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  • From: Tom Olenio <tolenio@sentex.net>
  • To: North American Fruit Explorers <nafex@lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [NAFEX] Why not own rooted apples?
  • Date: Tue, 06 Apr 2004 13:49:45 -0400

Hi Claude,

My boys (9 & 11) did climb to help prune, but even they could not reach a lot
of the pruning. The eleven year old is already complaining as it is now
"work", and no longer fun. I can see the teen years coming already. (smile)

You still have snow in Quebec?

Later,
Tom

Claude Jolicoeur wrote:

> Tom,
> I would guess you don't have children aged between 6 and 12...
> They are excellent reasons to grow full sized trees - when you see the
> amount of pleasure a group of kids have harvesting apples, five or six of
> them climbed in the same tree, agile and light enough to get to the
> farthest apples, you can't think anything else than how great a full sized
> tree is.
> In my opinion, it fully compensates for the added difficulty - but I agree
> it is less efficient. It all depends on what you expect from your trees.
>
> Claude
>
> A 13:27 04.04.06 -0400, vous avez écrit :
> >>>>
>
> Hi,
>
> Why don't you want starndard sized apple trees? I have 3 reasons for
> you...
>
> Just finished pruning three old, standard sized apple trees planted in
> 1918. My legs are exhausted from being on the ladder for hours, my thighs
> and legs are bruised, from leaning against the ladder, and I pulled a
> muscle climbing to the crown of one of them to get suckers inaccessible by
> ladder.
>
> A standard tree can reach to 40-45 feet. I was only dealing with 30'
> trees.
>
> Unless you keep a standard sized tree trained low, it takes all the
> fun out of keeping them.
>
> Plus, who knows how much spray gets to the top of the tree, or the
> reduced/spoiled fruit production you cannot reach for harvest.
>
> Hmmm... That is 5 reasons;
> * exhaustion from pruning
> * bruising from pruning
> * cuts/scrapes/strains from pruning
> * spraying 40' up
> * unreachable fruit
> That doesn't go into the sense of joy you feel, way up on a wobbly
> ladder. (smile) I tried not to think about how long a broken bone would
> take to heal while up on that ladder.
>
> I hope to convince my inlaws to remove the old trees this summer, and
> put in more dwarfs.
>
> Later,
> Tom
>
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Thomas Olenio
Ontario, Canada
Hardiness Zone 5b






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