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We have an apple tree with a few main stems and a few suckers (soon to go).
My aim is to make the tree fan shaped, with only one stem and a darn sight less branches than now. My problem I have never pruned an apple before. Any advise other than ground levelling is welcome & sought. Jim in warm Toowoomba (the fire is on at the moment) -- Posted on news://freenews.netfront.net - Complaints to -- |
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On Sat, 26 Jul 2008 16:56:27 +1000, SG1 wrote:
We have an apple tree with a few main stems and a few suckers (soon to go). My aim is to make the tree fan shaped, with only one stem and a darn sight less branches than now. My problem I have never pruned an apple before. Any advise other than ground levelling is welcome & sought. Jim in warm Toowoomba (the fire is on at the moment) Well,from what I remember of Peter cundals on Gardening Australias, you basically brought the single main stem up a coupleof eet fron the ground, then branched it. he was doing a cup frame, to open the middle for sunlight (or was that other fruit. Usually if you do a fan and want it flat you tie/stake it to a flat serface or tellis to train it. |
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In article , "SG1"
wrote: We have an apple tree with a few main stems and a few suckers (soon to go). My aim is to make the tree fan shaped, with only one stem and a darn sight less branches than now. My problem I have never pruned an apple before. Any advise other than ground levelling is welcome & sought. Try the Gardening Australia website. Which reminds me -- it's pruning time for roses and fuchsias, and I've never pruned my fuchsia hard. Must look it up. -- Chookie -- Sydney, Australia (Replace "foulspambegone" with "optushome" to reply) http://chookiesbackyard.blogspot.com/ |
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"SG1" wrote in message
... We have an apple tree with a few main stems and a few suckers (soon to go). My aim is to make the tree fan shaped, with only one stem and a darn sight less branches than now. My problem I have never pruned an apple before. Any advise other than ground levelling is welcome & sought. Jim in warm Toowoomba (the fire is on at the moment) i was quite worried before i ever pruned anything, too! in fact, you'll find it's all quite logical once you start. you need to choose which will be the "main" stem & then you have to choose branches or buds to be the other remaining branches. be aware that you're normally looking for outward-facing buds to be the new branches - at any rate when you have your shape in mind, prune down to the buds that will grow into branches facing where you want them to grow to, & do this on every branch. prune off everything you really don't want. voila! you can also rub off buds growing in the wrong place - much easier than pruning them later (same with suckers). my best advice is to step back often & check you're making the right shape overall! it's easy to go too far if you are micro-focussing :-) normally, the only things you'd prune this time of year are roses & grape vines; so unless the "rules" are different in qld, wait until early spring is better, that way the tree will be growing again & will recover easily. at this point, there will be flower buds too probably - not to be confused with leaf buds. leaf buds are pointy & flower buds are round, so that is quite simple too. kylie |
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"Chookie" wrote in message
Which reminds me -- it's pruning time for roses and fuchsias, and I've never pruned my fuchsia hard. Must look it up. Only in warm climates. Roses shouldn't be pruned now in cold climates (more like late August) and fuschias are all still tucked up under cover if they are the more modern varieties. |
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"FarmI" ask@itshall be given wrote: "Chookie" wrote in message Which reminds me -- it's pruning time for roses and fuchsias, and I've never pruned my fuchsia hard. Must look it up. Only in warm climates. Roses shouldn't be pruned now in cold climates (more like late August) and fuschias are all still tucked up under cover if they are the more modern varieties. Sorry -- forgot you aren't so fortunate as to live in Sydney. -- Chookie -- Sydney, Australia (Replace "foulspambegone" with "optushome" to reply) http://chookiesbackyard.blogspot.com/ |
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"Chookie" wrote in message news:ehrebeniuk-479E4B.20323631072008@news... In article , "FarmI" ask@itshall be given wrote: "Chookie" wrote in message Which reminds me -- it's pruning time for roses and fuchsias, and I've never pruned my fuchsia hard. Must look it up. Only in warm climates. Roses shouldn't be pruned now in cold climates (more like late August) and fuschias are all still tucked up under cover if they are the more modern varieties. Sorry -- forgot you aren't so fortunate as to live in Sydney. -- Chookie -- Sydney, Australia (Replace "foulspambegone" with "optushome" to reply) http://chookiesbackyard.blogspot.com/ Do people actually live in sinney??? I thought they meerly existed!!!!! -- Posted on news://freenews.netfront.net - Complaints to -- |
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wrote: Do people actually live in sinney??? I thought they meerly existed!!!!! What, with our wonderful museums, galleries, the beaches, the beautiful national parks around us, the botanical gardens, good conditions for gardening... certainly I can live here, and live well! The only problem is the noxious weeds infesting Macquarie Street, but those aren't all indigenous. For example, I believe the Spiky Costa is an import from Newcastle. -- Chookie -- Sydney, Australia (Replace "foulspambegone" with "optushome" to reply) http://chookiesbackyard.blogspot.com/ |
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"Chookie" wrote in message news:ehrebeniuk-694CA1.17593901082008@news... In article , "SG1" wrote: Do people actually live in sinney??? I thought they meerly existed!!!!! What, with our wonderful museums, galleries, the beaches, the beautiful national parks around us, the botanical gardens, good conditions for gardening... certainly I can live here, and live well! The only problem is the noxious weeds infesting Macquarie Street, but those aren't all indigenous. For example, I believe the Spiky Costa is an import from Newcastle. -- Chookie -- Sydney, Australia (Replace "foulspambegone" with "optushome" to reply) http://chookiesbackyard.blogspot.com/ Sorry Chookie I left Newcastle in 1979 and NSW in 1980 headed north. Then norther (Darwin) then the southern oasis (Melb) eventually found Qld again for the last 18 years. Lived in the western subs of sinney in the 1960s. Would not trade all that culture for the freedom that is Qld...... -- Posted on news://freenews.netfront.net - Complaints to -- |
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On Fri, 01 Aug 2008 20:35:34 +1000, SG1 wrote:
Would not trade all that culture for the freedom that is Qld...... Sadly, we regularly see freedom in Qld featured on the news, where the Qld police demonstrated they are still as stupid as the time they beat up a monk at the train station. Apparently he must have been a dangerous subversive as he was wearing a brown cassock. Otherwise, yer, Qld could be a nice place to live. all that sun is mightily attrctive as the bones get older. |
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