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["Dr. Lucky Pittman" <lucky.pittman@murraystate.edu>]

On your friend's crab, are you talking water sprouts, or suckers?

They're quite different, but, IMO, management is essentially the same -
prune off water sprouts, prune or pull out suckers.

-----Original Message-----
From: nafex-bounces@lists.ibiblio.org
[mailto:nafex-bounces@lists.ibiblio.org] On Behalf Of Ginda Fisher
Sent: Wednesday, April 27, 2011 4:25 PM
To: NAFEX Fruit Explorers
Subject: [NAFEX] managing apple trees

This is really a problem a friend is having with an ornamental crab apple,
but I assume those are managed similarly to eating apples, so I hope this
isn't too off-topic.

My friend has an "ornamental" crab apple which looks ugly, mostly because it
grows enormous numbers of water shoots.  Is there any way to control that?
I asked what sort of apple it was, and she said is was whatever Home Depot
sold when they were landscaping 20 years ago.

Thanks,
Ginda
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