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Unclebaldrick

Unclebaldrick

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Baby clothes shouldn't brag so much. Half the outfits I looked at today had ridiculous claims on them; such as "Mommy's Number One Draft Pick" or "Built Tough Like Daddy (insert wrench picture)". So I went somewhere else and they kept suggesting things as if I were some hipster - like moustaches and guitars n shit. But at least they weren't so conceited.

So I got him blue giraffes in sort of a Finnish Marimekko pattern and a seersucker jumper.
 
UncleBuck

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apples - granny smith, yellow delicious, and red mcintosh

plums: stanley prune, green gage, and superior

cherries: montmorency, north star, early richmond

peaches: reliance, red globe, and redhaven

apricots: chinese, tilton

only the apples and plums do well here though. the rest need lots of luck to escape a late frost after their buds have set.
 
Singlemalt

Singlemalt

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UncleBuck said:
apples - granny smith, yellow delicious, and red mcintosh

plums: stanley prune, green gage, and superior

cherries: montmorency, north star, early richmond

peaches: reliance, red globe, and redhaven

apricots: chinese, tilton

only the apples and plums do well here though. the rest need lots of luck to escape a late frost after their buds have set.
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Nice. What size were the transplants? Bareroot? Always remember: Visqueen is your friend
 
Singlemalt

Singlemalt

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Dwarfing, semi-dwarfing rootstock? You'll have to train them by pruning. Its good they are well branched, gives you something to work with, the emotional shock of first year pruning is brutal tho, lol
 
UncleBuck

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Singlemalt said:
Dwarfing, semi-dwarfing rootstock? You'll have to train them by pruning. Its good they are well branched, gives you something to work with, the emotional shock of first year pruning is brutal tho, lol
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i think most of them are dwarf or semi dwarf root stock. couldn't bring myself to give them the pruning they needed, just lopped off any branch below the waist, laterals, and topped central leaders. got rid of cross branches and parallels too. gonna let them take off a little before i cut them back real hard.

the rows worked out pretty nice, looks the same from multiple angles. one angle it looks like i planted 4 3 and 2, from another angle it looks like 3 3 2 and 1. five of them went into a little colder area of my yard to hopefully ward off early budding.
 
Singlemalt

Singlemalt

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UncleBuck said:
i think most of them are dwarf or semi dwarf root stock. couldn't bring myself to give them the pruning they needed, just lopped off any branch below the waist, laterals, and topped central leaders. got rid of cross branches and parallels too. gonna let them take off a little before i cut them back real hard.

the rows worked out pretty nice, looks the same from multiple angles. one angle it looks like i planted 4 3 and 2, from another angle it looks like 3 3 2 and 1. five of them went into a little colder area of my yard to hopefully ward off early budding.
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Nice. You'll want them "crown/bowl-shaped" for harvest ease and light penetration. Oh yeah, bird netting when they produce or you'll maybe get a day of fruit lol
 
UncleBuck

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Singlemalt said:
Nice. You'll want them "crown/bowl-shaped" for harvest ease and light penetration. Oh yeah, bird netting when they produce or you'll maybe get a day of fruit lol
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oh shit. be very quiet. don't let uncle ben hear you espousing this open center pruning blasphemy.

i believe in leaving some cherries for the birds, even though i will be keeping these pruned to within arm's reach anyway. should at least make it easier to spray.

i used to work at a nursery, i love doing this kind of stuff.
 
Hookabelly

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Singlemalt said:
Nice. What size were the transplants? Bareroot? Always remember: Visqueen is your friend
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Visqueen is a common term here in WA LOL. Slugs can be the worst garden pests here. Now they are out en masse with this stretch of warm weather. It's so gross. One will get run over on the road and for every one smashed slug, there are about 50 other slugs gorging on the corpse. They are just disgusting creatures.
 
Hookabelly

Hookabelly

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UncleBuck said:
i think most of them are dwarf or semi dwarf root stock. couldn't bring myself to give them the pruning they needed, just lopped off any branch below the waist, laterals, and topped central leaders. got rid of cross branches and parallels too. gonna let them take off a little before i cut them back real hard.

the rows worked out pretty nice, looks the same from multiple angles. one angle it looks like i planted 4 3 and 2, from another angle it looks like 3 3 2 and 1. five of them went into a little colder area of my yard to hopefully ward off early budding.
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How many trees total? Mr. Hooka planted over 1000 evergreens on our property years ago as part of a reforestation project in our county. I laughed at him initially, as the baby trees were the size of one tiny stick with needles on them. All grew but about 10%. They are now HUGE and give our place a nice privacy border of evergreens. What did I know?

We've got some killer plum trees. Flowered out early this year. I'm going to try and dry the plums. If the deer/bear don't get them all first.
 
curious2garden

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Hookabelly said:
Visqueen is a common term here in WA LOL. Slugs can be the worst garden pests here. Now they are out en masse with this stretch of warm weather. It's so gross. One will get run over on the road and for every one smashed slug, there are about 50 other slugs gorging on the corpse. They are just disgusting creatures.
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They like beer too, that shit is just wrong.
 

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