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- Sun Feb 21, 2016 9:12 pm
- Forum: Apples, Cider and Variety and Other Fruit Questions
- Topic: Beautiful Frankentree
- Replies: 2
- Views: 12328
Re: Beautiful Frankentree
Isn't that merely a proposed tree that he wants to build?
- Sun Feb 21, 2016 9:10 pm
- Forum: Apples, Cider and Variety and Other Fruit Questions
- Topic: Hidden Rose Apple (East Coast?)
- Replies: 1
- Views: 8769
Re: Hidden Rose Apple (East Coast?)
Nice pic!
On the west coast it grows pretty much like that picture. Tasty apple, that. Probably the tastiest of the red fleshes, actually has more than tartness.
On the west coast it grows pretty much like that picture. Tasty apple, that. Probably the tastiest of the red fleshes, actually has more than tartness.
- Sun Feb 21, 2016 9:02 pm
- Forum: Fruit Trees and Orchard Maintenance
- Topic: Cows vs. Random Wild Baby Apple Trees
- Replies: 0
- Views: 10428
Cows vs. Random Wild Baby Apple Trees
"The cows continue to browse seedling apple trees thus for twenty years or more, keeping them down and compelling them to spread, until at last they are so broad that they become their own fence, when some interior shoot, which their foes cannot reach, darts upward with joy; for it has not forg...
- Sun Feb 21, 2016 8:59 pm
- Forum: Fruit Trees and Orchard Maintenance
- Topic: Grafting pear onto hawthorne
- Replies: 6
- Views: 18012
Re: Grafting pear onto hawthorne
Please note, Enzoastro, that the medlar will at some point vastly overgrow the hawthorn, and a good windstorm will break your whole graft off. Speaking of graft union above ground. If you have buried the union, the medlar should eventually self root.
- Wed Dec 10, 2014 1:53 pm
- Forum: Apples, Cider and Variety and Other Fruit Questions
- Topic: Lyons Sweet
- Replies: 1
- Views: 6974
Re: Lyons Sweet
Nick Botner in Oregon has/had one called Lyon. Might be the same one.
www.slant.com/orchard/Botner-2012.PDF
www.slant.com/orchard/Botner-2012.PDF
- Wed Dec 10, 2014 1:40 pm
- Forum: Apples, Cider and Variety and Other Fruit Questions
- Topic: Nutritional question
- Replies: 2
- Views: 8864
Re: Nutritional question
It depends on what nutrient you are interested in I suppose. Some apples are quite high in sugars some high in acids or tannins, polyphenols, anthocyanins, course cellulosic fiber, pectin, et set era! You are probably beginning to realize that these are good google search terms when used with the wo...
- Wed Dec 10, 2014 1:32 pm
- Forum: Apples, Cider and Variety and Other Fruit Questions
- Topic: root cellar
- Replies: 8
- Views: 20901
Re: root cellar
How about apple juice concentrate with vodka added for the octane?
Is this a good workaround?
Is this a good workaround?
- Tue Dec 09, 2014 8:15 pm
- Forum: Apples, Cider and Variety and Other Fruit Questions
- Topic: Poor Crops
- Replies: 2
- Views: 9366
Re: Poor Crops
Sorry to hear that.
On the west coast we had a pretty normal crop of apples & pears, and a bumper crop of plums.
On the west coast we had a pretty normal crop of apples & pears, and a bumper crop of plums.
- Tue Dec 09, 2014 8:13 pm
- Forum: Apples, Cider and Variety and Other Fruit Questions
- Topic: bellefleur kransy?
- Replies: 1
- Views: 7423
Re: bellefleur kransy?
Were the trees in some kind of intentional planting?
Or perhaps a stray bird or racoon planted seedling beside the road? Kinda helps to know.
Or perhaps a stray bird or racoon planted seedling beside the road? Kinda helps to know.
- Tue Dec 09, 2014 7:54 pm
- Forum: Apples, Cider and Variety and Other Fruit Questions
- Topic: root cellar
- Replies: 8
- Views: 20901
Re: root cellar
Nice post Sherwood!
- Tue Dec 09, 2014 7:52 pm
- Forum: Fruit Trees and Orchard Maintenance
- Topic: Question about apple fruits
- Replies: 1
- Views: 7906
Re: Question about apple fruits
Looks like russet to me. Did you have particularly wet weather soon after pollination?
Some apples are rough and brown all over and russet is usually part of their name!
Some apples are rough and brown all over and russet is usually part of their name!
- Tue Dec 09, 2014 7:48 pm
- Forum: Apples, Cider and Variety and Other Fruit Questions
- Topic: scion trade this winter?
- Replies: 1
- Views: 7244
Re: scion trade this winter?
Nice collection!
You dont say where you are. I might have tried to rescue the same old mans pear for him last spring at the Canby scion exchange. Maybe the same guy?
Are you in the PNW?
You dont say where you are. I might have tried to rescue the same old mans pear for him last spring at the Canby scion exchange. Maybe the same guy?
Are you in the PNW?
- Tue Dec 09, 2014 7:42 pm
- Forum: Apples, Cider and Variety and Other Fruit Questions
- Topic: Apple Varieties true from Seed ?
- Replies: 3
- Views: 12312
Re: Apple Varieties true from Seed ?
I think I've heard that Beautiful Arcade throws more or less uniform progeny.
- Tue Jun 17, 2014 5:42 pm
- Forum: Fruit Trees and Orchard Maintenance
- Topic: Grafting pear onto hawthorne
- Replies: 6
- Views: 18012
Re: Grafting pear onto hawthorne
You can t-bud but that still depends on bark slipping, so you could still do your bark graft. I like doing a whip and tongue even when sizes of wood are totally out of whack. Moisture loss is your enemy in any case. Cover scion with school glue after completing your graft this time of year. Buds wil...
- Fri Jun 13, 2014 4:12 pm
- Forum: Fruit Trees and Orchard Maintenance
- Topic: Grafting pear onto hawthorne
- Replies: 6
- Views: 18012
Re: Grafting pear onto hawthorne
I do this graft routinely, whip and tongue style mostly, but if the scion is too small and the hawthorn stock largish, I merely do a bark graft. Cover the entire scion with Doc Farewell glue or even school glue when finished grafting, binding and plugging air holes with kids modeling clay. Some comb...