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Top worked my apple...results so far

10 years ago
last modified: 10 years ago

This is almost all graft growth from March through May of this year. I've left some longer branches to graft to next year.

Got a little OCD and there's about 15-20 varieties added. Cull out he weak/disease prone and not grand tasting ones as time passes.

tree was about 20' tall and about 20' wide in March.

I'm pretty happy with the growth. Any suggestions now to ensure the keep grafts healthy? Windy might be a problem. Already lost a few.

To to encourage fruiting Spurs, should I cut side branches of the grafts back to 3-6 leaves or a certain length? I think this will take some of the bulk out of the equation and help with wind. Some grafts have 4' of growth and lots of branching beginning.

I used bark/rhind grafting for most Grafts and nailed/stapled some of the grafts in where they couldn't be secured by tape of some kind (tree limbs bumpy and hard to get a good hold when wrapping) grafts are really growing at the join area and splitting the bark

Thanks!

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