Which one do you think is the most productive bush?

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Advice for ambitious newbie apple orchard

Some general advice- I think you are trying to do too much too quickly. I would try to scale down your rootstock order to maybe 250 or less instead of 1000. A thousand trees are going to demand more labor than you can supply unless you have done a bunch of planning and have invested in equipment that will reduce the labor requirement. Also you should try to do a test plot and figure out which scion, rootstocks and training systems are going to work for you. Something like 2 trees X 3 roots…

I am about finished with reading “So you want to start a nursery” and I would suggest it to you for your endeavors. There are a few other really good general recommendations in this thread if you haven’t read it yet.