Red Devil is a great one, always reliable. Mine had a rough spring with the late frosts but the ones that made it through look promising. Fingers crossed the June drop isn’t too brutal this year.
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Maybe it is Bud9 then. I am suspicious because I found some of the crumpled up old metal tags on the rest of the 20 trees from that order and some were M9. About 6 of this order has produced these roots so fa, mostly during drought stress
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Sorry about you losing your fruit. I also lost all my fruit as well here in SW Ohio. We had at least three freezes/frost nights all about the same time everything was blooming. A couple of my trees the blooms were completely fulling blooming out. They look pitiful as they can be. I have never seen them look this horrible in the 13 years I have been growing these trees.
Maybe better luck next year.
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Here are pictures of the apple trees-
Honeycrisp, planted in a bit of black cow mixed with native soil and mulched around a week to two weeks ago, buds are starting to turn red with a few having a little bit of green but largely just a stick still
Gala, planted in the same manner and time as the honeycrisp, starting to show signs of life
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Went to a century farm today (Mildred Kanipe Park and Ranch) and noticed several trees with these props. Round locust fence posts with a flat-ish wooden bracket at the top.
Most of the trees had hollow trunks and significant dead branches, but they were all, more than a hundred years later, producing fruit.
I bought 3 scions of “Kanipe red flesh” and found the real name of the fruit on a placard. Nick Botner grafted some of these, too.
Kanipe Beauty.
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That is cool!
If you enlarge the bottom picture you can read the sign… pretty cool since I live in Oregon but bought my scion from Hocking Hills.
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I love the idea that some of the apples on Antonovka I’m planting now might look like that in 100 years.
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Cole,
All your new apple trees need pruning now for their better future.
Check out this pruning guide.
We also has the Guide category here that you can look up.
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I had a good set of apples - my Fuji overset - but they don’t look good now after the late frosts. Gotta wait and see. Some pear fruitlets are black and shriveled now, others not.
Darren,
Glad to hear that Burgundy Blush is taking off for you.
My graft of it last year on Bud 9 grew about 2 feet, this spring that 2 feet is all feathered out with side shoots.
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Was looking. I have Burgundy Blush on P.2, M111, Bud.10 and P.18. There should be something to it’s liking.
Was surprised to find 4 ratty looking M26 rootstocks still going. I will graft some Anna on them for kicks.
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most of my apples are loaded this year and will need thinning a bit.
the trailman in particular has a lot on it.
wickson and ark black are the exceptions with only one or two clusters.
gravenstein loaded
winter banana more than it should have, and this Gideon graft has a few, as well as the braeburn it’s on
ark Black is dropping the fruitlets but that is ok, i can wait another year for it. my lamb abbey graft had a few flowers earlier but didn’t keep them yet. it’s a few feet tall now!
a zeibergau reinette graft did the same and it’s only from last year.
Chestnut has a good handful too.
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Thinning this week. My Fuji especially was overloaded.
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Pretty sure my big Fuji is dead. Grafted a few Fuji luckily.
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What caused it?
Fireblight.
I think I’m going to have to remove Reine Des Reinettes, right now 90% of the fireblight in my orchard is on those trees. Ah well. I’ll miss the flavor but I won’t miss the fireblight and rots at all.
I am starting to thin now, I wait a long time to let the curculio do its business. The curculio seems to be winding down, I haven’t seen any new damage in almost a week. It’s been a good year for me on that front, last year I had tons of damage but very little this year. The main problem is some varieties took heavy frost damage on the fruitlets, and they now have these grooves in them. Most of the varieties are fine, maybe a fifth of them have this frost damage. Its just cosmetic so I will keep some of them.
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