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Post by richardw on Feb 22, 2014 23:32:13 GMT -5
I'm not to worried to much about this apple as it was going to be cut down,stump poisoned and replaced with something else,but i'm curious why its loosing its leaves.   |
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Post by Joseph Lofthouse on Feb 23, 2014 6:51:06 GMT -5
If it was in my garden and I added 6 months I would say that fall is imminent: Especially if the tree is a summer apple.
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Post by richardw on Feb 23, 2014 12:15:50 GMT -5
No i dont think it is Joseph,it had no fruit this summer but when it does its a autumn ripening apple,a tart one at that too,its never lost leaves in summer before,oh well,the chainsaw will be taken to it soon,got plenty of replacements to go in its place.
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Post by copse on Feb 23, 2014 16:42:21 GMT -5
How are you finding your levels of fruit in general?
All of my trees are too young to fruit yet, but the nearby roadside trees that were laden with fruit (or had a carpet of rotting fruit under them) last autumn have very few apples this year. I'm assuming because of the winds earlier in the year.
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Post by richardw on Feb 23, 2014 18:10:36 GMT -5
Its only a young free but last year it had heaps,its only a seedling grown,what i'm doing is as soon as they produce an apple i know then if its to be kept or cut down and replaced.
The other apples are loaded also
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Post by steev on Feb 24, 2014 1:11:47 GMT -5
It has clearly sensed your malign intent and resigned itself. Plants are smarter than people think. Plants are smarter than people; think.
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Post by richardw on Feb 24, 2014 12:48:25 GMT -5
Well there you go,i obviously sensed that it must have lacked any self-preservation,what a gutless mongrel.
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Post by steev on Feb 25, 2014 2:33:19 GMT -5
Poor baby; best to be done with it; could you top-graft the rootstock, so as not to lose so much time?
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Post by richardw on Feb 25, 2014 3:57:30 GMT -5
Got plenty of other apples already producing so i'm not really worried,but grafting,worth a try,i found a really nice sweet roadside apple the other day and it was a good size too,should give it a go,got a mate who's really good at grafting,i'll ask him to show me how its done,either that or i'll just dig up a sucker from that tree.
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Post by MikeH on Feb 25, 2014 5:57:18 GMT -5
Chlorosis? I wonder if the roots are waterlogged?
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Post by richardw on Feb 25, 2014 13:01:12 GMT -5
The water table peaked at 1m below the surface last winter,at the moment its slowly dropping and is at 2.5m,at its lowest in some autumns it can get to a bit over 5m,once the autumn rains arrive and the nearby river(1km away)starts to flow again it takes 12-14 days to seep through the shingle under our property,so no its not waterlogged,i wonder if there's a connection between not setting any fruit in spring and what its doing now,and thinking it more, given its not in great health it wouldn't be a tree you would want to graft onto,
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Post by steev on Mar 8, 2014 1:25:12 GMT -5
Maybe not permanently, but perhaps to "park" something awhile?
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Post by richardw on Mar 8, 2014 4:04:40 GMT -5
Too late now,the tree has been cut down
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