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  • From: tanis grif <tanisgrif@yahoo.com>
  • To: North American Fruit Explorers <nafex@lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [NAFEX] Stardard Apple Pruning
  • Date: Wed, 16 Mar 2005 14:03:56 -0800 (PST)

If you are tired too, tell your father-in-law. Get him to hire some young
kid to
continue to prune off the suckers. (These suckers & knots could have been
prevented
by summer-pruning, years ago, but probably too late now. Would be a project,
to
convert...) If the kid is interested in orcharding, teach him or her
grafting; get
the father-in-law involved in a project of grafting the big old trees onto new
rootstocks. If he sees the benefits of this, he may get the idea himself to
remove
the old trees. Everybody wins?


--- Thomas Olenio <> wrote:

>
> Hello.
>
> My father inlaw has a mix of dwarf and standard sized apple trees. At age
> 78 he relented and allowed me to prune the standard trees. His knees are
> bad, and he has no business being on a ladder.
>
> Anyway, many of the standard trees have knots of suckers in their crowns.
> The knots having formed from years and yeats of sucker pruning.
>
> Should these knots be sawn off, or just prune the sucker?
>
> Sawing off the knot will remove the knot and all of last seasons suckers
> growing from the knot. However, it is a lot of work to saw them all off.
> Individual sucker removal is difficult too as the knots make it difficult
> to get at the base of the suckers.
>
> Which is the correct approach?
>
> My approach would be to take down the standards and replace them with
> dwarfs. but the trees have sentimental value to my father inlaw.
>
> I tired right now from wrestling with a standard Macintosh that did not
> bear fruit last year, but put all it's energy into suckers (biennial).
> Arrrgggh!
>
> Any suggestions?
>
> Later,
> Tom
>




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