I placed an order today online w/ 3 different WI nurseries. The only thing I couldn't find were pears & apricots, possibly because they weren't my zone (4) or were sold out because I'm so late ordering for this year. The 3 I bought from today, which all had very good websites, were:
Paint Creek Nursery (Cadott)
Fox River Valley Nursery (DePere)
Chief River Nursery (Grafton).
This is my first time ordering from Frank's Fox River Valley Nursery & from Chief River.


This year I'm going to use root gel.
I'm hopeful I don't need to water as much as last year.

Fedco out of Maine. never have lost a tree that I have bought from them.

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You looking for a sweet cherry or a Pie cherry?

I have well over 100 sour cherry trees. My ditchline made by springs is full of cherry trees. The trees spread by roots and pits. The cherries make excellent pies. The trees bear fruit in 3 to 4 years.





Keith

Not sure the time but once a year the Missouri conservation sells saplings and you can order off line I believe. They have a huge nursery next town over all kinds of varieties and bundles you can get. Maybe to late this year since I don't remember the time lines but if you would like I could probably get you a number to call and ask how it all works

I’ve used this one with good results for arborvitae and pear trees.

http://wallace-woodstock.com/

Hmm... I see Wallace-Woodstock has some apricot trees for my zone. I maybe should try some of them for deer & my own eating pleasure

Willis orchard in GA, Just got my three in one cherry tree. My previous cherry trees all died the same year planted, they alwaysrrplace them

I went to my property today & was saddened to see both apple trees I planted last year got girdled terribly. I guess the tree tubes I used weren't nearly tall enough. Rabbits or mice is my guess. It sure is hard growing fruit trees. Maybe apple trees are more susceptible to this than other fruit, I'm not sure. I don't think either will make it. I wonder if nut trees are also susceptible to rodent chewing. Maybe I should have wrapped the bark on these instead of relying on a tree tube that ended up being too short. Thing is, they weren't that short of tree tubes. We had a lot of snow this year.

I just ordered 20 chestnut seedlings (12-18" tall) from my local county ag extension office for $1 each. They had several fruit trees available too but I only need the chestnuts this year.

I use 5ft tubes for all deciduous trees. Only thing you have to watch for is mice getting under the tube or chewing thru the vent holes. Be sure when planting that the tubes are a good 2-3" in the soil so they can go under them.

I've had both happen. They killed about 1/2 of my Apples by girdling them when inside the tube. But more fortunately they don't seem to like the taste of Oak bark so they leave the Oak trees alone when they get into the tubes.
I have taken to putting 12" x 1/4" hardware cloth around the bottom to keep the mice from chewing thru the tubes. Only way to be sure mice don't get in them.

I do not know about Nut Trees but here in WV all of my Apple Trees are attacked by Bear and Hogs. My Cherry trees up on the Mountain have all of the tops busted out of them. The Stupid Bears will lay in the tops and eat their fill and the ones they can't get to they ride it down and break the tops out of them. Since my wife got that Great Dane though the Apple trees are safe!!

Mehrayban Nursery in NY

Thanks for the info. I'll look into see if I can find some good taller tree tubes

I ordered more trees online & I'm hoping I learned my lesson on these 2 apple trees because I'd sure hate to have this happen again.

Whether the culprit is mice or rabbits I am not sure, but I need to avoid such problems again.

I might try this tree wrap too:

I've never tried this kind of tree wrap

I'll second that statement.

This place is in my home town ….. they use a Russian rootstock ….. I have had good luck with their trees …

I didn't think Russian rootstock would be considered a good thing

That tree is NOT lost! I deal with this every Spring. Wrap the area as tightly as possible with masking tape. Use your hand to get it as tight to the trunk as possible and work out as many air bubbles as you can. Give it 2 or 3 wraps and the tree usually survives and will easily break the masking tape as it grows. I have done this successfully many times. The key is to get them wrapped up before the tree tries budding out so the earlier the better.

GREAT ADVICE ^^^ sometimes if apple trees hit a zone where they are alive, but stagnant, you can shock them by damaging the bar similar to that, and they will really take off