What did you do in your orchard today?

[R2elk]

Merry Christmas!!!​

 

[CrealCritter]

Sowed saved peach pits into a 7 gallon pot. The ones that sprout will eventually become rootstocks for named peaches, plum, plumcots and aprocoits.

Jesus is Lord and Christ

 

[CrealCritter]

More on Monty's Surpise, I have a whip coming this spring. Monty's Surprise originated from New Zealand as a chance seedling found growing wild. Reseach has been preformed on the health and medical benefits of Monty's Surprise apple (contained within the following link).

Monty's Surprise Apple

Introduction In April 2000 Mark Christensen and friends discovered a unique seedling apple tree in a remote part of central North Island New Zealand. Mark and friends were on a road trip and came across an apple tree with apples that were big, clearly disease resistant, crisp and had a...

www.heritagefoodcrops.org.nz

From my further research... I discovered its suitable for my USDA 7. It's a tip bearing apple instead of the more common spur bearing type. It's also a triploid, meaning it's self sterile and needs two unique suitable pollinators close by. Suitable pollinators are Pinkabelle, Leprechaun, Golden Delicious, Red Delicious, Gala, Granny Smith, Crisps Pink (Pink Lady tm) and Red Fuji. I'm going to stick it inbetween a Crisps Pink and a Granny Smith and hope for the best.

Jesus is Lord and Christ

 

[CrealCritter]

Set out 4 cherries I grafted onto mazzard root stocks early this spring. One each bing, stella, surecrop (tm starkbros) and northstar. I need to set out one montmorency to complete the row. But I ran out of hardware cloth that I use for trunk guards. So much rain lately, dig a hole the bottom fills up with water, muddy mess... But they should wake up this spring in their permanent location and if I get mulch on them I won't need to babysit them near as much as if I planted them in spring.

Here's is a very good article on grafting and propagating fruit trees from penn state.

https://byfg.org/grafting_and_propagating_fruit_trees.pdf

Jesus is Lord and Christ

 

[CrealCritter]

Finished cherry row. Nice because most of them were grafted by me, so I saved some $$$ for sure.

Last montmorency, ground is saturated. No need to water when you dig a hole and the bottom fills up with water.

Best part of waking up

Planted in its final location.

13 Cherry trees in this row, spaced 18 foot apart. Mazzard root stock grows a full size cherry tree. I wanted vigor, so I plan to keep them manageable by hatchet, axe and saw.

Next row will also be cherries, need pollinating partners.

Jesus is Lord and Christ