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any apples at Reavis this year?
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PostPosted: 9/27/2006, 5:35 pm    Post subject: any apples at Reavis this year? Reply to topic Reply with quote

I dont recall seeing many apples last year at Reavis, I guess they are bi-annual? So is this the year we may be seeing a healthy crop? Even though the trees are looking quite haggard these days the apples keep coming up in late summer.
Anybody been out there let us know! fingers crossed
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PostPosted: 9/27/2006, 8:01 pm    Post subject: Reply to topic Reply with quote

Hmmm, I thought George and Tommy were just there.
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PostPosted: 9/27/2006, 10:57 pm    Post subject: Reply to topic Reply with quote

We should just do an incognito (sp?) pruning hike to get them healthy. They just need some love. And water. Smile
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PostPosted: 9/28/2006, 3:19 am    Post subject: Reply to topic Reply with quote

DesertRoux wrote:
We should just do an incognito (sp?) pruning hike to get them healthy. They just need some love. And water. Smile

Amen to that. A few hours with a pruning pole would do wonders up there. That and a few hundred pounds of fertilizer.
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PostPosted: 9/28/2006, 6:00 am    Post subject: Reply to topic Reply with quote

Have a GHOTM there, get 20 people to each carry 10 lbs. of fertilizer, plus the pruning tools. I suspect you really would have to be a bit secretive about it, though.
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PostPosted: 9/28/2006, 6:01 am    Post subject: Reply to topic Reply with quote

With all the cowboy traffic that place gets when the apples are ready, you'd think they could haul some stuff in there once in a while to better their chances. But nooo, they're happier hauling in couches, refrigerators, regulation Army tents, and crap.

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PostPosted: 9/28/2006, 6:05 am    Post subject: Reply to topic Reply with quote

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Have a GHOTM there, get 20 people to each carry 10 lbs. of fertilizer, plus the pruning tools. I suspect you really would have to be a bit secretive about it, though.


Do all that work, just to have the cowboys come in the next year and take out mule/horse trains worth of apples out. I've heard they really clean that place out sometimes.
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PostPosted: 9/28/2006, 12:39 pm    Post subject: Reply to topic Reply with quote

You want apples? Come to Round Valley (Eagar/Springerville)! There are hundreds and hundreds of apple trees in everyone's yard (including mine) with apples going to waste. You can pick them by the sidewalk, and everywhere in town! You can knock on people's doors for permission to pick--they'll say "take all you want!" It was a bumper year for apples here! People also have yards full of big pumpkins, etc.
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PostPosted: 9/28/2006, 1:36 pm    Post subject: Reply to topic Reply with quote

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Have a GHOTM there, get 20 people to each carry 10 lbs. of fertilizer, plus the pruning tools. I suspect you really would have to be a bit secretive about it, though.


Do all that work, just to have the cowboys come in the next year and take out mule/horse trains worth of apples out. I've heard they really clean that place out sometimes.


Do we have any mules we could recruit ? Why not be the "cowboys"!
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PostPosted: 9/28/2006, 1:40 pm    Post subject: Reply to topic Reply with quote

desertgirl wrote:
Do we have any mules we could recruit ? Why not be the "cowboys"!


Don't you be looking that way at me... Eek
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PostPosted: 9/28/2006, 2:42 pm    Post subject: Reply to topic Reply with quote

HIG wrote:
But nooo, they're happier hauling in couches, refrigerators, regulation Army tents, and crap.

Confused


aint that the truth. I hear there are also apple trees up at some old ranch in the Sierra Ancha. Petersen ranch to be exact. Anyone been?
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PostPosted: 9/28/2006, 7:05 pm    Post subject: Reply to topic Reply with quote

I'm told the Forest Service objects to maintaining the apple trees, they are not native or compatible with Wilderness characteristics, so you are right, being a bit secretive would be important.
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PostPosted: 9/28/2006, 7:16 pm    Post subject: Reply to topic Reply with quote

When was the last time you saw a Forest Service person at the ranch? I've seen them doing maintenance on the trail, but never as far as the ranch.

I'll be heading out there in a couple of weeks. I'll report back with some pics, unless anyone is going sooner.
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PostPosted: 9/28/2006, 7:23 pm    Post subject: Reply to topic Reply with quote

We'd be there the end of october
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PostPosted: 9/28/2006, 7:40 pm    Post subject: Reply to topic Reply with quote

Good point on FS in the field, just doesn't happen much, especially on weekends.
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