Sweet November is a Applecrab! This tree began dropping fruit the beginning of November and is still continuing to drop fruit and attract deer as of today. This applecrab resides in Northern New York in plant hardiness zone 4. Great looking product Ryan. Thank you from all us deer hunters. Jonathan Johnson Michael Ousley Michael Case Jeff Stambaugh A big bunch of fruit on that tree, when was that first picture took? . Do you have anything available for spring orders? Very nice! You have any available? Myles Kellerman This cultivar was grown by and given to me by Mr. John Trout (he has alot of great grafting videos on you tube for those that are interested). This tree has been proving to be something special from up in the north to well into the deep south. It begins producing at a young age, its consistent and has a nice drop. The drop will swing a few weeks from north to deep south. For those of you that are interested in fruit trees or growing trees for deer. There is alot of great people, tips and ideas can be found on habitat-talk.com/index.php?forums/fruit-trees.5/ and deerhunterforum.com/index.php?forums/fruit-trees.11/ I planted one of your Primetime Crabs this past spring and very impressed with the growth, can’t wait to see what it does in its second year. I'm going to close the chapter on this tree! The camera I had on it has been moved to another tree that has been proving itself to be a winner! This tree that I have posted about in my latest few posts has officially been named "Lockdown Crab". Very impressive crop of fruit this tree is carrying back in November. I copied from your earlier post. Josh Gardner Josh Hackenberg Michael Mixell Traci Lee Just a little update on that apple crab I had posted about back on November 4th. This tree Still has fruit hanging and dropping. I was looking for something that the main drop would be short, sweet, late and at a good time. This tree fits that description. This crab provide an adequate drop for all of us whether we like to hunt the rut or focus on our firearm seasons. Im sure the question is when will this drop for me? Abscission is what causes a fruit to drop. Its the cell division between fruit and tree. Abscission happens for different reasons to different trees. On this tree I believe its happening for the right reasons. Drop times can swing a few weeks on the same tree, at the same location on any given year. What I'm saying is many of us should see a very similar drop from this tree. Also this tree needs a name any ideas? The Roundabout Crab Whitetail Rain Sweet November These for sell? Estrous crab Nice looking tree. I need couple. Tree name Hardy Time. CNC. Cold November Crab 🤙🏼 Hail of Mary crab Seen a crab apple today that looks exactly like your pic in November King Crab or November Reign. You have a lot of time to think of names while sitting in your deer stand waiting for Mr. Big! Tardy Crab Between 2 Primetime Crabs. Election crab Always Late crab Short and Sweet apple crab. This guys drop time was 3:45pm yesterday. Bottom of the ninth crab Crabvember Crab Full swing crab Overtime Crab November Rain Rut on time crab It’s called I need one lol. Will you have any for spring shopping ? Drop Time! Extra Innings Crab The two pictures below are of the same tree. Obviously one picture is from today and the other from a few days ago. Question is if I graft and make some of this apple crab does anyone want any for next year??? Dropping at the perfect time for this buck and me too! yes, changing it up with a ground sit. I would be interested! I’d be interested!! Looks good 2 me Hey Ryan just wondering if you ever find sheds in your orchards? I’d buy one! Considering how fast you sold out, you could probably tape pine cones to a tree branch, and it would sell. I'm personally looking for PA rifle season dropping fruit trees. Yes please! Yes..... I’d take a few. Yes! Add to my order... I’d order one or two! Yes I’ll take one or two or three lol, and yes I’m in a tree Doe with her tongue out and 2 bucks chasing. I hope the bucks get bigger! Yes please Yes, you know Ill tale some I'm in Sure Ill take some if you graft some up Yes, if it drops late. 5 please Is everyone else sitting in a tree right now? I do! How is its disease resistance? This pear has been named Jack Pot! The reason I named it such is because the very moment that I bit into that very 1st pear in mid October I knew with that sweet buttery taste it was a winner! The fact that the deer were keeping this one tree’s fruit cleaned up with a million wild apples lying on the ground also told me the same story. This pear drops roughly the entire month of October. The taste is above that of a kieffer and just as productive. hopefuly i can get my order in in time next year! get one for zone 3 northern mn I have just the place for that variety. I need a few There is a saying: A picture is worth a thousand words! Looks like the deer are going to be eating plenty of apples again this year.
Awesome looking tree Looks like a winner! Some trees are just more productive than others! In a no spray situation with many common apple tree diseases around. This 70+ year old tree is probably the most productive, best tasting and disease resistant apple tree that I have ever seen, more Your site is always out of stock, when do yall ship your trees? Looks like an apple bomb went off..... I grew this tree this past year. They are not for sale but I can say the trees extremely vigorous. This tree bears heavily but there doesn't seem to be a need for thinning ever apple was extremely large, even with a heavy crop. You'll sprain an ankle trying to walk under that tree!! I would love to know the background story behind these old prolific bearing trees! Will you be selling these in 2022 ? I'll take a few Rock on Ryan ! I’m on the lookout in zone 4 ! Can’t wait to get some Turning Point trees going on my Canadian border property. Put me on the list! I want a couple Told ya !!! I think Rusty’s Favorite would do well in SOKY, especially on my place.
Yep, I see an all nighter if necessary come September to get one! I want! You better grow a lot lol This is Deer Candy Persimmon! First off this tree originated from the efforts of the Late Mr. Jerry Lehman of Central Indiana. Don’t confuse this tree with other persimmon trees that have been given the same name "deer candy", this is totally a different variety of Persimmon. This tree is just now beginning to drop a very nice sized sweet tasting persimmon here in Pennsylvania. Deer Candy is productive and bears at a young age. It doesn’t hold very long, dropping early October into November, but a nice drop at the right time, plus an excellent choice for diversity in anyone’s management plan. Looking for some advice to really help on the persimmon front, is it worth planting them in pots to grow them bigger for a couple years before planting in the wilderness? I've missed the boat the last two years on ordering your persimmons, next year I'm staying up all night! Lol I can’t wait till mine starts to produce 😎😎 I enjoy seeing the end result, it helps me keep motivated! . The Malus Pear! Not a giant pear but maybe just the right size when looking to feed whitetails. I brought this pear home and began grafting it for many reasons. One reason was because I liked how it produces heavily and annually, it’s a northern pear, originating from from further north than I am located. I named it Malus pear because at this time of year it tastes more like an apple than a pear. It has a crisp crunch with the flavor of a yellow delicious. This pear typically falls through the month of November, typically at a pretty fast rate beginning in early November making it very attractive to deer. This pear stays firm enough to avoid those pesky bees of late summer that damage the fruit of many pear varieties. Yet it begins softening in November and becoming immensely sweet and almost tropical in taste. This pear has been planted across the country for the last few years. I am sure some will have pears hanging on them this time next year. Late in October take a couple from the tree and take them in the house and place them in the fridge. Do this with Sweet Advent pear as well. The taste after a week or two in the fridge will be unlike any fruit that you have ever tasted. The same process is happening to the pears remaining outside on the tree or on the ground. These are two pears that deserve much more than to be fed only to wildlife. Tips for improving your odds on sale starter.
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If technical problems come up on opening day, get the coffee pot going and be ready for action, even if it means setting up all night!!!🤣😂 If you posted here and missed out contact me late August next year. I'll see you get some pears next year. If you posted it will allow me to reference back and know you missed them. Which pear tree would be a good pollinator for the malus pear? I sure would love to get a few of your pear trees When will you have some available? I wish I could be fast enough to get some of these! Can’t wait to get mine going, along with my advent, and winter pears! They are on my list! If I can just get my order in 🙁
Maybe you should use a preference point system so people that have tried to order in the past only to get to checkout and have no items in their cart can have a better chance the next round?
Just a suggestion Ryan! I want your trees!!! This one was at the top of my list for this year, but I missed out on it! I’ll be sure to get a couple next year. Ryan, how cold hardy is this pear? I can’t wait until you get more stuff in stock! Awesome products and such good information to get!!! Load more
This 2" applecrab is very sweet, will fully ripen and hangs well in the north. I believe that once this tree is grafted and growing here and below the 40th degree latitude (northern and southern states) we will all see something special.
Sweet November bears very heavy crops of very clean applecrabs. You can see in the 1st picture how heavily it produced on very young wood. The original tree carries strong weeping limbs from all the years of producing so much fruit. This tree has never been sprayed in its life. Shows strong resistance to Cedar Apple Rust (C.A.R. is very present in this area), fruit and leaves are clean showing no signs of scab, or infections of blight having ever been on this old tree and with that said powdery mildew would have most likely brought this tree down at a young age in the wild.
There was a Browning trail camera placed to cover this tree during the month of November and then a Spypoint was moved in early December. So with pictures taken at 2 different angles, Sweet November definitely looked to be a preferred tree among a 1,000 other wild apple trees within close vicinity.
Although it may be a little cliche, I just saw the name as being fitting because a majority of the drop did occur during the exact period of time that lockdown occurs. A period of time at which I took my buck that was locked down with a doe this year year on November 20th. This tree kept the attention of a lot of deer right up until the end. I added a few pictures to this post taken the last few days before the camera was moved. Theres was many more pictures taken even though most deer had moved off to a tree now named "Sweet November" that is still holding and dropping alot.
The original tree is not located on my property and I did not harvest my buck from this tree. That being said this tree will be added to my management plan because of its drop time and attraction during that critical time of season.
I have been fortunate enough to expand and be able to go through 1,000’s and 1,000's of wild growing trees thanks to all of you. It normaly takes about 500 to a 1,000 trees to find something truly special when looking at drop time, disease resistance, fruit quality, ect.
Lockdown Crab is one of those trees that fits the above criteria and has pretty much finished its drop in the last week. As far as drop, this trees is occurring for the right reasons during an essential time of season. You could probably figure the drop a few weeks earlier in the south and be right on the money in states such as NY, PA, OH, MI, Northern IN, Northern IL, WI, IA, Southern MN.
Lockdown Crab is something special and is an apple crab you will definitely see next year! 
This pear may have been just a wild fence row pear, but in just a few months this will be a grafted cultivar at Blue Hill Wildlife Nursery and will be for sale next fall. The oringinal tree is located in plant hardiness zone 5a/5b and has recieved temperatures as low as -24 in 1994.
Maybe a picture of Turning Point this time of year will put you at a loss for words. Turning Point made it’s Wildlife Management debut this year and it is a winner. This late season Crabapple found its beginning with Whitetail enthusiast David Whalen from Northern New York.
I had posted a lot of winter pictures last year of Turning Point taken mostly from a trail camera and there were a lot of deer visiting this tree. Last year this tree was loaded and as you can see in this picture it is consistent at annually loading itself down.
Turning Point at this time of year has a sweet flavor, not at all tart, that deer relish, and has great disease resistance. This picture was taken October 1st at which time Turning Point had a few crabs turning yellow, beginning its drop with a slow flow then increasing with a continuous drop for months making it a extremely valuable piece in anyone’s management program.
so than any of the modern day disease resistant apple varieties available today. This tree drops pretty fast the 1st two weeks of October with a large apple, most every apple was perfect and looked like they should me at the market.
You may question: Why are so many apples on the ground and why aren't the deer keeping them cleaned up? The answer is, this tree resides in a region that right now, at this moment, has thousands upon thousands of wild apple trees growing and a million apples lying on the ground.
This incredible apple is now named Rusty’s Favorite.
I hope you liked the picture and if you are wondering if this tree is coming to Blue Hill Wildlife Nursery? The answer to that is, Most definitely!!!!
You always hear the question "do deer eat pears", I’ll say this, in many parts of this country many deer herds have all they want to eat and in other places they get hungry. If you have Pear trees dropping fruit you will have the deer regularly checking your trees for their pears. By planting the right pears you won’t have to worry about where the deer are. I have spent years and years searching for the right pears and I feel that I have found them and I’m putting them to use.
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