Topic: apples

[dodge]

 
I lucked up an did pick some apples off the ground that finally made sense.  Enough rain an no frost helped.
We been drowning lots here.

Joke.

dodge

[Tina]

It is a good thing your apples did not float away, Dodge.

[Dianna]

I would love to have a Granny Smith or a Gala apple tree...

[bestofour]

what kind of apples do you have dodge.  We only have crab apples.

[Dianna]

I love crab apples, too, Sheri. Wrennie sent me a crab apple seedling tree, but it died on me...

[bestofour]

Takes one to know one Dianna.  Crab that is.

[Wrennie]

I love crab apples, too, Sheri. Wrennie sent me a crab apple seedling tree, but it died on me...

might have another bigger one...........

Takes one to know one Dianna.  Crab that is.

[Dianna]

Sheri, are you calling yourself a crab?

Wrennie, I would love to have another or two or three...

[Wrennie]

Theres a baby tree that I think is an apple. She's much bigger than those teeny ones I sent you. But I'm not sure if she's attatched to the momma trees root. I'll have to dig and see. Definitely small enough to mail tho'. Do apples need really cold winters to bloom well in the spring?

[Dianna]

Do apples need really cold winters to bloom well in the spring?

Hmmm. I don't know, Wrennie. The teeny trees were fine, but I don't think I knew how to take care of them the way they needed...

[Wrennie]

Hmmmmmmmmmmmmm, google time

[Wrennie]

from: http://www.uri.edu/ce/factsheets/sheets/fruittreesfail.html

 Most hardy fruit trees need a certain amount of cold winter weather to end their dormancy and to promote spring growth. When winters are too mild, spring growth is delayed, irregular and slow, the period of blooming is extended and the possibility of frost injury increased.

from: http://www.state.sc.us/forest/refcare.htm

Flowering and fruiting can be encouraged through pruning. Trees that bloom in spring (dogwood and flowering fruit trees) should be pruned when flowers fade. Trees that bloom in summer (crape myrtle) should be pruned during the winter.

and http://www.gardenguides.com/128654-prune-apple-trees-south-carolina.html

Also, pruning should be focused on thinning the tree to produce more fruit

[Tina]

We can grow some types of apples well, here. And up a little higher on the mountainside they can grow them all. It gets cold enough for the cool weather needs. But we can also grow the warm weather fruits, guava, avocados, etc. Peaches, plums and apricots do very well here too. I love my climate most of the time.

[Jessica]

We planted 3 honeycrisp trees 3 years ago.  We have yet to have apples.  Hopefully one of these years.

[Tina]

Is it a matter of weather at the wrong time?

[bayou girl]

i thought you had to have two different varieties for them to make?

[Tina]

Not with everything. Some are self fertile.

[Wrennie]

Honeycrisp are Martons most recent favorite. Apples can take 3 - 5 years before fruiting.

[Jessica]

Tina, it is not the weather.  I don't think anyway.  When we bought them, they told us that they should fruit the next year.  Well they haven't.  We think they are just not mature enough yet.