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[Ginda Fisher <list@ginda.us>]

I transplanted the tree yesterday.  I was very surprised when I pulled out 
the old tree, as the top was still alive (but completely dormant.)  As I 
described below, the bark turned brown and a little wrinkled below the point 
of the infection, and the trunk (stem? It was only about 3/4 inch thick) 
looked dead, and some of the woody parts of the root system looked rotted.  
But ABOVE the wound the bark looked okay, and when I damaged the bark a 
little pulling it out, the cambium looked green and healthy.  I took some 
photos if anyone is curious.

The dead tree was either and Ashmeads Kernal on M7 of a GOlden Russet on G30, 
alas, my records don't say which it was, and the tag is completely illegible.

Ginda
who checked the irrigation system yesterday, as presumably the newly 
transplanted -- already leafed out tree -- will need a lot of water this year.

p.s.  Besides "lots of water", any advice for helping the new tree, which is 
a Karmijn de Sonneville on M7?

Begin forwarded message:

> From: Ginda Fisher <list@ginda.us>
> Date: May 6, 2011 7:53:47 PM EDT
> To: NAFEX Fruit Explorers <nafex@lists.ibiblio.org>
> Subject: [NAFEX] transplanting a young apple tree
> Reply-To: North American Fruit Explorers <nafex@lists.ibiblio.org>
> 
> Last spring I planted an apple tree in a spot that doesn't get enough light.
> 
> Last summer a young apple tree died in a spot that gets more light.  I'm 
> not sure what it died from.  I tried to trim away a "stump" from a cleft 
> graft, and it looked like the tree was infected at the wound and the 
> infection spread killing the tree.  I wondered if it might be fireblight, 
> but I didn't see anything that looked like the descriptions I've read of 
> fireblight, the stem just sort of turned dark and died.
> 
> Can I pull out that tree and move the other one to its spot?  What is the 
> best time to to that?  Any special concerns?
> 
> Thanks,
> Ginda
> eastern MA, zone 6, where the apples are in full bloom.  (as is everything 
> else)