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  • From: Ginda Fisher <ginda@concentric.net>
  • To: nafex@yahoogroups.com
  • Subject: Re: [nafex] Columnar apples
  • Date: Wed, 09 May 2001 20:10:29 -0400

Miller advertises them as needing a pollinator, and even sells one that
is ONLY for pollen. (Unless you think a flowered pole is ornamental.)
I have a friend who put in one of each (of Miller's) a few years ago.
She isn't thrilled with them, but they are columnar with little (if any)
pruning. I don't think she's gotten much fruit off them, and is
thinking of getting rid of them.

Ginda

dwalsh/wchase wrote:
>
> Joe,
>
> I agree that the columnar apple trees are a marketer's mirage. The ones
> I've seen
> definitely grow branches and these must be cut off early and the person who
> buys
> this does not know it ... result is a dwarf semi-branched apple tree with
> bland-tasting fruit.
>
> Also, they are marketed as stand-alone apple trees, but they are not
> self-fertile.
>
> Derry
>
> Derry Walsh & Bill Chase email:wchase@interchange.ubc.ca
> Aldergrove, B. C., Canada
> phone/fax (604) 856-9316
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> :
> : My two cents is that the columnar form stinks for raising quality
> : fruit. One vertical with
> : many 6" side branches and fruit on side branches. Roger's kept pushing
> : vigorous side branches at 30 degrees from vertical which then competed
> : with the central leader. Stark's response was that the grower had to
> : prune them to make them look like the picture in the catalog. Roger was
> : put-out because he could prune *any* tree to look like the picture.
> :
> Columnar apples are an
> : bad idea that was some Madison Avenue types used as a gimmick to foist
> : trees onto the naive public.
>
> :
> : -Joe Hecksel
> : Eaton Rapids, Michigan
>
>
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