My potted honeycrisp is starting to open. The deer got a few of the early blossoms, but there's a handful of them remaining. I don't have a pollinator for it out back yet so I'm going to move the pot out front under the crabapple this weekend and then I'll plant the honeycrisp in its planned location. Empire is a pretty good pollinator for it...how do you like it? I know it's fairly disease resistant so I've considered getting one of those. The local Agway has a few nice ones already pruned the way I would do it so I considered going that route. The other one I considered was a crimson crisp.
3 of my 4 pawpaws are beginning to leaf out so they survived the winter. The KSU-Atwood isn't looking too healthy. There's a couple of nodes above the graft that may have life left in it, but I'm not too confident. If it's completely dead above the graft I'll just rip it out and replant with another 1 of the 5 I have arriving on Thursday.