[NAFEX] one year wood apples
Lon J. Rombough
lonrom at hevanet.com
Thu Apr 29 00:00:40 EDT 2010
Tree pruned in January 2009. Grew many new shoots. Now, in April 2010
the shoots are blooming. The difference is that while other apples may
bloom at 4 -6 buds (about 20% of the buds, at most) on a 3 foot one
year shoot, over 90 to 95% of the buds on the red crab shoots have
flower clusters. And even with the huge load of apples that gives, the
tree never goes biennial.
I have plenty of apples that produce *some* blooms on one year shoots,
but that crab is leagues ahead of them. Nor are the fruits tiny,
useless things. Most are large enough to eat out of hand.
-Lon Rombough
Grapes, writing, consulting, my book, The Grape Grower, at
http://www.bunchgrapes.com Winner of the Garden Writers Association
"Best Talent in Writing" award for 2003.
Grape pruning video: http://www.bunchgrapes.com/dvd.html View a short,
low resolution clip here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Q58zFY0B1M
A video about The Grape Grower :
http://cookingupastory.com/index.php/2008/04/18/the-grape-grower/
On Apr 28, 2010, at 2:25 PM, Alan Haigh wrote:
Lon, I think of one year wood as last years wood though It's 2 year
wood once the apples are there. Are you saying these apples bear on
same year shoots? That would be amazing and something I've never seen
of any spring flowering tree fruit besides mulberries. I assume you
are not talking about last years wood because fruit their is fairly
common.
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