Grafted vs seedling

[jlane35]

What is the difference? Am I taking a chance with a seedling that it won’t match the parent tree? And grafted guarantees it will?

 

[Native Hunter]

A seedling has two parents just like you do. You are not an exact copy of either. A grafted tree has wood from another tree, and should be exactly like the other tree. With that said, the rootstock can change the qualities of a grafted tree to some degree, but it should be very close to the original.

 

[jlane35]

A seedling has two parents just like you do. You are not an exact copy of either. A grafted tree has wood from another tree, and should be exactly like the other tree. With that said, the rootstock can change the qualities of a grafted tree to some degree, but it should be very close to the original.

Excellent. I’ll go with the grafted.

Next question for you. Where did you order those early ripening apple trees from? Like Striped June. I can find information on them but not to buy.

 

[Native Hunter]

Excellent. I’ll go with the grafted.

Next question for you. Where did you order those early ripening apple trees from? Like Striped June. I can find information on them but not to buy.

They came from Big Horse Creek Farm. However, I recently learned that they no longer sell grafted tree. They do still sell scion wood, so you could get some wood from them and graft your own.

 

[Native Hunter]

Excellent. I’ll go with the grafted.

Next question for you. Where did you order those early ripening apple trees from? Like Striped June. I can find information on them but not to buy.

I’m not sure why I didn’t think of this earlier, but there is a place called Century Farm Orchards that sells a wide variety of heirloom trees, and many of those are early ripening. He might even have Striped June. You can Google the place and find it easily. BTW - one early apple you want for sure is Bevan’s Favorite. The taste is much better than Striped June and it is only 2 weeks later.

EDIT - I just looked and he has 70 Bevan's Favorites in stock on MM111. He has 3 Summer Champion, and I highly recommend it as an outstanding (and big) early apple. I've never eaten a Early Harvest, but lots of people rave about them. He has 15 of those in stock. He has 65 Grimes Golden in stock. I ate my first one of those this year and loved it - not extremely early, but mid summer. That tree grows extremely clean for me here, and doesn't seem to be affected by Scab or CAR. I've also never seen any FB on it, but it is still too early to tell for sure on that.

Here are some links:

Century Farm Orchards: Apple Tree Nursery
Physical Inventory Worksheet 21-22.xlsx (centuryfarmorchards.com)

 

[jlane35]

I’m not sure why I didn’t think of this earlier, but there is a place called Century Farm Orchards that sells a wide variety of heirloom trees, and many of those are early ripening. He might even have Striped June. You can Google the place and find it easily. BTW - one early apple you want for sure is Bevan’s Favorite. The taste is much better than Striped June and it is only 2 weeks later.

EDIT - I just looked and he has 70 Bevan's Favorites in stock on MM111. He has 3 Summer Champion, and I highly recommend it as an outstanding (and big) early apple. I've never eaten a Early Harvest, but lots of people rave about them. He has 15 of those in stock. He has 65 Grimes Golden in stock. I ate my first one of those this year and loved it - not extremely early, but mid summer. That tree grows extremely clean for me here, and doesn't seem to be affected by Scab or CAR. I've also never seen any FB on it, but it is still too early to tell for sure on that.

Here are some links:

Century Farm Orchards: Apple Tree Nursery
Physical Inventory Worksheet 21-22.xlsx (centuryfarmorchards.com)

Awesome! Thank you so much.

I just sent him an email.