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Planting trees
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grunt soldier
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buy one of the big 275 gallon tanks with the faucet in the bottom. put it in the back of your truck drive to each tree.
anyone know how many pollinators I need for my trees? I have 4 apple trees. 1 pollinator and the other 3 for apples. is that enough? the 3 apple tree's are basically in a circle triangle with the pollinator in the center of those 3. do I need another pollinator?
got 3 cherry trees that are going into the ground tomorrow hopefully.
Every apple tree you have is a pollinator for the apple trees around it. What specific trees do you have. For example, do you have Red Delicious, Granny Smith, Gala, Fuji, McIntosh, Honey Crisp, etc.... Each breed of apple tree flowers at a different time throughout the year. There is some overlap with bloom times, but you will always be well served to know exactly what type of apple tree you've got and make sure that there is a balance of bloom times.
For example in my backyard, I've got the following apple trees:
(1) Fuji
(1) Yellow Delicious
(3) Honey Crisp
(1) Red Delicious
(2) Granny Smith
(2) McIntosh
(2) Gala
(2) Apple Cocktail with 5 different breeds grafted onto the same tree.
With a variety like what I've got here, there really isn't going to be any gaps in the pollinating season for fruit production. I chose to go the route of having more and more apple producing trees to pollinate, but keep in mind you could put a crabapple out there and it'd help pollinate your trees as well. Some apple trees only pollinate a few, and some pollinate about all the trees out there. It's best to make sure you've got a couple pollinating slut trees out there to make sure everything produces.
grunt soldier
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I have 3 honey crisp and 1 Johnathons. I know it pollinates the honey crisp and worked for 1 tree but I added 2 extra and just wasn't sure if the one tree was enough for the other 3. I only have a small 2 acre lot and not a ton of room for more trees. Hopefully it will work. I guess I'll know in a year or two. same with my cherry trees. I only have 3 of them so hopefully they take care of each other.
Just an FYI this thread inspired a set of podcasts specifically on trees. We interviewed an arborist and learned some new facts. Part one just went up and is now live.
005 Trees with Nathan Hill Part 1 | 2 Midwest Guys
005 Trees with Nathan Hill Part 1 | 2 Midwest Guys
That's awesome!
Now......
Indeed. Here are three pics showing some of what I transplanted..
This is a about 22' red maple. For scale, those pines are about 5', the fence is 4'
This is a silver birch, probably 18 - 20'.
And here was our smaller catch for the day, about a 15' red maple. You can see a bigger maple, and a river birch in the background.
Just in case anyone is curious, but right now is the time to go to the big box stores and buy trees. Lowes has them for 50% off right now. Last night I bought 5 apple trees, 3 peaches, 2 pears, 3 red oaks, and 1 plum for about $13 a piece. These trees averaged about 6' high or more and would normally cost about $25 a piece. For less than $200, I've got another small orchard. With three little kids who will someday become food craved teenagers I'll look back at this some day as some of the best money I ever spent. Some of these trees will be used to reinforce the existing orchard, and some of these trees are going to be used to start a new smaller orchard in a different location.
Two is one, one is none. With these new trees, I'll try a completely different type of pruning techniques and see which way I like better.
Two is one, one is none. With these new trees, I'll try a completely different type of pruning techniques and see which way I like better.
Good tip on this being the time to buy. I just bought some trees at my local farm store for 50% off. I bought a Nectarine, a 3 in 1 pear tree, 2 blue berry bushes, a nice grape vine, and very healthy Norway spruce.
The spuce trees were only $3 a piece, I'd like to plant a row of them on the back of my property, but the goats and cows would probably just eat them, since it is in their pasture.
The spuce trees were only $3 a piece, I'd like to plant a row of them on the back of my property, but the goats and cows would probably just eat them, since it is in their pasture.
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