Three year old golden delicious

[bigmike]

I grafted this three years ago off a 60 year old tree from my home place. Pretty exciting!

 

[bigmike]

I planted 6 trees beside my house. They get full sun all day. 5 of the 6 were loaded with blooms. One of them is the crabapple i had to cut the top out of.

 

[bigmike]

Oh the tree to the left in the picture is an american chestnut that i picked up from the VDOF nursery as a bare root seedling. three years old, almost 7 feet tall. When i get old i'll be cursing the day i planted it!

 

[Turkey Creek]

Looking good! If alll those blossoms take you had better thin the fruit a bit that is going to be a heavy load. What rootstock is the golden delc. on?

 

[buckvelvet]

Oh the tree to the left in the picture is an american chestnut that i picked up from the VDOF nursery as a bare root seedling. three years old, almost 7 feet tall. When i get old i'll be cursing the day i planted it!

Why? I just planted one, curious...

 

[aerospacefarmer]

Awesome pic of that golden delicious I hope I can say the same thing as you from some of the grafts I did this year I am sure its very rewarding. Heck I am feeling good with just some leaf break on my grafts LOL

 

[bigmike]

BV
just the cleanup aspect when the tree matures and starts dropping all the husks. I'm excited about them doing so well. I have one thats about ten feet tall.

 

[bigmike]

The rootstock i think is M111 and i'm in Virginia.

 

[Maya]

Nice BM! Don't let it fruit and train the branches some, but it looks great!

 

[bigmike]

What do I do to train the branches and I just pick the fruit off?

 

[Maya]

Anything, twine, 14 guage wire, or buy commercial trainers etc.. Anything to get the branches growing out on a 60 degree angle. They will fruit sooner and the branches will not go up and try and grow up and try to compete w/ the central leader. You'll get a lot more growth out of that leader if you do.

http://www.peachridge.com/treetraining/training.htm

 

[bigmike]

Thanks, i will do that to these 6 trees