Here is a yahoo group where you can trade scion with others
http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/scionexchange/

The sulfur dioxide will leave a bad taste in the finished cider if too much is used. The experienced cider people say "better to use to little than to much".

No, I do not want "Brett", as to much will spoil the cider. I used a half-dose of sulfur dioxide to kill the "bad" yeasts.

Pressed my first batch of apples from orchard started in 2008. Had enough to fill one 6 gallon carboy. I've spent the last several years reading every book I could find on making cider, but this is my first attempt. I am attempting to make a wild yeast ferment; if there are not enough wild yeasts fo...

Next late winter/early spring, pierce the bark just above a bud with a pocket knife. This will cause bud to branch.

Both Ark Black and Spitz are great apples.

M111 is doing well for me in western Ill. Soil is clay loam. I have started some trees on b118, but its to early to determine results.

1) Graft 150 more antique apples, increasing my # of varieties from ~ 30 to ~ 50.
2)dig up, plant and cage ~ 75 apple trees grafted last year
3) Prune, train, etc.
4)Hopefully, with enough production from by trees planted in 2008, try my hand at fermenting cider for the first time.

Here is a link of cider variety descriptions. I started a cider orchard 5 years ago, acquiring my initial trees from Vintage Virginia Apples, and had very positive experiences with them.

http://www.vintagevirginiaapples.com/cidervarieties.htm

buds survived in western Illinois

Here in the states, B118 works well in the northern cold climates.

I started my orchard with one year old whips; now I am expanding it with grafts from the original trees. Its a lot cheaper buying 300 grafts than buying 300 whips. You may need to grow the grafts in a nursery for a year, then transplant to orchard as one year whips.

how about asmeads kernal?

they look similar to my my golden russets which produced for first time this year.

Cut strips out of aluminum cans with tin snips, & scribe the description with a sharp awl, nail, etc. Poke a hole in each, and hang with aluminum or stainless wire.