The Blairmont Apple Project

  A worthwhile read: https://nmfruitgrowers.wordpress.com/2014/03/11/inbreeding-in-modern-apple-cultivation-by-hans-joachim-bannier/

 Good ole triple digit heat on the thermometer. 101F. Have to water all the critters well early. Made a count on the pad. 47 live trees and 3 iffy. Over on the work bench there are another 6-7. Still going to chip bud some Anna and Dorsett Gold yet.

 Really perturbed with fireblight this year. I am down to 42 live grafts on the grow pad. Hope those grafts yet to bud take soon. Probably another 35 are there. I have some surviving scions I pulled of root stocks. I will attempt to chip bud as many as possibly on saved root stock from dead grafts. The G.214 line is the sorriest of the line up. With a Mother Plant and 4 surviving grafts. I'm really disappointed in Geneva root stock. P.2 was doing far better. But the last really hit P.2 hard. Lost 6 beautiful Shockley grafts. All told 18 P.2 grafts survive. Plus the mother. And my ironic favorite; P.1 on P.2! As soon as it gets more height it is going deep planted as a nurse root so I get a true P.1 tree{much like M.7Elma} The rest of course are good ole M111. 20 of them. Will definitely have to re-order some scions. Terry Winter, Tarbutton, Hoover, Mrs.Bryan after such a great start. Cauley. Norfolk Beefing, Hudson Golden Gem. Devine, St.Clair.  So far a few seem pretty robust...

 So far 14 grafts have been lost to fireblight. 8 on G.214. 4 on P.2 and 2 on M111. By no means is that final.I still have to go through the stooling pots and plants on the pad. And also does not count any of the late grafts which are to early to tell. On the bright side; quite a few are making the transition to young saplings now.