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Apple tree growing from seed12/5/2023 Might make a good place to hunt in the future as well. Will take longer to mature, but I will take less time on pruning/shaping, and just focus on protecting the bark and growth tips in the near-term. I'm guessing they will need individualized protection for the first 5 years, but then after that just plan on having everything within browse level being pruned by wildlife. Taking a cue from that, I've determined that I will keep my berries and any trees which need special bear protection in the orchard (bears will climb peach and nectarine trees, for example, and the trees can't handle their weight.) But I'm hoping to get standard size fruit and nut trees and plant a wildlife/human orchard on a separate hilltop. A neighboring cattle pasture has cherry, plum, various nuts, figs, and full-size pear and apple trees (mostly apples) which are decades old and open to wildlife and cattle browsing. But sometime in August, the deer and elk made it into the orchard and ate every single green leaf in sight (except for the four figs.) We've regrouped and are now using a myriad of fence posts sourced from the surrounding landscape to start to put up protection around each tree. I had persimmons and apples, in particular, on the list along with chestnuts and walnuts for the coming nursery splurge. We've added raspberries, more gooseberries, a couple of olives and almond trees along with a few other goodies. We have a young orchard in Oregon which is supposedly deer fenced and is about an acre is size. I've rethought my entire strategy regarding fruit and nuts last summer/early fall. (As a final note, these photos aren't mine - as usual, click to see the source.) Rootstocks - how did your trees turn out? I'd be very curious to hear from anyone who's used seedlings as Vigorous seedling when it comes time to weed out your planting. Varieties (like crabapples, self-pollinated Cox's Orange Pippin, Lady, and spur-type Winter Banana and York ), or if you choose the least It seems to me you could also get at least a little bit of dwarfingĪction from seedling rootstocks if you choose seeds from less vigorous Although I've never heard anyone else say this, After grafting, these experimenters get a tree with no Tree to grow, then will weed out all but the most vigorous specimen a People will plant a dozen or more seeds where they want the eventual You've got the space for standard trees, you might plant seeds forĪnother reason - to serve as rootstocks to be grafted onto. Either way, expect only about 30% germination, Your seeds directly in the ground right now, allowing them to go throughĪ normal winter. Start to see sprouts, I'll transfer the seeds to a pot, and then,Īlternatively, you can get the same stratification effect by planting Apple seeds need at least a month of cold stratification, so the bag will go in the fridge,Īnd I'll start checking on it weekly after the month is up. Seeds in a labeled ziplock bag surrounded by a damp rag (or paper towel Home! Here's what I plan to do - put each batch of cleaned apple Varieties, and I'm most interested in off-spring of these disease-resistant apple varieties. Is often a crabapple, included in the planting to fertilize the named Less interested in store-bought apples because the father in that case Possible fathers (other apple trees close to your tree). If you're interested with the name of the mother variety and the Variety after you if you're the source of the seeds. Interesting seeds to start my planting, and I promise to name the new Variety worth keeping, and I'd definitely plant many, many fewer.īut it's more fun that going to Vegas - my kind of gambling. Pros tend to plant somewhere between 10,000 and 50,000 seeds to get one Graft its scionwood onto a smaller rootstock. Worth experimenting with further, I can either transplant the tree or Might still be five or more years before I'd get a taste of theseĮxperimental trees, but that still gives me time for many apple That test orchard to try out seedling genetics? Presumably, it So I started pondering - could I plant seeds threeįeet apart as if I were making a high-density apple planting, then use Need to be planted at least 30 feet apart.īut then I started playing with high-density methods,Īnd learned that judicious pruning and training can make even large I figured I'd have to set aside an absurd amount of space for theĮxperiment since each tree would be a standard apple, meaning they'd I've wanted to plant some apple seeds and see if my toss of the dice Ever since I read the apple chapter in The Botany of Desire ,
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