The addiction is real... My name is Rich, Im a fruit tree hoarder

[Knehrke]

Oops thought I sent out a reply, most of the trees are under 4 years old from grafting so it will be awhile before these babies start producing let alone me thinking how Im going to blend them. Most of my mature apples are dessert/fresh eaters so we will see how they blend up. I was going to make a scratter but have decided to build a DIY grinder - SS hoper and feed tube into a food processing like cutting disk that will make a mash.... Press will be my large shop press pressing on a SS tub. Goal is cider - then hard cider and finally someday apple brandy.

Oooh, apple brandy! Road trip!

 

[cavey]

Oooh, apple brandy! Road trip!

We should have Some habitat talk get togethers across this country !

 

[Mozark]

We should have Some habitat talk get togethers across this country !

Hope you stop in the ozarks...

 

[sandbur]

Hope you stop in the ozarks...

First stop!


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[westonwhitetail]

(if the question was shot out to me) I do not have a favorite yet .... I did get a graft or to hold off that double P and 29 crab you told me about - never tasted one of the crabs off of it but I see she still holds crabs yearly.

Gotta be too hard to pick just one! Glad you got a couple from that tree, let me know how they turn out. I’ll have to do the same when I start grafting someday


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[bwoods11]

Well I finally did a rough list of my apple and crab trees apart from 10+ish varieties I planted first that I lost my map to years ago. I had over 124 varieties of sorts on the list tonight. Some are wild apples *, some are old farmstead apple trees, some have typos on the tag **, and some are known varieties that I just plain lost track of. Many/most are just babies but some are mature large trees now. I got 60 plus out of the nursery this spring and have them all staked, screened and cage... I need to spray the ground and this year I swear Im going to paint the lower trunks white on everyone of them. I have a few areas left I want to ring with trees and one area out back Im going to grow old and hunt the hell out of - watch the trees grow and rain down fruit around me in my old age kind of stand area. In the future as they grow I will have a mess of scion to offer up, It will be a few years.

but I have proof that I have a serious grafting problem >

American Pippin
Antonovka Rootstock apple
Arkansas Black apple
Ashmeads Kernel
*Auction Block apple
Awesome apple (known but lost variety name)
Bessemiaka Michurin
B118 Rootstock apple
Black Ben Davis apple
Braeburn apple
Bramley Seedling apple
Browns apple
Browns Snout apple
Calville Blanc apple
*Casper crab
Chestnut crab
Court Pendu Plat apple
Cox Orange Pippin
Dabinett
D'Arcy Spice apple
*DNR Yellow crab
Dolgo crab
Duchess of Oldenburg Apple
Empire apple
Esopus Spitzenburg
Fireside apple
*Fleming Red apple
Foxwhelp apple
Frostbite apple
Fuji Red Sport apple
Golden Hornet
Golden Russet
Goldrush apple
Goodview Osel apple
sweet bough
Gozda Green apple (old farmstead apple)
*Gozda Lake bank crab
Grimes Golden apple
Harry Masters apple
Hawkeye apple
Hawiia apple
Home crab (Ornamental)
Honeycrisp apple
Honeygold apple
Hospital crab ornamental
Hospital crab better ornamental
Huaguan apple
Jonalicious apple
Kerr crab
Kingston Black apple
**Korja de sun
*Kulzer’s Best apple
*Kulzer 2” apple
*Kuester crab
*Kuester Cow crab
*Late Osel apple
Liberty apple
Linda Sweet apple
*Little Cleaver (M. Osel) crab
LL farmstead apple (old farmstead apple)
*Mandy’s Find apple (late)
Medaille d'or apple
Michellin apple
Mollie’s Delicious apple
*Mousel Big Side apple
*Mousel Other apple
*Mousel Small Side apple
NeverBlight apple
Northwood apple
Northern Spy apple
Pink Pearl apple
Pippin
Pipsqueak apple
Pitmaston Pineaple apple
*PP crab (late)
Professor Sprenger crab
Pumpkin Sweet apple
Reinette Simirenko apple
Red Field apple
Red October apple
Roxbury Russet apple
Saint Edmonds Russet
*Scott Osel Wild Hill apple
Scugog apple
Sekai Ichi apple
*Smeston Small crab
Smokehouse apple
Snowsweet
Sops of Wine
Spartan apple
Stoke Red apple
Sweet Bough apple
Sweet 16 apple
Suiki apple
Tydeman red apple
*Tiny Timm crab
*Titty Bar apple (Hill-Top strip joint bar tree)
Tolman Sweet apple
Trailman apple
*Trespass apple
*Unpleasant View apple
UW Stout HS weeping crab
Vista Bell apple
Watermelon apple
*Welstein Road (Keyes) apple
*Welstein Hill (Keyes) apple
White Cloud apple
Whitney crab
William’s Pride apple
Winecrisp apple
Winter Banana apple
Wolf River apple
**Xanto apple
**Xaino apple
** xanthocarpa apple
Yellow apple (known desert apple but lost name)
Yellow Newtown Pippin
*Yellow Swamp crab (Mousel (late))
Zestar
1st Row crab (know crab ?)
2nd Row crab (known crab?)
3rd Row crab (known crab?)
*320 Loaded crab
*320 ½ & ½ crab
70 acre RS apple

Can we get an update ? Which trees have done the best ??

 

[cavey]

Can we get an update ? Which trees have done the best ??

Thats a good question, I was out moving a handful of apple trees this prior week. Pulling trees from my nursery trying to reclaim what was once my garden out at the farm. Transplanting them in the few spaces i have left open. Im far less technical than a few on here, I hoarded a bunch of scion for a few years. Kept many too long in the nursery as I tried to do about 4 scion grafts of each variety just to ensure that I got trees in the end. I was hoping for 2 of each type.
I truly ended up with more trees than I should have - spent a small fortune on stakes cages and window screen.

I think an update of sorts is a good idea - I should take that list and grab my maps and add the 20 or so trees I just moved out and tally everything. Most are still pretty young. There have been some bombs and some that have impressive growth. I know some of my cider trees have struggled - kingston black which is a zone 5 and we are a zone 4b has sucked as did Professor Sprenger crab also a zone 5.

My brain kind of hurts thinking about it but its a good idea.... I kind of did the fire and forget method apart from the screen/cage/stake/spray most of the trees have had to survive on their own. I do prune and cut back but watering no so much.

 

[cavey]

Thats a good question, I was out moving a handful of apple trees this prior week. Pulling trees from my nursery trying to reclaim what was once my garden out at the farm. Transplanting them in the few spaces i have left open. Im far less technical than a few on here, I hoarded a bunch of scion for a few years. Kept many too long in the nursery as I tried to do about 4 scion grafts of each variety just to ensure that I got trees in the end. I was hoping for 2 of each type.
I truly ended up with more trees than I should have - spent a small fortune on stakes cages and window screen.

I think an update of sorts is a good idea - I should take that list and grab my maps and add the 20 or so trees I just moved out and tally everything. Most are still pretty young. There have been some bombs and some that have impressive growth. I know some of my cider trees have struggled - kingston black which is a zone 5 and we are a zone 4b has sucked as did Professor Sprenger crab also a zone 5.

My brain kind of hurts thinking about it but its a good idea.... I kind of did the fire and forget method apart from the screen/cage/stake/spray most of the trees have had to survive on their own. I do prune and cut back but watering no so much.

I bumped something on the key board and it posted so forgive the typos - but yes I need to do an update. Thanks for the bump and reminder to post. I need to do an inventory and make notes so this is a good excuse to do that. I got out and pruned every tree I have on the main farm this spring. I have about 40 older trees on another smaller property near by that I neglected and are in need of some TLC. But I should be able to give an opinion on the trees that are out in their final places.