Planting fruit pits.

gary,
I worked a three day job in granville on the highline with a dozer fixing a right of way and then backing a man lift down a steep draw for the utility to fix a tower. two old orchards where we unloaded. Nice and very hard to believe springfield was just 20 min away. felt like the back woods. Had bears and piliated wood peckers in the state park over in agawam.
Are you in E or W RI?
Some nice land in w Ri for sure.
 
I'm in Middletown, next to Newport.

I got killing geese out of my system years ago on some private property around here. In the right lightly hunted field it can get too easy.

Now I mostly work my two spaniels on the state hunting lands toward MA. Get up to Maine once a season in mid-Oct. VT and/or NH for upland once or twice. Some duck hunting, but I've noticed duck hunting pressure going down in RI.

This state's duck hunting season dates are goofy. Sea duck hunting aside, they have a four day early season in Oct then it shuts down until Thanksgiving. Not at all what I experienced in MA. Their duck hunting & upland season had a long overlap. Because of the prohibition on trapping a lot of the state lands are lousy with beaver ponds/wood duck habitat. I could go in early for ducks then switch to pheasant on the same day.

With last year's early winter being so mild, ducks are hanging around longer. I'm going to start going after them more.
 
Kenmack, I dont know if you have Big Lot stores where you live, we hgave them in Bham, but in the past I have bought pear and apple trees from them real cheap, I dont remember the exact price. We planted them on our farm for the deer. We bought them at the end of the planting season(early summer) and they were deeply discounted from the original price. I doubt you would find any now but it wouldnt hurt to go to some nursurys or big box stores and see if they would discount any trees they have. Even if you buy a nursery tree it will be several years before you get a significant amount of fruit. Steve
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Careful there on the PEAR trees, they have the, damn, what it the name of the pears that is an exotic and now felt to be a nuisance tree that takes over.....Come on Steve, help me out here. Anyhow, that is the pear they sell.

They do have decent, not high quality apples, and other trees, but the main shoot on almost every tree they sell has be improperly cut and now it will grow a bit wanky. Not a huge issue on fruit trees, but they do sell other trees that get much larger but may be off centered.
 
originally imported as an ornamental that was sterile....gorgeous int he spring when it blooms and again in the fall when the leaves are marron....planted as ornamentals they have "reverted" to their original type when left untended and become highly invasive.....Natur always finds a way and these "virgins" now sport the original multiple thorns and fruit allowing them to self propogate.....

Interesting that you should talk about bad grafts and later poor structure in trees purchased at "big box" stores. When we moved into this house 15 years ago we had (3) cherry trees and (2) Crab Apple trees put in....all (5) of those trees have the "poor form" you talk about that is the result of the graft being incorrect...and to add insult to injury (2) of th eCherry trees turned out to be mis-marked and are the "ornamental virgins" that have gorgeous blooms and showing yellow leaves in the fall but no fruit, (which is why we wanted them).....both of those trees are so mis-shapen that they'll come down this Fall..I'll live with the Cherry that bears fruit and the (2) Crab Apples because while they are "ugly" they do produce well.....

Like you said not a big deal for a tree you are going to let grow wild for the animals, (damned GREEN WIENIE-probably a closet left wing Croc wearing Socialist if you ask me), but if you care about the shape of things to come I'd stay away from them....

Steve
 
Funny, I was gonna say Bradford, but was just unsure, but that is what Big Lots sells, tons of them too from what the manager said.

thanks for the input Steve, that is what I have heard about them in the past, just wanted to point that out.

My favorite apple tree though is the Honeycrisp apples. One of the best in my opinion.
 
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