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Post by MikeH on Feb 7, 2012 13:21:22 GMT -5
The air in 77-year-old Nick Botner's 7-acre Yoncalla, Oregon, orchard is redolent with the aroma of apples, a sweet-tart sensation guaranteed to make your mouth water in anticipation. Three thousand varieties in every hue, from the palest yellow to vivid green to a spectrum of reds and mixed-color creations, hang like succulent jewels from more than 6,000 trees.Botner, a modern-day Johnny Appleseed, tends what he says is the largest private collection of apple varieties in the world. Visiting the orchard is a tantalizing journey through time, cultures and continents.Well, he's now 85 and a change is about to happen/happening.But apparently he's still selling scion wood, although it seems this may be his last year - www.slant.com/orchard/Botner-2012.PDF . There's over 5,000 varieties on this list!!! It's a damn good thing that I don't live in the US or I probably being doing something silly. From where I sit, drooling is cheap. Added: And then there are these folks - www.wagonwheelorchard.blogspot.com/
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Post by 12540dumont on Feb 7, 2012 13:23:04 GMT -5
The link to the list at slant is broken.
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Post by Hristo on Feb 7, 2012 16:59:34 GMT -5
Just a week ago I have looked for his 2012 list, but could find only the old ones. Thanks for bringing it here. Here is a searchable copy of the list: Attachments:
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Post by 12540dumont on Feb 7, 2012 17:02:30 GMT -5
www.wagonwheelorchard.blogspot.com/These folks are offering trees with scion wood grafted on to it from Bortner's Orchard. This may be the last year they do it, so if you in the states, you might want to get in line.
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Post by steev on Feb 9, 2012 2:45:28 GMT -5
So I've gone through "all about apples" and wagonwheel, coming up with 130 apples I want. Don't even think about the money; I'll have to coddle those puppies in pots until next November before I can even start planting them out, assuming the rains come normally. Whose yard can I keep them in, landlady's or girlfriend's? It would be so much easier if I lived on the farm! Back to the lists; which do I need least, landlady or girlfriend? No, wait, which of the APPLES do I need least? So many decisions!
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Post by khoomeizhi on Feb 9, 2012 7:31:01 GMT -5
^yeah, i've got basically no extra funds this year...going to that website was painful.
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Post by 12540dumont on Feb 9, 2012 12:49:07 GMT -5
At the beginning of the "farm" season (which of the 12 months of the year that is not, I don't know) I set aside $10 a week in my secret stash. Now you know what the Seed Saver's Exchange catalog is good for! At the end of the year, I had saved only $120. Sheesh, only enough for 12 trees. I want to plant them on either side of the path as I expand the farm. Trees, beautiful fruit trees. How to decide? I know Steev, why don't you bring all your trees down here.....  Okay, maybe that won't work. I'll get attached to them. |
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Post by steev on Feb 9, 2012 21:46:25 GMT -5
Then there are the pears...
Actually, it might make more sense for me to get pears, since I've got some serious clay/drainage problem area at the back of the farm. I think pears are the way to go there. Sigh. I've long-since strip-mined the 401K, my income, and the cats haven't come back yet from the last time I sold them; I am such a plant junkie.
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Post by castanea on Feb 9, 2012 22:38:45 GMT -5
, and the cats haven't come back yet from the last time I sold them; LOL |
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Post by 12540dumont on Feb 10, 2012 13:13:38 GMT -5
Steev, I'll send you a cat. This is Rocky, he can assist you with the placement of Remay. So, okay help me out with my list. The pears are giving me the most trouble. Here's the Pear list:Yellow Huffcap Barland - Both of these for Perry Shinko Ya Li - for Asian Pears Beurre d' Gris Beurre d' Amalis Seckel Winter Nellis Apple ListKingston Black for Cider Hauer Pippin Pfirsichoter Sommerapful Berner Rosen Calvilled du mont d or Calville Rouge d Autumne Lady Williams My Jewel Pink Pearl Waltana Wynachee And one early and one late crab apple, which I haven't even begun to figure out. It took me till One last night just to get this far. Anyone with apples, please chime in. My chilling hours are not as many as Steev's, >32 and <45 degrees = 735 and boy does it vary! I'm in zone 9. Anyone, a good book on orchard management? Attachments:
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Post by steev on Feb 14, 2012 1:36:22 GMT -5
All I know about those varieties is that Shinko is my favorite Asian pear, such a musky-winey flavor.
Nice cat, but I probably couldn't sell him more than once, as he wouldn't know where to come home to.
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Okay, maybe that won't work. I'll get attached to them.
