sorbopyrus - my two sorbopyrus plants are sprouting now so they survived the winter. With each passing year the prospect of them flowering draws a step closer. I planted them in a metal barrel that i cut in half in order to constrict the roots. I grafted them on to quince C rootstock to speed up flowering. The hope is to be able to cross the two and get viable seed to grow new varieties. The smaller one is a shipova and the taller one is a tatarka. Sorbopyrus plants are notorious for taking forever to start flowering so i hope that these will end up doing it quicker.
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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