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["Randall Burd" <burdrs@comcast.net>]

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I have several varieties of apples on M27 rootstock in containers. I am training these using a slender spindle method by winding the central leader up a stack in the containers. The problem that I am facing is the the lower scaffold branches are becoming quite wide and probably need to be shortened to prevent the trees from engulfing each other.

 

I have looked at Gene's M27 strategies at: http://www.midfex.org/yale/dwarf.html and like what he has done.

 

Any thoughts on other pruning strategies that I might consider? Thanks.

 

Randy

Jersey gardener