Nursery Pics

[greyphase]

Here's my nursery. The couple of tall tress are holdovers from last year. Grafted about 115 but have had some failures.

A couple of my "oddball" grafts.
Kestrel. A Canadian bred apple. New York Red Spy X Macoun Introduced 1950.

Isle of Wight Pippin. Introduced 1817 but probably much older. Late maturing apple

Loysburg. A local late hanging apple.

Bows & Bucks Greening. A late hanging greenish apple from B&B.

My pear failures. :mad:

A Stayman Winesap failure.

Over all I'm pretty happy with my success, but I know that a lot can still happen to these tender babies. o_O

 

[Turkey Creek]

I would say your pears were too wet or too dry. I have not had a graft fail at that point on a pear once they push that much growth. I have some droopy leaves, but not an entire healthy looking shoot just go limp like that. Pears are more sensitive than apples to soil moisture when they are young. Apples look good though. I only tried growing grafts in bags once and I failed miserably on all accounts.

 

[JERRED GRACEY]

My pears look like that too. It's been raining non stop

 

[buckvelvet]

Yeah its funny how we all high light our failures among the successes. It looks great Rick, nice job indeed!

 

[sandbur]

Last year I had 4 bench grafts in bags/buckets by the house. This year I grafted 13 and put all of them in their final location.


My trees are way behind yours.

 

[Turkey Creek]

Looks like you have been busy Sandbur. You could pinch those laterals off your root stock at this point and give all the energy to your scion.

Did you see the photos of your "Dog" series of crabapples I posted awhile back?

 

[greyphase]

I would say your pears were too wet or too dry. I have not had a graft fail at that point on a pear once they push that much growth. I have some droopy leaves, but not an entire healthy looking shoot just go limp like that. Pears are more sensitive than apples to soil moisture when they are young. Apples look good though. I only tried growing grafts in bags once and I failed miserably on all accounts.

The pears are so far a mystery to me. They don't seem too wet or too dry, their soil is the same as the apples beside them. The only luck I've had with pears was top working seedling pears that had been growing in their permanent location for several years.
I've had good luck with the grow bags.
It's funny how one thing works for one person but doesn't work for another. I think to some extent it has to do with each of us growing our trees in our own little microclimate.

That's a good looking graft Bur, for the zone your in.

 

[Turkey Creek]

I've had good luck with the grow bags.
It's funny how one thing works for one person but doesn't work for another. I think to some extent it has to do with each of us growing our trees in our own little microclimate.

I agree completely! Alot of the published bench grafting materials one reads are from sources typically in the north west where the majority of grafted trees originate. That is a completely different climate than almost all of us are in. Doesn't mean that we cant all be successful, just means we have to adjust and tweak things to fit us in other regions. Thats what I enjoy about this site and "GrowingFruit" easy to soak up info from lots of people and to add our own ideas.

Lots of people struggle to get bench grafted pears to grow, for me they have always done well. I graft them with the same technique as my apples, same technique as almost every one else uses. It must be the climate and/or soil.

 

[sandbur]

Looks like you have been busy Sandbur. You could pinch those laterals off your root stock at this point and give all the energy to your scion.

Did you see the photos of your "Dog" series of crabapples I posted awhile back?

I took those off this morning when I added cardboard and mulch around the tree. Thanks for mentioning it anyway.

I missed the dog series pictures but did prune some of the Dog's that resulted from top work last year.

 

[Turkey Creek]

I posted a thread called "Fruiit Blooms Pictures" in the Fruit Trees Section. I posted it awhile back. Really like the branch structure of the varieties and the I had a couple of varieties bloom this year. CAR has only infected a couple of the varieties and minimally at that.

 

[Bowsnbucks]

Rick - Good to see your grafts are doing well. I'm happy the " BnB Greening " is growing for you. Did the other late-hanging scions from up the road from my camp take ??

 

[greyphase]

Rick - Good to see your grafts are doing well. I'm happy the " BnB Greening " is growing for you. Did the other late-hanging scions from up the road from my camp take ??

Hey B&B

Yes I've got a B&B #2 & #3 growing very good.

 

[Bowsnbucks]

That's cool. I'd love to know what those " up the road " apples are. I don't know if there's a way to I.D. them by DNA or some other method. It would probably be an expensive proposition to have done, but it would be cool to know for sure if they're a known apple or a chance seedling that grew there.