Sorbus domestica. This is a grafted true service tree of a very special variety called "Christophs Apfel". The reason this variety is very special, is because it flowers and fruits at a really young age. A friend of mine grafted this tree last winter and it flowered and made fruit. To graft a tree and then have it flower and set fruit straight away is very unusual. This variety is known to flower and fruit very quickly at a young age. To me this is exciting because i planted about 20 sorbus domestica trees on my land, the oldest one was moved from our old property, and having lived here for 5 years, i am still waiting for my trees to flower. Since this young tree flowered last year it should flower again this year, all going well. I will post pictures if it happens.
I weeded all my malus sieversii trees and i lost quite a few to what i believe was a combination of deer, rabbit and rodent attacks. I think i lost between one fourth and one third of the 426 plants i grew from seed. I discovered some visually very amazing and different ones in two of the six seed batches. I singled out several unique ones that i planted in my polytunnel to grow them properly. I didn't have the time to protect the 426 as i would have liked to. All trees of the 4 other batches have basically green leaves. Here is one example. This is a very nice green leaved one. And another green leaved one. Already these two are different in leaf colour and shape. But i selected them from the batches where all had green leaves in order to be sure to have genetic diversity. I kept 18 seedlings in the polytunnel that contain some of every batch. The following ones are very special and unique and display many variations of red and green and even other colours. One seedling with nice
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