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["Ginda Fisher" <list@ginda.us>]

She said water sprouts.  She's very frustrated with the amount of 
pruning the tree requires, and the 'ugly' shape it has.

-- GindaOn Apr 29, 2011 10:28 AM, Dr. Lucky Pittman 
<lucky.pittman@murraystate.edu> wrote: 

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.



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[mailto:nafex-bounces@lists.ibiblio.org] On Behalf Of Ginda Fisher

Sent: Wednesday, April 27, 2011 4:25 PM

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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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