lol, fertilized it with a whole wheelbarrow of compost and a half cup of bloodmeal, and it’s is a honey crisp. Thanks!
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This describes the issue with my Fuji. It’s a vigorous (tier 3) tree on a m111 rootstock. All it wants to do is grow. I prune it as minimally as I can, but it produces very few flowers and tons of vegetation. Basically I’m fighting a losing battle. Grafts are in its future.
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I mostly feed my apples/pears wood chips to slowly break down and some bone meal. Prune back the new growth hard once it’s started showing some terminal buds in August/September to encourage fruiting spur development. No point leaving four foot shoots of blind wood with just a half dozen leaves on them unless you’re growing a tree to sell scions or something.
Fuji is supposed to work particularly well with “Click Pruning.”
Honeycrisp is the “it’s not dying, it always looks like that”, so I wish you the best with it. 
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One of my newly planted cherry tree’s branch broke from the rain and wind.
So I was wondering is cherry wood just weak like that?
Does this kind of black bark indicate that a tree is rotting? I had some trunk protectors that may have been trapping moisture.
These are jujubes, but I also have some pears doing something similar
Thanks
Anyone know what I planted? I thought it was a mislabeled peony, but three more came up. (Plus the two peonies I was expecting.)
Looks like an allium. Maybe a leek. Does it smell like onions if you rip off a small piece of the leaf?
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I think the problem there is just that (I can’t think of a good way of explaining it😑) the branch that broke off wasn’t attached very well, because it was a long piece of quick growth that was only connected to the growth ring from last year(because it’s all last years growth).
This is my pluot or Aprium, can’t remember its name. It looks having lack of certain minerals issue judging by its leafs, but I can’t put my fingers on which mineral(s). I would like you to help me identify the problem so I can fix it. Thanks.
Looks about like the leaf shot disease that mine have.
Yes, it has shot hole issue too. Does the shot hole causes leafs having different green shades colors and red-ish edges 
I’m not sure exactly what causes that. I have seen the shot hole with the discoloration on a bunch of my trees, but I think both problems are related, at least I assume they are.
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Anyone have any idea what’s going on with my d’anju pear? Leaves look fine except for all the curling. Thanks!
Too much or too little water? It doesn’t look like the leaf curling I’d expect to find aphids under the leaves with.
Kiwi question:
Can the different kiwi species be grafted to each other? Possibly delay the Spring leaf out of the fuzzy ones in marginal areas with a hardier rootstock? I’m assuming arguta breaks bud later.
My Issai actually leafs out two weeks+ before Jenny, but both might be atypical examples of a fuzzy kiwi and an arguta.
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Has anyone used herbicides,like Roundup,nearby?
About a week ago my neighbor was spraying a bunch on his lawn, but none of my other trees were affected. But this leaf curling has hit a bunch of my raspberries further down my yard. Kind of stumped here
Some things are more sensitive to pesticide/herbicide drift.
I’ve read that herbicide drift can reach over 100ft out from where it’s sprayed. Also if your plants have roots near the spray area, it could be affected as well.
I may be wrong but i think herbicides affect pollinators too. Hence why they start dropping dead after it gets used nearby as well .
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I asked in a chestnut specific thread, but since I got no answer there: