WVMountaineerJack
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Scion exchanges anyone for fruit trees? Its getting about that time to cut scion wood for grafting this spring. Grafting is so easy that anyone who can butter toast should get at least 74% sucess rate. I think it especially fun to graft from wild trees, completely unique one of a kind tree found growing in your fencrow, out in the middle of a field or about to be bulldozed for a housing delvelopment and you go in and save it by taking a few scions to graft onto a tree in your yard.
Dandynicki: We have a potential untested cider apple called Dandynicki, pronounced Dand-da-nicki, that lives deep in a frost pocket, is very vigorous and makes horrible tasting apples that we think are going to be good for cider. Since it lives in a frost pocket we only got 2 apples to try and they were horrible to eat, not from the acid levels but from the tannins I hope.
Beauty of Bardane: We also have a dessert type apple with a good scent of bananna in it called Beauty of Bardane that ripends later October, yellow apple seems to stand up to diseases well and is just all round good tasting,
If people want to swap scionwood post it here, its a good idea to share your scions from your unique tree as a backup, if something happens to your favorite tree then you can get some scionwood back from people who have grafted it and restart again. How often have you heard someone say wish I would have gotten a piece of wood off that tree before it died?
WVMJ
Dandynicki: We have a potential untested cider apple called Dandynicki, pronounced Dand-da-nicki, that lives deep in a frost pocket, is very vigorous and makes horrible tasting apples that we think are going to be good for cider. Since it lives in a frost pocket we only got 2 apples to try and they were horrible to eat, not from the acid levels but from the tannins I hope.
Beauty of Bardane: We also have a dessert type apple with a good scent of bananna in it called Beauty of Bardane that ripends later October, yellow apple seems to stand up to diseases well and is just all round good tasting,
If people want to swap scionwood post it here, its a good idea to share your scions from your unique tree as a backup, if something happens to your favorite tree then you can get some scionwood back from people who have grafted it and restart again. How often have you heard someone say wish I would have gotten a piece of wood off that tree before it died?
WVMJ