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Apple tree shoots?
Mesophilic:
Haven't found any hazel but I have found salt cedar down along the Rio Grande. Might have to give it a try if it's still there.
I'm not sure if NM is doing it yet, but AZ has started introducing a beetle to kill the salt cedar since it's pretty invasive.
TimBo:
I have saved a few apple shoots from pruning our trees, but have yet to try them out. My advice would be to find a few really choice ones and see how they work. If you like them, you know where to get more in the future. If they don't stay straight or have too weak a spine, you don't want to spend time on wonkier ones to find that out!
M2A:
Part of my job is to oversee fruit production on the commercial farm I work at. We still have a block of about 1500 trees about the size of yours. When I first started into primitive archery I gathered up a bunch of 1st year suckers that I though would make good arrows. After debarking I noticed they all snaked back and forth to where each leaf grew, that in its self stopped me back then. I keep some in my shop just in case I would want to revisit that idea but dont have any plans to. Along with being snakey most seem to have too much of a taper and a low spine for their size. Your plan to let them grow an extra year should help with those issues. I think you will need to break out the thumb plane to remove a significant amount of wood by then tho. I think its too much work but would love to see them if you were to do a set. You could prune the tree and let a couple of the suckers grow, in about 5 years I bet you would have a couple big enough to make a bow. :)
Mike
Allyn T:
Introducing animals to wipe out other animals or plants never works well
Mesophilic:
Thanks, M2A, I knew someone had to have already tried apple.
It seems like once a person goes down the primitive path, life is never the same. Always walking thru the nature keeping an eye out for resources and all.
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