Native Hunter Apples 2023

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My pears are also loaded with a heavy fruit set this spring. Some of my bark grafts I did a three years ago are even setting pears for the first time this year. I may prune most of the the fruit off them this year only leaving a couple to try but promote more growth of those grafts.

 

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My pears are also loaded with a heavy fruit set this spring. Some of my bark grafts I did a three years ago are even setting pears for the first time this year. I may prune most of the the fruit off them this year only leaving a couple to try but promote more growth of those grafts.

I bark grafted a Sweet Advent to a Callery last year, and this year it has set 4 pears. The growth on that tree has been remarkable. In one year, it is back as high as it was when I cut it off.

 

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I did several bark grafts on callery pears a couple years ago but completely topped them I lost them all. This year I did a bunch more but left nurse branches hopefully I have a better result this year. I didn’t add bird perch’s to the completely topped bark grafts a couple years ago so that may have been where I went wrong.

 

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I did several bark grafts on callery pears a couple years ago but completely topped them I lost them all. This year I did a bunch more but left nurse branches hopefully I have a better result this year. I didn’t add bird perch’s to the completely topped bark grafts a couple years ago so that may have been where I went wrong.

I took a cut piece of branch and tapped it to my trees where I had some fragile or exposed branches.

You can do a fraction of the tree one year and do the rest the next year or two. I grafted a bunch of kerr on a 3 yea old droptine on anty tree, left 3 nurse branches Going to cut the 2 branches and work one of them once the kerr's recover. Might need 2 years.

 

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Yes I left nurse branches this year on every one I did I think I did about 14 trees this year.

 

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Not sure if topworking is good or bad. Was looking at a dolgo on B118 and said ehhh. Didn't do anything to it, but was tempted.