You betcha.
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I should have included this pic as well. It has a bit better angle of the overall of the orchard than the above.
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Almost getting to that time of year where I can clear more on that front field and perhaps get some of my grafted trees in the ground! I think about mid January I will start digging and clearing again. I am so ready and hope to get some fruit this year because this past years late cold spell meant that it was a bust for meâŚ
I have already dug a few apple and pear tree sprouts and have them potted up and ready to grow some this year. I am going to graft to some of the ones that are left from last year and I also have a few peach tree sprouts that I will dig and transplant on some of my non-grafted peaches. Pruning will start in a few weeks for me as well.
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Will start thinking about going out into the apple orchard in a couple of weeks to start pruning if the weather is decent.
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Great to hear and I hope that the weather is good for you for this!
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A bit confused. I know we are in dormancy, but it seems early for this work for me. Can you describe your plan? When did you dig your sprouts? Dug rather than cut?
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I donât always have time for things and get sprouts when I can. As soon as leaf fall is over and I have time I scavenge when I can 
I pull them or cut them out out from around pear trees and a certain kind of apple tree that are at my in-laws 
then I take them home and pot them up or put them in a barrel with other things planted. Sometimes thing make it and sometimes they donât. Either way I have nothing to lose by doing this as it costs me nothing but time
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Beautiful tags!
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Hi Poncho, your potting mix looks good and it looks like you are having good results. How do you make your mix? It looks like pine bark fines are in there. What else?
Thanks
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I mostly use the cheap stuff in the bag 
I do add real dirt and sand sometimes but other than that it is just store bought
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Very resourceful @Poncho65. I should think more out of the box. Are the sprouts actually rooted? Should I leave some instead of cutting them out?
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Yes, they have roots and will be used as rootstock in the future hopefully The apple trees will come true to the tree that they are taken from as they are from nongrafted trees. The pears will definitely have to be grafted though.
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Well today was a great day for orchard projects! I planted 6 pear trees today up by the house close to my oldest pears trees. I also made permanent tags for all of these and the rest of my grafted trees. I had feared that the names of the varieties was lost on a few but I made out all of the writing and got them all labeled correctly. That was a big relief for sure. I also took a few apple tree sprouts of those Key Apples I have and replaced some other small sprouts that werenât doing quite as well as they should have. Then I cleaned up around several of my trees that have cages and then took some of the Peach tree sprouts around a couple of my non grafted peaches and moved a couple into my main orchard and then planted some of the others in my yard over by the woods. I just hope the deer leave them alone for long enough for me to put a cage around them.
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This is where the 6 grafted pears ended up that I had planted this past weekend. You can barely see them, tjey jave the orange flags beside them. They are beside the very first pear trees I planted and that is over beside my house and close to where my dog like to nap and sleep. So not a big worry about deer as much as other spots in my yard. I sure hope I donât regret saying that
They are just small whips right now but I am hopeful that these will be well established in a few years
There is a Korean Giant, Hood, Harrow Sweet, Harrow Delight, Orient and Seckel pear now beside the Kieffer and DâAnjou pears. So excited to try these in a few/couple years.
That does remind me to ask, how many years should.I be expecting to wait on these to fruit? They are on BET. Also I would like to thank @Auburn for these scions. He supplied me with all theae except Seckel, which I received from my father-in-law.
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Well, I have made my rootstock order to Burnt Ridge for this year! I have apple, pear and a few plum rootstocks coming! Now the wait⌠
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For those interested, I have
Bud118 for apple
Ussarian for pear
Myrobalan for plum
I wanted BET again for my pears but Burnt Ridge didnât have any for order this year 
I read that opinions go both ways on Ussarian, some say that it causes pear decline in European pears and some say it is fine⌠it is suppose to be excellent for Asian pears though
Thoughts?
I had extremely great success last year with Bud118 and was happy to get that again. I have never grafted plums, peaches or the like and hope that I have good success with those as well.
Also, could a person use peach sprouts to graft plum to as well?
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Busy digging some holes yesterday! I think I planted 1 blueberry bush that I had rooted from a cutting last year and about 27 apple and pear trees! After planting them I put cages around them to keep the deer from getting them. After they are bigger I will take the cages off as the deer never bother my bigger trees.
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