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Ph: 608-624-3359 Fax: 608-735-4837, 42700 Hwy. 171, Soldiers Grove, WI 54655

GRAFTING CLINIC, March 27th, at Kickapoo Orchard, Gays Mills, WI

Time: 10:00 AM to 4:00 PM. Clinic will cover: Chip and Dormant Chip, T., Bark & Veneer, Cleft, Whip, Inarching and Green Tissue Grafting. Bring your own grafting knife, or there will be a Victorinex straight blade grafting knife for you to use, or buy for $11.00. There will be P-22, B-9, Supporter-4, and B-118 for apples. Pyro 2-33 for pear, Krymsk 7 for cherry, all @2.50 each. There will be plenty of free ones to practice on.

For apple varieties select from the Variety List Link on the left, cost $1.50 each or bring your own. Patented varieties cannot be propogated without a license. Cookies, cider and coffee provided. Lunch at Rolling Ground Bar at 1:00.

Cost: $30.00 each, lunch not included.

Deadline: March 23rd. Reply to email link on the left for Bill Meyer.

I am now licensed by the University of Illinois to propagate WineCrispTM apples, and has received Patent No. PP20437. This is a new larger red and later apple, it carries the Vf gene for scab resistance, and was developed by traditional breeding techniques. Please contact me using the email for Bill Meyer on the left side. For more information click on the following link:

Link to information about WineCrisp TM apple

Link to information about freezing temperatures in fruit trees, grapes, etc.

Scroll down to see a list of IPM Pest Management Supplies.

Contact me to see if I can be of assistance in your orchard projects. Use e-mail link to Bill Meyer for cider & All About Apples lower left. I can assist in planning a new orchard, maintaining production in an established planting, in the rejuvenation of an older orchard, or propagating a new tree/s from your favorite apple tree. For further information on the grafting techniques show below, contact me by phone or email.

NITCH & NOTCH: Photo left: Restructuring of 18 year old grafted tree. Rootstock is M-7, Interstem of Empress, grafted to Sugarcrisp in 2008. Photo right: Result of using "Nitching and Notching" techniques to initiate branch renewal, note branch initiation below notch cut.

SIDE GRAFT: The first photo on the left shows 2-year old Paulared on B-9 before grafting. Right photo shows area chosen for inserting the bark graft. Left photo below shows first L-cut for inserting the scion. Right photo below shows scion inserted with color coded tape on tip. Lower left photo shows scion taped and ready for graft seal paint.

Left photo: scion slipped into cuts made in trunk. Right photo shows graft after taping, before tree seal.

CHAIN SAW GIRDLING:Left photo: Over vigorous scion rooted Honeycrisp on MM26, and chain saw cuts made to slow vegetative growth. Right photo: Over vigorous growth has slowed, there is increased light penetration.

BARK GRAFTS: Left photo: Bark grafts placed on McIntosh on M111, May 2008. Right photo: Growth after one year.

I have decades of experience in: appraising, consulting, grafting, pruning, budding, spray programs and orchard planning. Let's discuss varieties - your own family favorites or heirloom varieties. I have worked for large and small orchards, retail, wholesale, organic, hobby orchards, and in cider production.

If you think your operation could benefit from experience, new observations, and just plain conversation, or an orchard evaluation -- then contact me at All About Apples. 58 years of experience.

If you are cutting scion wood for mailing, the photo on the left shows the type of wood that should be cut to provide good and viable scion wood. One year old terminal growth has the best characteristic for successful grafting. The length of the cut stems should be 1' to 2' long, and the thickness of a pencil at the mid point of the stem. The cut wood should be wrapped with wet paper, and placed inside a plastic bag, kept below 40 F until mailing. It takes 3" - 4" scion wood per graft.

The photo on the right shows the scion wood grafted to the rootstock. When the grafted trees are received, always handle the tree below the graft, and kept below 40 F, but above freezing, before planting.

For the spring of each year All About Apples will offer bench grafted trees with the variety of your choice on rootstock of your choice (subject to availability). For prices, I need to know variety, rootstock and quantities and who will furnish the materials, plus time required to complete.

IPM Tech Inc. 4134 N. Vancouver Ave. Suite 105, Portland OR 97217,Ph: 503-288-2493, traps lures.

Ladd Research Co. 131 Dorset Lane, Williston, VT 05495, Ph: 800-451-3406, apple maggot traps.

Crop Production Servies (formerly UAP, same location) N15721 Schubert Rd., Galesville, WI 54630, Ph: 608-539-2090, traps, chemicals, packaging, and good advice.

Trece Inc., 1031-C Industrial St., Salinas, CA 93091, Ph: 831-758-0204, pheromone lures & traps.

Beneficial Insectary, 9664 Tanqueray Ct., Redding, CA 96003, Ph: 800-477-3715, lacewing, wasps.

Applecraft Orchard Supply, 5253-45th Ave. South, Minneapolis, MN 55417, Ph: 612-728-8095