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Andrew
Andrew
10 years ago

I’d love to have a YouTube video of your net neutrality bit to share. It was your “QE3” videos that got me to listen to your podcast.

Seattle Jesse
Seattle Jesse
10 years ago

Hi Jack, i took hardwood cuttings of blueberries this year. I removed the large buds on a lot of them. Will these still root?

Seattle Jesse
Seattle Jesse
10 years ago

I did stick them in sand the same day, everything was done right except for that 🙂 .

Could you talk about growing seedling stock from cone tainers? I’ve tried Apple seeds but most of the planted trees grew only a few inches, one grew about 18″.

How long should they be grown in those containers?

Angusbangus
Angusbangus
10 years ago

Jack,
Can you spell the Russian variety of apples. I’ve tried various permutations of anakatova and my google-fu has failed me. Seed source would be great, but I can search once I can spell… Don’t want to put in swells 🙂

Angusbangus
Angusbangus
10 years ago

Awesome. Thanks!

lowwattliving
10 years ago

I went to the site and bought 850 apple seeds for $23. You mentioned somewhere that you can get 20,000 seats for $20. If you find this place can you let me know please. 850 seeds are more than enough for me but 20,000 sound a lot better.

Angusbangus
Angusbangus
10 years ago
Reply to  Angusbangus

As a follow-up… any idea on chill hours for Antonovka? I’ve got some stratifying that will be planted regardless. But I’m curious if I should plan to graft onto these or just let ’em go.

I’m in central MS – Zone 7/8 border – and get near but sub-1000 chill hours most years. Of course, with all of this global warming the chill hours have been >1000 every year for the last 5.

Angusbangus
Angusbangus
10 years ago

Of course I listened. 🙂 But you’ve since filled my brain with lots of other fun stuff.

Like I said, I’m planting regardless and I’m a big fan of plant, help grow, and let God sort ’em out. Thanks for grounding me back in reality.

Jerry P. Evans
Jerry P. Evans
10 years ago

Angus this spelling is close and will get you there. (Antonovka)
My question is if Antonovka comes true from seed why does it need a pollinater? Wouldn’t the seeds be hybrid?

Seattle Jesse
Seattle Jesse
10 years ago

Could you talk about growing seedling stock from cone tainers? I’ve tried Apple seeds but most of the planted trees grew only a few inches, one grew about 18?.

How long should they be grown in those containers?

Lukkas
Lukkas
10 years ago

I’ve actually read that some of the serious disease issues fruit trees run into (say, fireblight for example) is related to the way the fruit industry has massively stalled adaptation of the species with a massive majority of plantings being clones rather than having new generations of-say- apple trees popping up on a regular basis.

It’s why I’m generally more inclined to grow diverse apple seedlings in place, see how they turn out and overgraft the ones without a dedicated purpose such as baking, hand-eating or cider.

Carol
Carol
10 years ago

Too much to understand in a pod cast. I’m definitely taking the Plant Propagation course. But another great discussion by Jack!

RedlegBeta
RedlegBeta
10 years ago

You sort of touched on patented varieties with respect to rootstock, but I was wondering what the actual “prohibited” activities are. I called a local orchard to see about taking some cuttings of apples and peaches and the owner mentioned the plant protection act but was still ok with me coming out.

RonBoots
RonBoots
10 years ago

Jack, just to clarify- apples from seed are a 1 in 10,000 chance of getting the next best thing in apples, got it. If you want to produce apple trees from seed, go with the Antonovka, got it.

Any draw back to planting 1000s of random seeds, just to see if you strike it lucky and grafting on good varieties to the losers? Seems to me the best of both worlds- chance at hitting the jack pot with a new variety plus getting a seed grown tree to graft on to. Of course you missing out on the known attributes of cloned rootstocks. I’m going to listen to this one again, if you touched on that and I missed it, just ignore this.

If someone was to go that route, what’s your thoughts on the least number of seeds/trees planted it would take to make the project worthwhile?

USCPrepper
USCPrepper
10 years ago
Reply to  RonBoots

I’ve had that same thought nagging at me for a while. I haven’t done it yet, but I’ve been thinking of doing like 10,000 seeds in a relatively small area with a good heaping of top soil and just seeing what grows. The area I’m thinking of just has terrible soil, so I figure it’s an even longer shot than 1 in 10,000, but if I can get a couple that are really vigorous and hardy that come out if it while the rest die – AWESOME
And since apples are just about the easiest thing I know of to graft onto, even if I don’t get a good one, I have a rootstock that’s perfect for the spot to work with.

USCPrepper
USCPrepper
10 years ago

What about pears? They can also be used for cider, vinegar etc., are the odds roughly the same as apples?

Does anyone have recommendations on buying bulk seeds for pears and/or apples?

ricksdiy
10 years ago

Here’s a great article on apples and the old varieties and the quest for new genes in todays current apples. http://michaelpollan.com/articles-archive/breaking-ground-the-call-of-the-wild-apple/

ricksdiy
10 years ago
Reply to  ricksdiy

forgot to add that a Standard size tree can be obtained by any rootstock by planting the graft union two inches below ground level. I have not tried this but have read this on several occasions.

Mountview Tree Experts
10 years ago

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