my receipt said its on semi dwarf rootstock but doesnt say which.
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i went back onto his website. states semi dwarf are on m111 rootstock.
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I was just digging around, looks like you’re correct…semi-dwarf on M111. So far, M111 has proven as winter hardy here as B118.
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ive also read good reviews on m111.
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Here are the 10 Clark Crabapples cleft grafted on ( B9 rootstocks from Mike @39thparallel) 10 days ago and they started to buds out. Yeah 
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Tony
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If it’s good, I would like to try to get it to Russia, probably 70% of the population of Russia, lives in zone 4 or warmer.
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Those are very nice benchgrafts. I put a few Clark’s Crab on Bud 9 this Spring as well for out propagation orchard. I’m sure they will be in production in short order.
We got all the wood you sent grafted and are very excited to grow those varieties. The pears all took and we are waiting on the persimmon grafts to bud out.
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@clarkinks come talk to your apple tree, I just planted a whip from @39thparallel in April and it’s already trying to set fruit. What a precocious little tree!
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The first time it set fruit for me i knew it was something special. The apples began growing in clusters like grapes. My friend Mike who owns @39thparallel orchard began propagating the apple a few years later. Hope it does as well for you there as it does here in Kansas.
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I will likely pinch off any fruitlets this year and let it focus on growth. But, I’m surprised that it even is trying this early (2ish months after planting!). I look forward to trying it — hopefully — next year!
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planted mine the beg. of May. bigger than a whip. just leafing out now. got lots of goat/ rabbit bedding mulched around it. if it survives here likely it will survive most of the country.
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where you located Colin?
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In Minnesota, zone 4b.
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that should be a good test as you get quite a bit less snow and more wind than i do.
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I’ve got 4 fruit trees from 39th that I panned a month ago and they flowered!
I picked all the flowers off except 2 flowers on the Mantet on very large Bud 9 roots!
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I’m surprised by some of the trees this year. In addition to the Clark’s from 39th, my liberty and Rubinette from Cummins are both trying to flower. I still have to remove the flowers, but fun to see!
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I grafted 3 Clark’s Crabs last week thanks to the generous scion size sent by 39th Parallel.
It could be my imagination, but I could have sworn I saw a bit of green on one bud from one of the grafts I looked at this morning. That’d be an awfully quick take if my eyes didn’t deceive me.
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These apples are going to shock you! Raised as seedlings in Kansas they have a lot going for them.
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I’m just hopeful that at least one of my three grafts are successful. They’re all on some sort of standard rootstock (wild crab, wild apple, dolgo) so I’ll be curious to see if they’re winter hardy and how big they get.
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They are likely going to runt those big standard trees out with a heavy amount of apples before they get 15 feet tall. My suspicion is they will live in cold country fine. When they bloom i think you better leave the apple to find out when they ripen for you. It is normally cold here when i pick them. I’m wishing you the best with these apples. My hope is you are blessed with good things from them like cider , pie etc… They will likely be the last apples on the trees. They sure keep a long time. You will easily eat apples until the next spring.
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