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["TIM INMAN" <TIM@HISTORICINTERIORS.COM>]

Sorry for the spelling.  Yes, it would be Duane Mann that I'm referencing.  Hopefully, I'll get to meet him someday.  So far, I've just spoken on the phone with him.

 

I agree completely about the Chieftain!  Tasted my first last year, and WOW! was I impressed.  I have a grafted limb growing on one of my little trees right now - which came from the Frisk orchard, in fact!  Can't wait to get it over to a full tree and taste some of my own.  (Didn't have a rootstock of its own to put it on this past spring, so I just stuck it on an available tree to keep it alive.) Thanks for the scion.

 

I'm trying to grow a Hawkeye.  Deer have rubbed it off twice, so far, to knee height - so the going is slow.  Someday we'll be able to compare notes on it, maybe . . . .

 

Interstate Golden Giant Apricot update:  The graft took fine, and we have a tree that is about 36-inches tall as of now.  I'll have scion wood for sure with this season's good growth - if the deer don't get to it.  It is living inside a wire cage, so we should weather out fine.  Later on, I'll get back on scion wood and what to do with it.