Sorbus domestica. After years and years of waiting for fruit i decided last year to tie down one of the branches of my "sossenheimer riese" cormier in order to induce flowering. This grafted tree is 8 to 9 years old and has never flowered yet. This branch is not affected by the disease yet and someone told me that if you tie branches of fruit trees downwards they flower and fruit quicker. I tied some rope to a heavy stone and bent the branch down so the flow of the sap will cause it to flower. I will see soon if it will work.
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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