But I capitalized my short acronym . LL - Lime Light

Had I wanted to say little lime, would have said ll. (LOL)

My thinking is Little Quickfire and regular along with Pink Winky are the Best non Floggers also the new Firelight...Just Saying

I was waiting for someone to bring up the winterize and cardboard method ;-) I still can't wrap my head on that as the lowest stems that get snow mounded on mine, they more or less remain horizontal vs. VERT once they have been kept down.

I ended up grabbing some stakes and gave it some tying. It ain't pretty but it will be a experiment I suppose.

Hyed. I did see that post where you bought the LL tree this year. I did say to myself me wonders why you went the standard route ? In the pics with your multistem, you get many more branching

Hi a1an, have done the cardboard, works will bounce right back ...no more Winter protection just to much work... about the Tree at $90 i couldn’t PASS

Nice pic Hyed. My monitor must be breaking down. I see some blue blossoms ;-/

I planted a new LL standard as well this year - cause I could not find a firelight and did not want to walk away empty. It's ahmazing that even it's 1st year, once get's blooms on them eh. Too bad it ain't blue. I guess one could always spray paint them .....

Paging Hyed. Just wondering since you're in the same northeast corridor. Is your standard budded or natural. How long was the main stem ?

My 1st plantings of LL trees were natural but it seems like recent/current growing stock, seem to err on 2-2 1/2" ft high stems and budded stems. Me wonders is this a new northeast norm - then again, the local growers is probably not going to be the same local growers as you are (unless they all get their stock from someplace much warmer and plant them bare root )

Hi, a1an not sure of what your saying, when buying in May no buds , from ground to top it stands 68”

The -trunk- from ground to where branching starts. How high/tall is the trunk/primary stem before branching begins. Hope this makes sense

a1an.....30”

thanx. May 2' - 2 1/2 is indeed the new northeast norm ?

Oopsie. I missed you other reply. I meant to word it ~grafted~. The new norm on LL trees seen at the local nurseries seem to be all grafted and short stock. All the VS standards I looked at this year seemed natural. Only the LL were grafted stock