What a young Malus pear looks like today in Pennsylvania. Still a whip on standard rootstock and going to fruit. I love trees that fruit on one year old wood but make sure you remove it for a few years. Cant wait to get mine in the ground One of the pear trees I got from you in 2018 but I don't remember what kind. Take a close look at this picture! Do you see those blossoms? Those blossoms are on 1 year old wood! This very young tree is blossoming in Alabama right now. Watch your Advent pear and Malus pear trees, these will both set fruit on that one year old wood. Remove those pears when they form or clip the blossoms before they set fruit. My pear trees are just getting ready to bloom. I see no fruit..... lol Pretty tree. I reckon they might want to raise that fence up a foot or two to stop deer from eatin it This video shows how persimmons are self pruning or somewhat self pruning. If you’re new to planting Persimmons many times a trees self pruning might be seen as winter die back but that's just not the case. Potted sizes? You know if you keep adding all these trees you will have to offer a budget plan 😂 Summer Sky I would write something more about this but as they say, a picture is worth a thousand words. Prolific bearing fruit trees dropping fruit throughout the winter they are priceless. I feel deer prefer crabs due to their size. I am not talking about flowering crabs, but any crab over 3/4 inch. What's the trick to keep voles from killing them. Voles kill all of mine. I can’t wait until this coming fall Again, so many choices. I’m ready to get what I was so excited about ordering last fall in the ground in just a few short weeks.
Which tree is in the picture? Any advice on how to keep beard from destroying fruit trees? I wish I could plant fruit trees on our farm but bears destroy any fruit trees . This is not a very good video. When theres only a single chestnut you dont get to do the video over again. I learned something the other day and wanted to share it. I was outback clearing another acre to plant newly grafted trees. This chestnut tree sets just outside of that acre. I was surprised to find this single chestnut still lying on the ground. When I picked it up I could feel it was firm. I wasn’t expecting the chestnut to still be a viable nut, even though we have had a mild winter. This nut has seen temperatures in the single digits quite a few times. This made me think, if I could plant enough trees how long could I make a food source last. Just thought I'd share. I’d never heard of putting stone down like that. U like the stone around tree base to keep voles away? Harold Souders this is the Nursery. Do deer eat pears? Big Lou is a pear for this next year Ron. I do feel this is a pear that will prove to be exceptional in areas such as yours a very gentle shake of Big Lou brought pears tumbling to the ground. I have a farm in zone 5 in southern Iowa. Do you recommend semi-dwarf rootstock or 100% in this area? I noticed some varietys are sold out in one but available in the other on your website. Thanks in advance How do u plant these do they come with instructions. How long before fruit Thanks for refreshing my mind. Can’t wait till they start fruiting. Can't wait to get me shipment from you this spring!!! I'm sure I will be putting another order in this fall!! I see Big Lou pear in some of the videos but it wouldn't pull up in a search on your webpage for order info That was a great read I'm weeping with pear joy. Great stuff Mike Michael Case Jeff Stambaugh Jonathan Johnson Michael Ousley Summer Sky Louden Don't let the name fool you! Gram’s Gift crabapple is a special tree and a great wildlife tree. This tree has a lot going for it with heavy annual production, great disease resistance, good taste, and a nice drop on it, September into November. It's more than likely that the trees, getting shipped this march/April that once planted will be producing a few flowers and probably produce a few apples if you let them this spring. Theres a pretty long list of crabapple trees like this on the website Sonofcal, Wholeseason, Winter Crabarina, Road kill and October crab. U have any of these left That blue sky! 😍 Don Bray This Crabapple is named Turning Point , it comes from Northern New York and has tolerated temperatures as low as -35 degrees. This heavy bearing crabapple is essential when looking to feed or attract wildlife in northern climates. Are you grafting these or growing from rootstock? Id like o order some, but don't see them available on your website. How would it do down south? Now I have two reasons to look forward to in September. Nice tree. When a hobby becomes a passion it shows. I have no doubts that any tree from blue hill wildlife nursery should be amongst a Hunters' "secret" weapon to bring in the whitetails and keep them interested all season long! Jonathan Johnson Michael Ousley Jeff Stambaugh Dave Ball, Mike Jackson This is going to be like a black Friday sale. Blue Hill Wildlife Nursery striving to take food plotting for Wildlife over-the-top, Vertically!!! I live in a region that has millions and millions of wild fruit tree varieties. These trees have been waiting to be discovered and become named varieties. You see, fruit trees do not grow true from their seed, so you graft plant tissue from the original plant to rootstock to propagate the new tree. I was fortunate to make a new friend and get to travel his amazing property. A place full of wild growing trees that have been waiting. This asian type pear tree below now has the name Big Lou. The fresh dusting of snow has covered many of the deer tracks in the mud. Yet I could tell by the amount tracks that deer have been hitting this tree quite hard for some time. There was zero dead wood in this tree, very healthy looking dropping pears December to January in hardiness zone 5a. You will find many new varieties of pear trees at bluehillwildlifenursery.com/product-category/pear-trees-for-sale/ The integrity of the fruit was pretty impressive as well. The taste was a nutty pear flavor. Good enough that the deer approved. I'm going to make a few 20 or 30 and I need 10 for myself. So there wont be many available. The trees are beautiful. So ready for spring!!! Can't wait to ferry my pear trees in. Wanted the persimmons also but sold out. That's unbelievable, still fruit hanging...gotta get some of those.. I definitely need more trees lol. I would say I will be ordering a Big Lou but looks like that will depend on how quick I get my order placed when sales start. I'll be buying a Big Lou when available I'll take 1 Dave Ball I added 1/4" to 3/8" rootstock to the website: Malus Dolgo, Antonovka and betulifolia priced at $2.70 a piece. Clonal rootstocks Bud 118 and OHxF 97 and a persimmons rootstock. Rootstock For Sale - Blue Hill Wildlife Nursery - Buy Rootstock bluehillwildlifenursery.com What is the difference between the rootstocks? I am in mid Michigan and looking for standard size wildlife stock. I'm new to trees for deer and new to your page..could you explain root stock ect..or where I can learn how to plant David BryceBlue Hill Wildlife Nursery Blog
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There will be two new grafted female persimmons added to the website this summer. Both of these trees are growing up out of the native range of persimmons and are producing seedless fruit heavily without a pollinator. Both trees did extremely well even after the polar vortex of 2019 and produced heavily.
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The short answer is yes. I should have titled this understanding why and when deer eat pears the most. Pears are my number one fruit for attracting deer through late October into December. Obviously, all our deer are different. We all live, manage, and hunt in different regions. If your deer are hungry, they'll have no trouble gobbling down a cardboard tasting pear. I just don't have that luxury here in central Pennsylvania. Let me explain something about pears. Many varieties do not ripen on the tree. Pears need cold storage for about 3 weeks to a month in order to mature. What happens here in October and November? Pears become naturally placed in that cold storage, here in Pennsylvania. Now, this process doesn't count for all pear trees. What this does is make a good tasting pear out of this world sweet. A cardboard tasting pear, well they go from cardboard to
better-tasting cardboard pears. Obviously, I wanted pears that ripened on the tree for September and early October and this is why Ayer's and Early Bow pear trees are here. These are good-tasting pears that deer will eat. You want to have a few trees like these to develop a feeding pattern. As those two pear varieties come to an end the Kieffer pear begins to turn yellow, ripen, and fall to the ground. Kieffer pear is one of the best pear trees for deer however, I did name mine, Danville Kieffer, because there are many trees getting out there, that are not true to the variety. As Kieffer pears continue to fall into late October, that naturally occurring cold storage begins taking place. The Kieffer pear begins to be very attractive to deer and is a pear that deer love. Kieffer pears will all get cleaned up pretty fast at this point as its nearing the end of its drop. So I needed
something more, something that's just getting started in November when Kieffer is about done dropping fruit. The pear trees I found and named Advent, and Malus, are just coming into play as the Kieffer pear comes to an end. These two pears are very edible to humans and the deer. The cold storage process I talked about to make a pear ripen well, that's well underway when these two pears begin to fall free from the tree. These two pears will have deer coming from the neighboring properties and beyond. Why? Well these two pear varieties are in that cold storage process and are heading for that to sweet for human consumption taste. Really, they are that good. By now if you are still reading this, you have to be thinking this guy is crazy. I'm not though. I needed something more to keep that attraction going so, in comes Rifle Deer Pear dropping hard the last week of November and through
the first week of December. A sweet pear, great for jams and jellies but, we are not looking for that. I want to attract and feed deer pears, pears that deer love to eat. A New exciting pear, named Big Lou then starts dropping in December through January, attracting a lot of deer. The Winter deer pear begins to shake loose through January and into March. These pears have all held their consistency and remained palatable to a white-tailed deer. It's not long and you just consistently fed deer for eight months. These pear trees will all produce heavily annually. They won't let you down. I'm really not crazy, I just have an obsession with the white-tailed deer! These are all pears deer eat.
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These trees are all similar to golden hornet, early production, fruiting annually, good taste. I've searched through 1,000s of wild trees looking for diversity, looking for trees that had different drop times. Yet trees that maintained all the characteristics to make it a great wildlife tree. You will also see some amazing crabapple trees from other wildlife enthusiasts like myself on the website, with some great new trees to come this next September.
Many people think a crabapple is this bitter, high tannin, a fruit that deer may or may not eat. While this maybe true with some crabapple trees, it's not with crabapples for sale at bluehillwildlifenursery.com/product-category/grafted-crabapple-trees-for-sale/
Comparing apples to crabapples. There really is no comparison, that is why the list of crabapples for sale is 2 pages long. In soil with adequate nutrient levels and ph. Let's say the trees are five years old, a standard apple may have 50 apples on a tree, but a crabapple is producing 500+. You are going to loose atleast 20% of those standard size apples by the end of summer do to insects pest. Dont ask me why crabapples are just less affected, I'm still trying to figure this one out. Also, these are grafted trees, not seedling grown trees, grafted trees will bear fruit at a much younger age, this is the reason why there would be 500+ apples on a 5 year old tree. One more thing deer dont care if its 1.5" apple or a 3" apple. I'm not saying dont plant standard size apples. I'll have about 20% in every planting. I am saying that crabapples will feed more deer, when looking to feed apples to deer.
Turning Point produces heavy crops of crabapples that hold well and drop from November well on through winter ,while providing something amazing when planted along side food plots or on its own.
Food falling from above in winter is essential for all wildlife, even as snow may becomes deep trees holding soft mast WILL BE THERE during the winter months.
This tree produces a great 2'' crabapple and shows strong resistance to C.A.R and Apple Scab.
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