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.

 

[Native Hunter]

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.

 

[b116757]

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.

 

[Native Hunter]

This is what my pear topworking is looking like so far this year. As you can see, I already have my cane bracing up. Better too early than too late. This one is growing fast and might have already broken off in the strong wind yesterday without the bracing.

PS - this one has been changed to Olympic Giant.

 

[Bowsnbucks]

You like those Olympic Giants, don't you??!! I guess that's why you recommended one to me.

 

[Native Hunter]

You like those Olympic Giants, don't you??!! I guess that's why you recommended one to me.

Yes, here are the things I like about them:

1. They drop fairly late
2. Delicious taste
3. Very disease resistant
4. Large sized fruit
5. Despite large sized fruit the limb structure is much stronger than most pears. No limb breaking going on like with some others.

 

[Native Hunter]

Six years ago I planted this Keener Seedling (aka Rusty Coat) on MM111 from Century Farm Orchards. I never gave it any special attention (other than caging) after planting, and don’t even remember if I watered it the first year. The tree grew well but hadn’t flowered much until this year.

As of today, it is loaded with fruit, and every limb looks like the pic below. This is supposed to be a very late apple, which could be the perfect drop time for my area.

I will be watching and reporting back later.

 

[Buckhunter10]

Six years ago I planted this Keener Seedling (aka Rusty Coat) on MM111 from Century Farm Orchards. I never gave it any special attention (other than caging) after planting, and don’t even remember if I watered it the first year. The tree grew well but hadn’t flowered much until this year.

As of today, it is loaded with fruit, and every limb looks like the pic below. This is supposed to be a very late apple, which could be the perfect drop time for my area.

I will be watching and reporting back later.

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Your fruit trees always amaze me! Great work buddy!