Apple planting

[cruff10]

I've been looking at trees I hear https://www.isons.com/product-category/fruit-trees/apple-trees/
is the best place to get them.

Anyone have any experience with them?

 

[Ski]

I've not heard of them but they have a nice web site. Please let us know how it goes if you deal with them!

 

[spur necklace 3]

I've been looking at trees I hear https://www.isons.com/product-category/fruit-trees/apple-trees/
is the best place to get them.

Anyone have any experience with them?

Never heard of anyone ordering from isons myself. For wildlife trees the most popular options are usually:

Wildlife group

Blue hill nursery

Whitetail crabs

Hallman farms

Cummins nursery

St Lawrence nursery

Turkey creek

 

[Rabbitkil]

my grandfathers farm had several varieties of apple, pear , peach and cherry trees growing up me and the cousins would collect whatever fruit was in season and go around the neighborhood to the old women so they would cook us pies .. boy how times have changed

 

[RS]

I've been looking at trees I hear https://www.isons.com/product-category/fruit-trees/apple-trees/
is the best place to get them.

Anyone have any experience with them?

I've ordered muscadines, blueberries, and raspberries from them with no issues. I've never ordered any trees.

 

[MickThompson]

Uggg. My honey crisp do the same and eventually died, but then something odd happened. They root sprouted new growth that has red leaves like a crabapple. I'm not sure what it'll be but they're hardy and growing very fast, impervious to cedar rust. I'm hoping the fruit will be fair. Should be big enough next summer to have fruit.

I don't understand the whole apple pollination stuff either. It's pretty complex. There are so many varieties it's hard to keep up with. I only knew about the black apples because I had been considering buying a few but I've learned with apples that the devil is in the details. You have to educate yourself on cross pollinators. That's when I read about them requiring two other varieties n order to produce fruit. No thanks. I'm sure they're awesome and I love the idea of having apples dropping in Oct/Nov but I'm having such a hard time keeping apple trees alive already I'm afraid I'd be wasting money.

Crabapples are used as rootstock sometimes

 

[MickThompson]

Try a wolf river variety. Great diseases resistance. I didn't spray at all.

 

[Ski]

Crabapples are used as rootstock sometimes

I wondered about that. That would explain the new sprouts being completely different and looking more like crabs than the original tree.