Nick Mark, MD @nick

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**The Man-Machine** @manmachine@metapixl.com · 1d

The Man-Machine @manmachine@metapixl.com

#Pink #AppleTree #BloomScrolling #GoldenHour #Macro

#macro

**Swift** @swift@sunny.garden · 6d *

6d *

Swift @swift@sunny.garden

Help, what's up with my apple #tree ?

The leaves on the new growth of branches look diseased. Photo shows example, they have a white fuzz on them and they will curl up and wither. I have a feeling it spreads back down the branch throughout the year, but unsure. It usually hosts massive colonies(?) of some sort of larvae, not sure what, covered in a silk like web. Perhaps this is it? Or perhaps they are attracted to the white stuff?

The apples grow with scabs on their skins. Related?

Photo of the apple tree taken in April. It's a close up of some leaves described in post.

#botany #appleTree #gardening

**Tom** @firephoto@mastodon.social · 6d

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 · 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

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

**Drunkonty** @Drunkonty@pixelfed.social · Apr 26

Apr 26

Drunkonty @Drunkonty@pixelfed.social

#nature #blossom #appletree #Ukraine

#ukraine

**Jessica Jenney** @JessJenney@mastodon.social · Apr 24 *

Apr 24 *

Jessica Jenney @JessJenney@mastodon.social

Spring has Sprung

For sale here:
https://jessicajenney.com/featured/spring-has-sprung-jessica-jenney.html

A gorgeous spring day at the New York Botanical Garden. Vibrant pink cherry blossoms and crabapple dominate the scene, with a lush carpet of yellow daffodils spread beneath them. White blossoms are visible in the background, contributing to the serene and colorful springtime display.

#spring #springtime #may

**La Visch** @LaVisch@mastodon.social · Apr 23

Apr 23

La Visch @LaVisch@mastodon.social

My apple tree has blossom!

Close-up of a few white- and-pink blossoms on an apple tree. The sky that is visible is very blue.

#Garden #AppleTree #AppleBlossom

**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

**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

**SeanGeil** @SeanGeil@mastodon.social · Apr 20

Apr 20

SeanGeil @SeanGeil@mastodon.social

#sunrise in my #garden ; #eastersunday #gardening #apple #appletree

**Tom** @firephoto@mastodon.social · Apr 17

Apr 17

Tom @firephoto@mastodon.social

Bees in the Gravenstein apples and the Brooks plum. Looked like maybe a few migratory bees around today. Pear orchards are blooming and the cherries are just starting to.

A photo of an open apple blossom with a honey bee in it and another bee flying below it.

A photo of an apple blossom with a bee up in it. There are unopened ones nearby. It is sunny. The sky is clear.

A honey bee in a Brooks plum tree blossom.

#BloomScrollingWithBee #bees #HoneyBee

**Tom** @firephoto@mastodon.social · Apr 17

Apr 17

Tom @firephoto@mastodon.social

The Comice pear has open blooms and the Spitzenburg apple tree that's on it's own roots is showing some pink.

A photo showing two open comice pear blossoms. They have white petals with some yellow and pink bits inside. There are many unopened blossoms around them and new shiny pear leaves.

A photo showing unopened Esopus Spitzenburg apple blossoms. They are pink to red color emerging from fuzzy gray sepals on a long stem. The view is from the side.

#orchard #FruitBlossom #PearBlossom

**Tom** @firephoto@mastodon.social · Apr 16

Apr 16

Tom @firephoto@mastodon.social

One Jonathan apple blossom open. It's on the 1 out of 4 branches/leaders of a Gravenstein tree. I guess some of the early Gravenstein bloom will be pollinated.

A photo showing one open apple blossom that has a honey bee on it. It is a Jonathan apple blossom that's on a multi grafted tree.

#orchard #AppleTree #AppleBlossom

**Tom** @firephoto@mastodon.social · Apr 16

Apr 16

Tom @firephoto@mastodon.social

The first blossoms are open on the Gravenstein apple trees.

A photo showing two open apple blossoms. The flowers are white when open and look pink before they open. There are several unopened flowers around the open ones that appear as round blobs.

A photo showing one open apple blossom. There are several unopened blossoms nearby that are pink looking.

#gardening #orchard #AppleTrees

**Tom** @firephoto@mastodon.social · Apr 11

Apr 11

Tom @firephoto@mastodon.social

Gravenstein scion wood from 2024 that's been in the refrigerator. I saw a forum post mentioning they had some old scion wood that was callused up so I went and looked at mine and some of it was callused up so I stuck it in some water and put a bag over it the other day. It was already leafed out and I didn't expect those to turn green but they did. Wait and see if the callus grows roots.