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The best time to prune an apple tree is during late winter or early spring after the fruit has been harvested. Apple trees are susceptible to many diseases, and because pruning involves leaving ...
Traditionally, February has been an ideal time to prune and train neglected apple trees, not only for better fruit, the overall appearance of the landscape, but for the health of the tree.
A community apple orchard originally planted for productive use during the 1920s, in Westcliff on Sea (Essex, England), illustrating long neglected trees that have recently been pruned to renew their health and cropping potential. Fruit tree pruning is the cutting and removing of selected parts of a fruit tree.
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In addition to propagating trees on rootstocks designed to control size/vigour and confer disease resistance, grafting above the rootstock can be used to provide multiple cultivars of a single species, known as a family tree, or, within certain limits, cultivars of different fruit species on one tree, often known as a fruit salad tree.
In the case of temperate fruit trees, the "pomes and stones" rule for rotation should be observed- don't follow a "pome" fruit (with an apple-type core—apples, pears, medlar, quince) with a tree from the same group. A "stone" fruit (i.e., with a plum-type stone, such as plum, cherry, peach, apricot, almond) should be all right, and vice versa ...
Apple Tree. Zones 3 to 10. Requires more than one tree for pollination. With hundreds of varieties, choose one that thrives in your region. Your local nursery or university coop extension service ...
It has been said that the name derives from Edmond-Charles Genet, a Frenchman who gave cuttings to Jefferson, who then passed them on to Virginia nurseryman Caleb Ralls, but this claim, cited here from 1905, was not made until about 100 years after the apple became known and may not be accurate.