Cloning Fruit Trees

Robbie · Post by **Robbie** » Thu Aug 04, 2016 4:29 pm

FANTASTIC!!!!!!!!!!1 Well done! A difficult thing to accomplish!

Post by **WLLady** » Thu Aug 04, 2016 5:55 pm

Not sure about selling cause i am not sure they are living lol spy apple. Plums (mount royal?) And bing cherry i think. But i dont think the plums are doing well...
Sandy plums get black knot fungus...we are fighting it now on our plums. It sucks.
Get something good to zone 3. We lost 2 zone 4 pears the second year because well, the weather was not zone 4!!! It was COLD.

Maximus · Post by **Maximus** » Fri Aug 05, 2016 7:58 am

Ok. Thanks Kathy.

redninja · Post by **redninja** » Sat Aug 06, 2016 10:55 am

I've been inspired by this post. I pick apples for a local orchard and am going to get some cuttings to try out. He has snow, old style macs(not those new nutramacs), russet, tomlin sweets, man(a war time apple) northern spy, Ida red, red and yellow delicious, Spartan and courtland.
Will be an interesting experience.

baronrenfrew · Post by **baronrenfrew** » Sat Aug 06, 2016 2:14 pm

"Our old house had a huge pear tree -totally inedible raw but awesome for canning-stayed whole." Fyi there are "storage" pears and apples that you pack in a box of straw and leave in a cool place until after Christmas. Many apples are actually grown for their hard cider qualities : floral (smell) sweet and tart apples.

Sandy: moisture? Too dry or too wet? If potential flooding or very wet you can grow apples in "raised" beds so they drain. Or if mold is a problem: you have to prune the tree so there's lots of open space so the wind blows through. (Old saying; you should be able to throw a cat through an apple tree without him catching a branch.) Apples grow wild in Kazakhstan where they could be 80% of the trees in a forest and the bears are the wild pruners. http://www.bbc.com/future/story/2016052 ... red-apples
http://www.siloamorchards.com/fruit-trees-apple.php These guys have 100 mostly heritage varieties: Uxbridge On near Newmarket

Maximus · Post by **Maximus** » Sat Aug 06, 2016 2:30 pm

Baron,

Too wet. Marshland over here. My first choice is a pear tree. Second is Apple.
I've started some research....ill let you know where I end up :)
There has to be a reason there isn't any fruit trees on this property before my arrival. Or maybe there isn't.

baronrenfrew · Post by **baronrenfrew** » Sat Aug 06, 2016 3:43 pm

Check this Sandy http://growingfruit.org/t/growing-fruit ... d-beds/353

You basically build a raised bed for the trees. A foot or foot and a half is lots for dwarf trees. Dwarf trees can be grown in pots or half barrels. Garden centres have semi-dwarf trees so you have to order dwarves.

Dominion Link · Post by **Dominion Link** » Tue Aug 09, 2016 9:29 am

I dealt with Siloam (on Baron Renfrew's suggestion )this spring and was very pleased. Purchased Hudson Golden Gem Russet and Roxbury Russet. Bare root and they took right off from the time I planted them. Looking forward to getting a few more from them in the future, but trying to decide from all their varieties takes some discipline