Another bit of info, I got aluminum and stainless steel tape. Used the whole aluminum first and it’s far superior, the stainless steel bends too much in like a crinkly manner around the letters. So stick with the aluminum imo
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This is awesome! Thank you!
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Nice. Grafted my first set of Dolgo Crabapple scions last month. Williams pride is first to actually start to bear fruits for me (Grafted in 2023).
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Duchess D’Angouleme. I planted this tree last year, it got munched by cows and survived the great drought and is still trying to bloom
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That’s good to know. Dolgo started blooming for me about 10 days ago. Williams Pride and another early variety called Wynoochee just started in the last couple days.
They’re only in the 3rd year in the ground, this is the first year we’re getting blooms. I did my best guess to get varieties for overlapping and sequential blooms and harvest times. If all goes to plan we’ll have apples from early August to early December. So far, it’s working out!
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Going to be lots of goumi berries… those larger blossoms are from graft of carmine.
My lapins cherry (planted in 2018) has finally bloomed well and set fruit. Could be the year for first fruit.
My EU Plum Mt Royal… also planted in 2018… is looking promising this year for first fruit.
We could still get a hard frost too… hope not.
TNHunter
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7 years! Oh man, I was starting to hope my Mt Royal might fruit a little this year, its third leaf since planting. It’s got another few weeks before any bud opening though.
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@slartibartfast … I have been hoping mine would fruit for 5 years or so.
2 years ago it had just 4 ot 5 blossoms open… no fruit set.
Last year probably 50 blossoms and some fruit set… but it all dropped off by June.
This year I have more hope than ever… looking good so far.
TNHunter
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Serviceberries are the first to bloom for me! not counting a potted blueberry that went into full bloom a month ago and now is covered in berries, because that’s whack; in ground blues just starting to open flowers here (not pictured). Also, excited to see my aronia Vikings are getting ready to flower for the first time. And, have to throw in a non-fruit picture of a woodland native called trillium that I thought my dog killed last spring but voila! Here they are and man are they cool.
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Does anyone know what a pollinated plum / apricot looks like? Did this flower get pollinated? I am too impatient to wait a few weeks to find out lol.
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On a similar note, I also can’t wait to see what’s going to happen here 
A sour cherry too and planted almost exactly a year ago.
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yes, you can see the fruitlet developing.
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Yay I’ll finally try my first ume plums!
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Don’t get too excited yet, there can be early drops. But you probably will get some fruit at least.
I found a few fruitlets forming on my apricots today. The Persian apricots have lots of dud blooms (no fruit forming) but there are at least 20% good ones.
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GoldRush scraps I grafted onto the tops of last year’s Bud 9 rootstocks. I didn’t graft any spurs, but it’s keeping its “precocious” reputation.
Yoinashi tree. Didn’t realize my camera was focused on the honeyberries behind them. Lots of flowers about to open up on it.
Shinseiki isn’t far behind.
Baby Shipova on Quince is budding out. Hopefully it’s compatible?
Thomasville Citrangequat from Madison immediately grew several flowers. I’m going to cover it in the Winter and hope it can survive up here.
This year’s nursery row. Just out of frame is a Clark’s crab on B9. CC and Jonafree on G935 were the only two apple grafts I didn’t accidentally kill off last year with mites from starting the trees indoors for two and a half months. They’re both looking good. I like G935, but went with G202 because I was grafting weird stuff and have no idea whether any of them have latent viruses. I think I’ll have a harder time killing more vigorous trees, too. Or that’s my theory, anyway.
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