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Apple Custom Budding and Contract Growing

Moser Fruit Tree Sales has always been able to place large contracts of fruit trees, over 1000, with our normal suppliers, but now we are able to handle smaller custom, contract needs from 10 to 300 trees.

How many times have you run into the problem of trying to get just a few trees of an old apple variety or cultivar?

Sometimes, we can find that same variety for you, but too often the cultivar has been discontinued or dropped from production.  Sometimes, the original nursery doesn't even have scionwood available anymore.

Moser Fruit Tree Sales can now offer you some help.  If you are looking for a small amount of that special variety, not currently available in the trade, or maybe not available on the rootstock you prefer, we may be able to bud and grow some for you.  We specialize in semi-dwarf Geneva 30, EMLA 7, EMLA 106 and dwarf Bud 9 rootstocks.  If you contact us early enough, other roots may be available too.

    Let us know the specific combination of cultivar and rootstock.  We may not be able to propagate any varieties or cultivars, still protected by current plant patents, unless we can get proper licenses from the patent owners, but we can do many antique, heritage, and older apple varieties that no longer are readily available.  In most cases, you supply us the budwood so that we are sure that we will be doing the specific cultivar that you need, but we are in the process of establishing a diverse scionwood orchard of heritage, antique, cider, and hard-to-find- original strains of apples.

If you have a new discovery, either a seedling or a sport, of something that you think is unique or special, and want a small quantity of trees we can grow them for you.  We can also help evaluate it and work with our major nursery partners to determine its commercial potential and develop it further.

While we speculate on a certain quantity of roots, we need to know your needs as soon as possible.  Budding starts in August, and we must have your choice of rootstock planted and available in the quantities you need by that previous spring.  

Please contact us for pricing, terms, and conditions of sale.  Small quantities are usually anywhere from 5 to 300 finished trees.  For more than 300, we can probably arrange one of our nursery partners to grow this larger quantity.

Click for more detailed information regarding contract growing of trees.  (PDF file requires Adobe Acrobat Reader)

Click for 2008 MFTS Grown Bareroot Tree Prices and Pre-bud/ Post-bud Contract Pricing.  (PDF File requires Adobe Acrobat Reader)

Click for 2009 MFTS Grown Bareroot Tree Prices and Pre-bud/ Post-bud Contract Pricing.  (PDF File requires Adobe Acrobat Reader)

Click for a listing of most varieties available to bud from Moser's Scion wood Block.  (PDF File requires Adobe Acrobat Reader)

Top-left picture--- Geneva 30 ready to bud.                Bottom-right picture--- Finished trees ready to dig in the fall.

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11/25/2007