greyphase
5 year old buck +
I counted 75 living grafts this morning in the nursery. I grafted onto 75 B118's, 25 G-30's and 8 M111 this spring. Not a horrible average I guess, but my failures seem to be with the rootstock not growing. Just about every graft pushed out growth but the one's that died never pushed out any growth from the rootstock. Just an unanswered mystery from the nursery. I have had near 100% success with my limb grafts onto the wild apple trees growing around the place and should be able to get scion from these to replace most of the failed benchgrafts.
A mystery from the orchard is the death of 9 trees planted in the fall of 2014 and 2015. They leafed out this spring and then suddenly died about the 1st week of June. I haven't dug them up yet to try to figure out the cause.
An observation that surprised me in the orchards was the precociousness of some of my B118 trees. Planted in the fall of 2014 I had some bear fruit last spring and have even more bearing fruit this year. I only let 1 to 3 apples on a tree so as not to stunt their growth. I also planted about 20 G202 trees in the old pasture above the house at the same time and none of these have bore any fruit even though they are touted as being early bearing.
There's always something to learn or ponder on with this apple tree growing hobby we're all addicted too. :)
A mystery from the orchard is the death of 9 trees planted in the fall of 2014 and 2015. They leafed out this spring and then suddenly died about the 1st week of June. I haven't dug them up yet to try to figure out the cause.
An observation that surprised me in the orchards was the precociousness of some of my B118 trees. Planted in the fall of 2014 I had some bear fruit last spring and have even more bearing fruit this year. I only let 1 to 3 apples on a tree so as not to stunt their growth. I also planted about 20 G202 trees in the old pasture above the house at the same time and none of these have bore any fruit even though they are touted as being early bearing.
There's always something to learn or ponder on with this apple tree growing hobby we're all addicted too. :)