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Blueberries |
The ManyTracks Orchard
Lilli Apple
wild seedling tree in front of shop fruit tart, small-med. light red splashed green fruit
Grafts: Cowgate / Discover / Zestar
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2021 - A lot of pruning, clearing spaces, opening up around grafts, bringing top down and in. Working toward future replacement of original tree with the three grafted varieties. Discovery - grafts growing slower but doing fine. Tried a direct graft but it didn't take. Zestar - growing fine. Direct grafted another branch.
2020 - 5/3 pruned out a lot, working toward grafts replacing original. Sawed off top trunk/limb. Fruit once again poorly. Tree is healthy enough. 2019 - 4/30 cut off top limbs & others, cleared around grafts + planning future. July - fruit set in clumps like crabs. Thinned what I could reach from ground. Fruit not good, split, rough. Zestar grew enough to cut top & graft nearby (graft broke off later). CowGate long growth - cut piece and direct graft more/less East - didn’t thrive, cutoff. Orig OK. Discovery2 new graft nw, grew fine. 2018 - Light pruning early. End July pruned out quite a few branches around grafts plus uprights. Some fruit, rough, lot of splitting, rough skin, med-small, not usable. Good growth on tree; many uprights will need pruning next year. Eventually let grafted varieties replace top of tree, leaving bottom branches for deer. CowGate ‘17 graft - grew well, strong 24" shoot. Zestar ‘17 graft - small growth 6" tip + several buds. Healthy. 2017 - Summer light pruning for shape. 6-2 blossoms opening (with BlOx, Beacon). Med/light blooms. Light fruit set; thinned some. med-sm fruit, some cracking but good enough sauce apples. End Aug/early Sept. A few left mid Sept. Leaves somewhat rough, blight, aphids but good dark color, healthy. Re-access fruit quality next year, whether to graft over most of tree or not. Tree is nice shape. Grafted Zestar (from Marie, GF) and CowGate (road apple on e side Fox Rd by pasture gate). Both popped but not a lot of growth. Rough year for most trees. Graft another next year. 2016 - cut out a lot of trees south & around so now more in sun. Pruned quite a bit to open & narrow top. Looks good. Moderate blossom, light crop med-small fruit. A bit rough but OK, rather sour. 2015 - more pruning for shape, height and some thinning. Light blossoms. 2014 - applesauce 9/15, 18# sm-med most from wild clothesline tree. small, Peck of nice apples 9/6, another 1/2 peck later. Small but good quality; typical wild sour flavor but fine with sugar for sauce. 2013 - First notes of apples harvested, in applesauce, "large basket apples from se shop tree, cooked & victorio". Did some pruning. Copyright © Susan Robishaw |
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Wild seedling tree, south of shop, east of Bulero. Named
after our wonderful cat Lillibulero (named after the English tune of that
name). Medium
size tree tree. Small-med red splashed green, somewhat tart apples.
First notes of apples harvested in applesauce 2013, "large basket
apples from se shop tree, cooked & victorio". Started pruning.
Apples most years are not very good so starting grafting better
varieties to tree. Plan to make it 1/3 each Zestar, Discover, and
Cowgate (a wild seedling tree from up the road).
Cowgate - grafts growing vigorously, large enough to pull some branches down and
do some pruning. 
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