1st rd done of grafting complete.

[buckvelvet]

Yeah #teamparafilm lol


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[Turkey Creek]

Well I would say you had great success for Parafilm only!

 

[buckvelvet]

Well we get wind but not the plains wind like you get though.

However your also a professional, your basically the 'Merica version of Stephen Hayes.


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[Neahawg]

I think its the sandwich bags myself, keeps the graft union from drying out so has a longer time to heal up and callus.

 

[Turkey Creek]

Well we get wind but not the plains wind like you get though.

However your also a professional, your basically the 'Merica version of Stephen Hayes.


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Well I would use the term "professional" loosely. And even if you gave be a British accent I wouldnt be Stephen Hayes!

 

[Maya]

I hear TC uses bread wrappers for grafting tape!

 

[buckvelvet]

Got my gala bagged the best im going to, around 55.

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[buckvelvet]

Update on my first bark graft, in laws pear tree.

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[buckvelvet]

4 crabs i had @turkeycreek graft are doing well this year.

2nd leaf homestead crab from tc is doing well also.

My 5 chinese chestnuts lived through the april frost as well.

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[buckvelvet]

Did converted half our 'swamp plot' to clovery/chicory/timothy last summer. Other half is real sandy so that is winter rye. @broomjim

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[broom_JM]

Everything is looking great, Bacon! The improvements you've made in the last few years are really impressive. Is that picture of the rye and clover mix looking to the north? If so, you have reclaimed a lot of ground there!

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[4wanderingeyes]

4 crabs i had @turkeycreek graft are doing well this year.

2nd leaf homestead crab from tc is doing well also.

My 5 chinese chestnuts lived through the april frost as well.

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Love your fern plot! I hate ferns!


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[buckvelvet]

Love your fern plot! I hate ferns!


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We cant beat em round these parts. Take the good with the bad.


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[4wanderingeyes]

I figured this out by accident, but in the plots I plant winter rye, there are no ferns. Coincidence? I don't know, but my entire land is covered in ferns, except where the winter rye is.


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[broom_JM]

I figured this out by accident, but in the plots I plant winter rye, there are no ferns. Coincidence? I don't know, but my entire land is covered in ferns, except where the winter rye is.


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Fighting ferns is a particular challenge, in some areas. A spring spraying of gly, just after the ferns have unfurled, followed by a summer planting of BW and then a rye mix in the fall is a 1-2-3 punch that usually set them way back. The reason ferns don't usually grow the next spring is because of the allelopathic chemicals released by rye that inhibit the germination of other seeds. However, if you're managing your plot well, you're also increasing the pH with significant applications of lime, making that soil more favorable for plants other than ferns.

 

[4wanderingeyes]

I have been adding lime.

 

[buckvelvet]

Docs Trophy Pear from turkeycreek.

The 3 old relics standing as time allows, all have loads of apples.

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[greyphase]

Hey BV, that's a pretty pear tree. I've got 2 of the 3 "relics" growing in my nursery from last years grafting. Will be planting them out this fall.

 

[buckvelvet]

Update on the pear I regrafted at my in-laws. Doing really well, i cut a branch off the main tree that was coming down across the one graft.

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[broom_JM]

Have you been pruning those ancient apple trees? If so, has there been any change in the volume or quality of fruit they are producing?

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