Growing apple trees, grafting scions

[spud]

I have cut some scions of mustu (crispin), honey crisp, McIntosh with more varieties to come later. If anyone is interested in swaping scions let me know.

I would be more than happy mailing you and Scions I have. I plan to start pruning in a few weeks if the snow goes down. I have Honey Crisp, Liberty, Freedom, Frostbite, Wine Crisp,Northern Spy, Cortland, Ultra Gold, Zestar, Mac, Snappy Mac, Red Rome, Snow Sweet and Fortune. This year I will wax the ends and keep them damper. I don't need anything in return. I plan to graft some of my Freedom to some Red Rome this year.

Spud

[spud]

During the warm spell we just had I was able to start pruning my apple trees. I had 32 deer in my orchard the other night but they never touched a tree. I had just put another coat of deer repellient on the trees the other day. The trees are looking good and I hope to see good production from my 5 and 6 year old trees this year. I ordered 10 other fruit trees that will be delivered in early May. I am also trying a couple of Walnut trees this year. I ordered them from Starks. One is a English Walnut and the other is a Northern Prize Walnut. Has anyone ever tried growing walnuts this far North? They say these two verities do very well in Zone 4.

Spud

[MapleCamp]

I am getting all spur types this year. Wine crisp, yellow, ultra mac, and red rome, most are m26 root stock.

[Sinzibuckwud]

My gram has a couple English walnuts, they are doing very well, we are also zone 4.

[bowtie]

I have purchased many trees from starks including a few of their English walnuts, honestly I had one die, which they replaced, the others are not really doing that well. their apple trees have gotten crazy expensive , when you purchase between 50-100 year I can't see paying $25-35 each. I found a local Amish nursery that grafts their own trees that are much more reasonable and still have guarantee. I can purchase 50 apples trees that wind up costing $11.80 each and pick them up for free. The only reason I have not starting grafting my own is because these guys are so inexpensive and the quality of the trees appears outstanding. I actually have to send out my order this week. May still try grafting my own but not having tons of time or experience doing it, it's a no brained to order from them.

[MapleCamp]

Stark has a wholesale division I just bought 50 for 5.99 each you have to request their catolog.

[mainebackswoodssyrup]

Spud, what is the name of the repellent that you use? I just ordered my first 4 trees from Starks.

[spud]

Spud, what is the name of the repellent that you use? I just ordered my first 4 trees from Starks.

The product is called Plantskydd. It works very well.

Spud

[bowtie]

just got pricing from starks, much better than retail, but not interested in 1/4-1/2" whips. usually I get 5/8" or 3/4",with shipping at 20% the price between starks and the local nursery I deal with is very close. not saying I wont buy from starks but comparing a 1/4" whip and a 5-7ft ,3/4" caliper tree are not the same. 100 trees at 11.20 vs 100 at 9.59 plus 20%
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[MapleCamp]

I hear ya. I buy 50 whips a year put them in my nursery and baby them for 2-3 seasons then move to the orchard. It would be nice to plant 5-7 footer right away but this is what works for me. The shipping for the 50 whips always seems to be much less then the quoted 20 %.