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[charles paradise <machelp@attglobal.net>]

Bruce, [and others who may comment],
Do you use a seedling for your apple rootstocks to get that acacia look?
Would you say you are using umbrella training?
Is M111 a large enough tree roostock to support your type training, or would 
only a seedling
rootstock yield the desired height?
Are your trees in Michigan rather unique for your area?   I would doubt you 
know any other
growers who train their trees in such a way.   Would love a link to a picture.

Charlie Paradise
zone 5/Massachusetts

Bruce Hansen wrote:

> Charlie:
>
> Piece of cake. I have about 400 trees and they all have that acacia look. It
> is really kind of nice. I use tree tubes for my young stock. Now the only
> problem I have with deer are the city folk who hunt.
>
> Bruce  Z5 MI
>
> -----Original Message-----
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> [mailto:nafex-bounces@lists.ibiblio.org]On Behalf Of Charles Paradise
> Sent: Monday, March 24, 2003 1:19 PM
> To: North American Fruit Explorers
> Subject: [NAFEX] Grow fruit higher than deer can reach?
>
> Suppose I conceded that in a particular orchard deer would occasionally
> get in and browse my proposed planting of apple and pear trees.
>
> You may have seen pictures of trees grown on the African savanna, where
> the tree is leafless up to about eight feet high, then the foliage
> grows with the bottom branches looking like they are growing flat on a
> tabletop, because the foraging animals below have gnawed everything
> they could reach up to.  So the first 8 feet of the growing tree has
> been conceded to the wild animals in Africa.
>
> For an example of how this browsed tree looks in Africa, see:
> http://www.blueplanetbiomes.org/acacia_tortillis.htm
>
> I'm asking for opinions about the practicality of growing apples and
> pears on standard seedling rootstocks, and trimming so the first
> branches occur several feet off the ground - not easy, I know, for
> pruning and harvesting - but as a proposed way of avoiding the
> necessity of repelling deer.
>
> So, what's your opinion?    Possible?   Practical or impractical?
>
> Charlie Paradise
> zone 5/Massachusetts
>
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