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Belle de Boskoop is good apple and I like Calville Blanc but a great late apple is Granny Smith and Pink Lady or Cripps Pink. They have held apples here in PA into rifle season or around mid December
Chad
dont worry about bees unless you get over 500 trees. Use that money for more trees. I am sure there are enough pollinators in your area to take care of those trees. I have over 400 trees in 3 diffe locations on my farm and I get plenty of apples. Your rootstock needs support so I would...
What kind of results are you providing I don’t think GRIN wants to know how many grafts and which ones survive. My Pitch was that I wanted to try certain scion varieties on certain type of rootstock to see if there were any issues. Now I don’t know exactly what that means but every year I...
I use same tags just have to watch wind doesn’t blow them around and have them flap. I have one ended holes on my gage and hang on cage and once I a while the wire ties will cut through the aluminum from constant flapping in wind. Just a tip. I also write on both sides of tag
A 5 gallon bucket won’t fit. I have 2.5 gallon buckets to catch it. i never removed the plywood because can stand on it and really crank the screw down. It can be bolted down to a wood deck or put in concrete
Clean up for sure and sanitary as the stainless won’t absorb any juice. To me there is no comparison and I appreciate Caveys comment on building one his description sounds pretty complicated to a novice lol. I just hose off and I run oxy solution on it before I press to both press and grinder