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    I tried the first apple today. It was the smallest one. The apple was still as hard as rock. The taste was awesome! It’s not a million dollar new apple but I grew an excellent tasting apple from a seed! I beat the odds! I will let the rest sit till they get a little soft since the apple I tried today still had a pretty hard and crunchy texture yet.

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    I'm thinking there will be applesauce or cider in your future.
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    Thanks for describing your technique. There is an old apple tree down at our town dump that is a some sort of winter apple. It is the best "keeper apple" I have ever stored over winter. No one knows what type of apple it is and I tried grafting once and it didn't take. I will try your method in January and graft it onto a gala apple.

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    Quote Originally Posted by quilbilly View Post
    Thanks for describing your technique. There is an old apple tree down at our town dump that is a some sort of winter apple. It is the best "keeper apple" I have ever stored over winter. No one knows what type of apple it is and I tried grafting once and it didn't take. I will try your method in January and graft it onto a gala apple.
    I would try at least 5 or 6 Scion grafts of it onto your tree with the winter apple to at least get one graft to successfully take. I keep checking my grafts to make sure the union didn’t dry up. If it does I just keep rotating scions till I get one to take. It might take a good three or more times of reattaching a fresh scion and cutting the branch back an inch or so to re attach to a fresh cambium layer to get it to grow. I check my scions for swelling to see if they look like they have taken every couple of weeks. You can tell they failed if the scion looks like it’s drying up or shrinking from its original diameter. If they didn’t take I will start over till they do. Good luck and keep me posted.
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    Well it’s been 13 days since I picked them. I peeled one of the four remaining apples that grew from a seed on my peeler. I gave it to to testers besides myself to try. My two testers thought it was a honey crisp! Still crisp with a sweet tangy taste. I thought the same after I tested it. Man they are good after aging a week and a half! I don’t think it’s good enough to get a patent on it since it tastes basically the exact same as a honey crisp. I’ll have to wait to see what my other Apple Trees I started from a seed turn out like. It’s been so long ago when I started this tree from a seed. I can remember most seeds I used were pink lady, Jazz, and honey crisp. So it would explain the similar taste to these apples.

    I used the last three to make fritters from scratch for the first time. They last 5 minutes between 3 people.

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    I just saw this posted, looks like useful tool.
    https://www.linkedin.com/posts/engin...941199872-QGv3
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    it is amazing how we can give MOTHER NATURE a helping hand, with something that she seamed was not necessary? jmho.

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    Quote Originally Posted by dsh1106 View Post
    I just saw this posted, looks like useful tool.
    https://www.linkedin.com/posts/engin...941199872-QGv3
    I have one of those but the grafts never take using it. I just cut a “v” make and female notch in the graft area. I have not gotten flowers on the honey crisp scions I grafted on again this year from Todd. Maybe next year. Good thing I had a 1 in a million apple turn out on my tree I started from a seedling. I do have the original part of tree growing apples again this year. Not very many though. Maybe a half dozen or so I’m guessing along with one mackintosh from a graft that I added . The Macintosh Is the only graph that actually flowered again out of the four other breeds I grafted on so IMO I don’t have enough cross pollination to get tons of apples yet. I do have ONE apple growing for the first time on another two trees i grew from seeds. I twisted the trunks together. I gave another apple tree away to a buddy like that and he has tons of apples on his twist tree this year for the first time. They are all looking really good and big! He fertilized his tree way more than I did so apparently that is the key.

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    Both honey crisp scions that Todd sent have flowers on them for the first time! I have 6 grafts on my tree from different types of apples and ALL have flowered for the first time! Hopefully I’ll have apples on each of them! Some of the grafts have to be 5 to 6 years old. I’ll have to post photos of the progress.

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    Sorry, blurry photos, I didn't have my readers on...



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    I circled the original grafts and the flowers. I can post better pics in a few days if someone would like a detail look at the healed grafts. All 6 grafts from various apple trees have not grown alot but all flowered for the first time this spring.

    Id sure like to get my hands on some sweet tango branches...and a tree!!!!

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    And I thought a Scion was a car made by Toyoto !

    Seems they made 8 different models over a 13 year production run ...

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    They pollinated! You can see little honey crisp apples starting to form right by my two lower fingers!


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    I have 2 surviors getting bigger on one of my two honey crisp scions!

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    Fascinating topic

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    There is an app called “picture this”. It will identify the leaf of a tree so you can figure out the dump tree. It’s free but it prompts you buy. It you can decline and use the identifier feature for free. Very handy and works pretty darn good too.

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