Let’s see your Northern whitetail crabs growth!

This spring, I bought three trees from NWC, a Crossbow, 30-06 and Droptine. I started these trees in a pot for the few months, then I will transplant them in the fall to a wildlife orchard. The soil in the posts consists of 4 parts sandy loam, 1 part peat moss, and 1 part Miracle Grow potting soil. I pruned the back all the trees, but I leave 4” to 6” of the stem to act as a “post” to tie off the new leader and keep it growing straight upward.

The growth of each tree varied wildly. The 30-06 doubled in height, adding 44" of new growth. The Crossbow grew well too, adding 24” over the summer. The Droptine was a bit disappointing compared to the other two trees, struggling to add a very weak 12” even including the top which is dying back. Also, of the three, only the Droptine showed evidence of CAR. My guess is that these trees will all do just fine after a few years. But this is what I saw in year one.


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I was sick with the Covid for 2 weeks and didn't get out to check on my trees. Today I noticed some Japanese beetle damage on most of my crabapples....HOWEVER one of my 30-06 crabs planted in 2020 was pretty much bare with all the leaves gone !!!. Any chance this tree survive and come back in the spring or will it die ?
How did your trees turn out? I sprayed mine and they ended up putting some nice growth on since.
 
Wow. There's some nice looking NWC growth on here.

Someone asked what the trees delivered look like.

The larger group of 7 is 30-06,crossbow,enterprise, and liberty on B118 which he pretty much only sells.

I asked him about zone 3 planting and offered me 2 droptine and 2 30-06 on antonovka bareroots. Planted 3 up north, but really wanted some droptine at home, so one is out back. Very good looking roots for what's considered anty rootstock. Not sure if he's formally offering, or just tryin them out.

Giving a few turkey creek big dogs a try up in zone 3 this spring too. Since my bareroots got attacked, I expanded the turkey creek order.

Terry was very helpful and resonsive on emails. Trees looked good and had 5-7ft height. He gave me a few scions and gave me a tree or two with a double leader that I can use for scions too. Shipping seemed somewhat reasonable too, although not cheap for any of these guys today.
 

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As per the club president, so caging up at ADK camp. I did put 3ft girdle guard mesh on it, hope he doesn't mind. We have a healthy snowshoe hare population. Took a bunch of branches and meshed them together for a twing cage. Tied together them here n there too. Spot gets a good bit of light. Although anywhere can be wrecked by a logging skidder.
 

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