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38 Comments
How can you tell that there are only 3 varieties when there are more than 3 trees?
Montezuma orchard restoration project is doing similar work with the Colorado Orange apple and other heirloom varieties from early Colorado settlers.
So you are grafting rather than making a new tree? Why? Can you make new trees? From apple seed? How? And how to identify? I have lots of varieties that I would like to propagate. Eastern Oregon.
This is so interesting
Would there be any forensic evidence and or tests for determining true origin and types of apples?
Great video
Thank you
So fun🎉🎉🎉
Question – I have an apple tree I bought with 5 branches grafted to the root stock. One of those branches failed to come out of dormancy. Would it be work trying to remove and replace the failed graft with a new one? My neighbor has a pretty good looking Hungarian apple tree the would be nice to graft in if possible.
Thank You! Fascinating!
Thank you for this video and for taking up the heirloom apple project.
Have you considered partnering with a history student in need of a topic for senior project, etc. for further research of the varieties. Where were farmers buying their trees from at the turn of the 20th century? Nurseries used to advertise in newspapers and magazines and some of those records do remain.
Contact SSE – seed savers exchange.
Great video presentation, finding and taking cutting from these old apple trees is so important. Once they are gone that’s it. Getting these grafted and planted will be interesting to see what they look like when they produce fruit.
Good work MI gardener and Luke,
I'm loving this 'series' of saving old apple varieties! 😀
love how excited you are! it is wonderful to see someone thinking about the future
This is amazing work. We had in our community what I was told was the oldest pear tree in Westminster, CO. In winter 22/23, it fell and the city hauled it away. I tried to get cutting to root, but was not successful. And I didn't have a tree to graft onto. But last year I got a pear tree (Moonglow, based on your recommendation) and then saw some sprouts from the roots of that old tree were pushing up. So now I'm hoping once my tree is big enough and those sprouts fill out, I'll have something to work with. I'll need pollen from another pear tree anyway as I only have the one and my space is limited. I did have some success grafting a pluot and aprium onto my nectarine tree last year. So I now have some experience.
If you go to Fayette historic park there are apple trees everywhere. They all look to be same variety.
My son just bought a place a year or so ago. An old farm has an apple tree humongous on the property in the back of the yard is big, if not bigger than the ones you showed on this clip, he lives near Cambridge Springs, which is near airy Pennsylvania.
Woah, being able to theoretically just go on google earth and look at those dots on the map then you know if there still is the tree
This video was very interesting! When the trees start grafting and are good, will you donate a few back to the golf course to keep the legacy since some are dying?
How u like them apples. 😂
09:00 “st bernard and sniffing” in the same minute. 😂 🙏✌️🇺🇸
Thank you for your insight, diligence,respect, and wisdom
I love watching you find these old apple trees. Especially since you are trying to save these old apple types.
Luke, we all get excited when you get excited.
Even my 75 year old brain gets imaginings of cloning my ten and twenty year old fruit trees.
Thank you for the boost!
So happy you are saving these trees. I am almost 80 and remember going to old abandoned farms in West Virginia as a child with my aunt to pick apples. Today's apples never compare to those. Thank you again from my great and great great grand children.
Okay, Luke, VERY cool video!! Among your best. It reminds me of the one where you got the tomatoes seeds from the antique shadow box and GREW them! Epic!
I was on the golf team in Algonac in the 80s and we played at the St. Clair Golf Club – ate those apples almost every day – delicious! i remember them being golden in color – at least some of them.
Yes, everyone should hug a tree today.
Very cool amazing historical journey. Love that you had to trudge through the snow to get to the destination. It added even more anticipation and excitement to your finding the apple trees. 😊
I have an old apple tree on my yard and I wish I'd have known that you were interested sooner because I had an older one that was unfortunately cut down because it was starting to rot and decay… long story short, if you want to take some of this tree that we've still got then im sure that we can work something out, i am in Michigan about an hour north of where this video was shot
Back over 30 years ago we took our son to the Apple Fest at a local garden center. They had an apple tasting and among the samples were apples from the oldest living apple tree in Oregon, planted by the famous historical figure John McLoughlin. He was important in establishing support for arrives from the Oregon Trail and was important in making the case for Oregon a US territory. Apples are so important to our history. It was so cool of you to save these apples for further travel through time.
When I was a Kid we went to a orchard with old trees. Those trees were huge. Much bigger than the trees you are showing.
Great vid. Thx and good luck.
This is such an awesome video
My grandparents property have apple trees like this and a pear tree. You can’t put your arms around them. I’ll have to look into taking cuttings and how to grow them
I wish this was my job. What fun!
Glad you enjoy this work, Luke. Thanks for sharing the journey!
Here in northern CA. there are there are still many apple tress left from 100 year old homestead sites…hopefully I can get some cuttings from these as you have done…I hope you can show the next steps in this process….thanks so much!
Awesome! ❤❤❤❤