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**Tom** @firephoto@mastodon.social · 3d

Tom @firephoto@mastodon.social

Some of the Jonathan and Gravenstein apples starting to grow during the cell division phase.

A photo showing apples that have been pollinated and growing fast during cell division. The fruit is small and fuzzy and isn't much more than a swollen part of the stem below where the flower blossom was.

A photo of a Gravenstein apple growing after pollination. The dried up flower bits are on and around it with other smaller or unpollinated parts.

A Jonathan apple graft starting to grow the fruit during cell division after being pollinated.

#orchard #FruitTree #pollination

**Tom** @firephoto@mastodon.social · 3d

Tom @firephoto@mastodon.social

Looks like there's some fruit set on the Harcot apricot, Brooks plum, and Comice pear. Not shown was the Bosc pear that has some too.

A photo showing tiny apricots starting to grow. There is a small fuzzy green fruit growing within what's left of the dead blossom parts.

A photo showing a couple of small shiny plum fruits starting to grow. It's possible they are not pollinated but fruit tend to grow fast during cell division if they are pollinated otherwise they grow slow and then fall off.

A photo showing fruit starting to grow after pollination on a Comice pear tree. The fruit grows sorta behind where the flower was. There are hybrid aus willow catkins hanging on the tree.

#orchard #FruitTree #pollination

**Ooze 𓁟** @Ooze@wirejunkie.net · 4d

Ooze 𓁟 @Ooze@wirejunkie.net

Ok gardening people, what's going on with this King David apple?

A red apple cut in half showing how much of the fruit is translucent.

#gardening #orchard #apple

**Sarah Arnold** @sejarnold@beige.party · 4d

Sarah Arnold @sejarnold@beige.party

We want your apple blossom weevils!

Are you an apple orchard grower or apple agronomist in the UK?

We are looking for capped blossom sightings in UK orchards, and a bit of information about the locations where you are finding them.

A fairly close-up view of the tip of an apple branch, with green leaves and a flower bud that is shrivelled and brown because it contains a weevil that has damaged it.

#IPM #ABW #orchard

**alxtrnr** @alxtrnr@social.lol · 4d

alxtrnr @alxtrnr@social.lol

Apple-solutely Amazing

A scenic view of an apple orchard in full bloom, with rows of trees displaying vibrant pink and white apple blossoms. The trees are planted in neat, parallel rows with a grassy path running between them. Each tree is supported by wooden posts and training wires in a modern orchard management system. The blossoms are particularly dense in the foreground, showing various shades of pink against green foliage. In the background, the rows extend toward the horizon under a slightly overcast sky, creating a beautiful spring landscape.

#Kent #apple #orchard

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**Nervensäge** @Irisfreundin@troet.cafe · 6d

Nervensäge @Irisfreundin@troet.cafe

@benjamin_bloom
Here we are, gardeners and friends of plants:
#gardening
#NativePlants
#permaculture
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#vegetable
#food
#BloomScrolling
#flowers
#Allotment
#VegetableGardening
#Orchard
#Obstbaum
#Schrebergarten
#Kleingarten
#Streuobstwiese
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#GrowYourOwn
#HomeGrown
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**Tom** @firephoto@mastodon.social · Apr 27

Apr 27

Tom @firephoto@mastodon.social

The old Esopus Spitzenburg tree. I think I transplanted it here in 2012, it was probably 3 years old from seedling if it wasn't just a root sucker if the other tree is grafted on a spitz root stock because it doesn't grow very fast either. So probably 15 years old. I haven't pruned it much if ever except to get wood for the grafts I did. It might be 10 feet tall now with a 4 inch trunk maybe.

A photo of an apple tree with blossoms. It is 15 years old or more and sort of small. It is growing on it's own roots and not grafted. It was damaged from ice buildup that split the right leaders as shown. They were screwed back together and sealed up when this happened probably 5 years ago now. The sky is blue with some small clouds. There is a small shed for animal shelter in the background and many trees and rocks in the landscape.

#orchard #AppleTree #AppleBlossom

**Tom** @firephoto@mastodon.social · Apr 27

Apr 27

Tom @firephoto@mastodon.social

Esopus Spitzenburg apple blossoms.

A photo showing clusters of apple blossoms on a grafted tree. They blossoms are slightly pink, the unopened blossoms are pink to red. There are two white pilgrim geese in the background, they are both males.

#BloomScrolling #AppleBlossom #florespondence

**Tom** @firephoto@mastodon.social · Apr 27

Apr 27

Tom @firephoto@mastodon.social

Honey bees on apple blossoms. Both of the Esopus Spitzenburg, or Spitz, are full bloom now and everything else is still blooming with some bee activity.

A honey bee on an apple blossom. The bee is facing down with it's left side towards the camera. It's a slightly dark colored bee. The blossom are white with a bit of pink. The sun is out, the sky is blue with some clouds in the upper and right.

A honey bee on an apple blossom. The bee is facing upward with it's back to the camera. The flowers are white with some pink. There is blue sky in the background.

A honey bee on an apple blossom that is pink and white. The bee is facing away. It is bright colored with a black butt.

A honey bee on an apple blossom that's pinkish. The bee is bright colored on the orange or amber side and has a black butt. It is facing up and to the left with it's back visible.

#pollinators #pollination #FlowerWithBee

**Tom** @firephoto@mastodon.social · Apr 23

Apr 23

Tom @firephoto@mastodon.social

The bosc pear and brooks plum. I don't think the bosc will support 1 pear but I'll see what sets and maybe find one low and close to the trunk. The Brooks plum should support a handful of fruit.

A bosc pear tree with about a dozen blossoms. It was planted 1 year ago. The blossoms are white with 5 petals that are separated from each other. It has shiny green pear leaves...

A photo of a brooks plum tree that was planted 1 year ago. It has a wire fence hoop around it plus chicken wire to keep nosy geese out. It is almost done blooming but had several dozen blooms.

#gardening #orchard #plums

**Tom** @firephoto@mastodon.social · Apr 23

Apr 23

Tom @firephoto@mastodon.social

Honey bees and apple blossoms. Saw a bumble bee too but it had no desire to stay on a blossom for more than a half second.

A photo showing a honey bee on an apple blossom. The bee is average to darker colored, the flower is white. The leaves are green. In full sun.

A honey bee on an apple blossom in full sun. The bee is average to light colored. The flower has a tint of pink to it's whiteness.

A honey bee on an apple blossom. The bee is dark colored. The flower is pretty much just white.

A honey bee hanging from an apple blossom by one leg. The bee appeared to be stuck so I took it's photo.. then I gave it a nudge and it crawled on top of the flower. It is an average colored bee.. maybe a little light colored.

#bees #pollinators #AppleBlossom

**Tom** @firephoto@mastodon.social · Apr 23

Apr 23

Tom @firephoto@mastodon.social

Mostly finished with chopping out cottonwood suckers. The view of the orchard/pasture is much better now and the geese gave their approval (or flexing dominance from a distance).

A photo showing the view towards the orchard/pasture looking northeast. There is a yet to be removed very tall cottonwood sucker on the left, lilac suckers and lilac bush near the center, a scraggly juniper tree left of it, and a forsythia bush in the shadow on the right. Between the lilac and juniper is are fruit trees beyond a fence. In the foreground up high are english walnut branches with leaves emerging. Up high and in the left corner are yellow leaves/bloom of aus hybrid willows. The sky is mostly blue with some small clouds in the upper right area of the photo.

A view looking north at an apple tree with 3 gravenstein leaders and 1 jonathan leader grafted onto some random crab apple tree that grew from seed. There is a smaller but older tree to the right that is partially blooming that is likely a Spitz or hybrid type apple on it's own roots which means it grows really slow, plus it had physical damage from freezing weather with the water running that iced it up and it split from weight with apples on it one harvest season. There is a small EU type plum between the trees.

A view of the Gravenstein/Jonathan apple tree looking northwest. The grass free area to the left was a thicket of cottonwood suckers.

A view looking northeast showing a Gravenstein tree on the left, a Spitz graft tree in the near center, a Jonathan behind it to the right, and two geese next to their blue pools under the Jonathan. One of the geese is flapping his wings at the photographer. There's a silver birch, a couple of spruce type conifers, Lombardy poplars, Douglas fir, and rocks in the distant background. The upper left is dark and shadows of various trees.

#orchard #FruitTree #geese

**Rob Galpin** @Rob_Galpin@pixelfed.social · Apr 22

Apr 22

Rob Galpin @Rob_Galpin@pixelfed.social

Pear blossom as beautiful and foul-smelling as ever, in the #allotment
#AllotmentGarden #Organic #OrganicGarden #PearBlossom #Orchard #Garden #UrbanGarden #GardensOfPixelfed

#gardensofpixelfed

**Tom** @firephoto@mastodon.social · Apr 22

Apr 22

Tom @firephoto@mastodon.social

The view into the pasture/orchard is a bit better since I chopped/dug out a lot of the poplar/cottonwood suckers on Sunday. More to take out but I needed a break from swinging the axe and dragging brush so today I moved 250 liters of dirt twice, 4 arm loads of wood, 220 liters of sticks, and 150 liters of leaves... oh and 15 minutes of slicing sticks with the chainsaw for that one raised bed.

The the grafted Spitz apple is starting to bloom now too.

A photo showing a pasture with some fruit trees with willow and cottonwood beyond it up high. The sky is blue with some wispy clouds. There is an apple tree in full bloom in the lower left center. There's a clove currant in the lower left. A just starting to bloom Spitzenburg type apple tree near the lower right with a brooks plum behind it's trunk low. A comice pear blooming center low. A walnut with some buds growing close and lower center. The aus hybrid willows in the upper right are yellow colored. The old cottonwood center right high has many new green leaves along with some dead wood up high that will crash down randomly because it's a cottonwood. There's lots of things in this photo... you get the idea.

#gardening #orchard #AppleTree

**~meoralis~** @meoralis@pixelfed.social · Apr 20

**Permaculture and Politics** @Permacultureandpolitics@ohai.social · Apr 19

Apr 19

Permaculture and Politics @Permacultureandpolitics@ohai.social

Pink Pearl, an Albert Etter apple with pink and white flowers and pink and white flesh. Somewhat berry or pineapple flavored depending on the year. Like many early apples, it doesn’t keep long. #orchard #gardening #permaculture

Cluster of apple blossoms with pink edges and subtle pink to white centers. The buds on the edges of the frame are decidedly pink and rose.

**nannnsss @ Dirtfolk Farm** @nannnsss@homestead.social · Apr 19

Apr 19

nannnsss @ Dirtfolk Farm @nannnsss@homestead.social

This is my first spring on the land and dang... I wasn't expecting this kind of show from my backyard apple tree...
The bee friends were having a happy heyday.
#farm #homestead #orchard #honeybee #blossom