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I planted several trees with very low graft unions. I planted them at grade and a year later all trees had settled 6 to 8 inches. Now I'm constantly uncovering the graft unions because the trees are planted too low. If I let it go they could root above the graft and grow to full size.
Man Dre. I’m wondering if some of those Fujis are on a different rootstock that g41. That’s a lot of vigor. That nursery messed up your liberties , so possible. Your second row of Fuji shown look like what you would expect with g41 as you noted.
Are you sure about your pruning system? The Liberty look to be to be a spur bearing variety. So you want the old wood and then they fruit from spurs off that. Golden Delicious and Fuji are a tip bearing varieties, and so you want those new whippy growths to get the best fruit. Looks like you got fruit high up presume it was above the frost. I tend to prune when they are in flower. No flower and it gets cut off!! One of my favourite apples is Discovery. Really early before anything else. Does not need pruning. My tree has been there for about 35 years and it just produces fruit. Every shoot has a flower, every flower produces a fruit.
We try not to crop until the 3rd leaf at all. 3rd leaf we look for 10-30 apples or so. After that we aim for 80 or above with a goal of 100 apples per tree.
@@joshh9090 Thanks for the information! I have talked to a lot of people about starting a home orchard a lot of them say that they don't won't plant any trees because they think that they won't see any fruit for many years. So if you get the right size of tree and prune like you are supposed to then you can start to see production in three to four years, you have talked me into planting a few trees just so i can show my friends that they are wrong about their thoughts.
@@joshh9090 Pardon me but in his presentation Farmer Dre stated he would plant higher variety trees meaning, I believe, varieties he would pay more for and sell for more. I am curious which varieties those were.
@@erichaskell ah I gotcha now. So when we look for varieties that offer the most return they are usually things like honey crisp , ever crisp, autumn crisp, snapdragon, etc. varieties like gala and golden delicious do not make the same money retail
