Rootstocks And Seedlings
11 postsWinter
11 posts
flowering quince, a shrubby relative to the larger tree form quince
these guys are full of seeds, more so than other quince. Chaenomeles speciosa is the species, they maybe get to 10ft as a shrub or larger bush, True Quince (Cydonia oblonga) can get about twice that size. neither ones of...
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winter garden update, white nanking seedlings taking off after a week, photo 2 is western sandcherry another fast
growing seedling, crandall currant, highbush cranberry, rhubarb .. it's a mix of what germinated early in stratification, we'll hold them...
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talking about chokecherry as a rootstock
couple of 2 min videos, probably too long for instagram. If I could remember to hold the phone sideways...
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siberian peach, or chinese wild peach
Prunus davidiana, similar to Siberian C with a fruit that’s a bit smaller but sweet + delicious, with a thicker fuzzier skin. zone 3/4, one of the most cold hardy peaches. growing these this summer to try as a rootstock...
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western sandcherry, prunus besseyi
hansen bush cherries. such a cool plant, the fruit is super tasty (unlike the related eastern sandcherry prunus pumila), it’s one of the parents of most cherry plums and the black nanking, and it’s a super cold hardy...
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started the winter garden. apple seeds direct into 2.5â pots to start Siberian crabapple rootstocks. with this head start theyâll be up to size for grafting by the end of the season #indoorgarden
apple rootstocks in the fall, seedling Siberian crabapple. this time of year Iâm collecting scion wood and planning to start bench grafting as soon as the ground thaws. #grafting #rootstock
jack pine 12 weeks old
growing conifers requires patience, a one year old tree can be just a few inches...
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pine seedlings just about a week after germination, they still have their little seed hats on
This is one of half a dozen species we’re growing for our own silviculture, a long term project to add diversity into our 52 acre aspen forest. #silviculture...
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Siberian crabapple with purple genetics. One of the trees we harvested seed from in the fall had stunning purple leaves, and about 50% of the seedlings carried that trait. #appletrees #appletreenursery #siberiancrabapple #applerootstock #appletree #crabapples #treenursery
Siberian crabapple (Malus Baccata) rootstocks from our winter garden getting potted up. #appleseedling #rootstocks