Big collected apple
- Thread starter Tim.E
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Potawatomi13
Imperial Masterpiece
Good luck
. How you keep dirt in pot and mow lawn sideways like that
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. How you keep dirt in pot and mow lawn sideways like that?
sorce
Nonsense Rascal
Sucker sucker Mother ________.
I hope it sprouts up high for you.
Nice!
Sorce
I hope it sprouts up high for you.
Nice!
Sorce
Tim.E
Mame
Ask sorce, everything is sideways and upside down with himGood luck
Tim.E
Mame
Yeah when I dug it it had suckers coming up from everywhere. Hopefully the trunk buds for me :S
Zach Smith
Omono
Did you seal those chops? Also, it's generally best to make a straight chop at the apex rather than an angled chop.
Good luck with it. Nice material.
Zach
sorce
Nonsense Rascal
Ask sorce, everything is sideways and upside down with him
In the same manner that.....
Asking ALL the questions makes the answers reveal themselves.
Looking At the world upside down and backwards gives you a clear vision of what TRUELY is.
This practice makes "finding the tree" easy as Coloring in the Mona Lisa!
Sorce
Tim.E
Mame
Zach Smith
Omono
Makes sense.
aml1014
Masterpiece
Nice dig man! I hope it budds for you, I collected about a 50 year old apple this spring and am currently left with around 20 suckers. If the trunk never budds I'll just make a forest of the thing or try to graft the suckers back to the trunk.
Aaron
Aaron
Tim.E
Mame
That sucks that you aren't getting any buds on the trunk. Is it still viable or did it die backs to the sucker growth? I'm getting buds popping up high on the tree so here's hoping the tree pulls through for me. I'll try and get pics of the buds soon
aml1014
Masterpiece
Trunk is still nice and plump and the cambium is a nice lime green all the way up to the chop. I collected it in February and I'm still waiting on the trunk to bud lol at least it's still alive!
Aaron
Tim.E
Mame
LanceMac10
Imperial Masterpiece
Remove the suckers at the base of YOUR tree? I would think that they are sucking up energy best directed towards the shoots you want to use.
Tim.E
Mame
I've been heavily debating the same thing. There seems to be a lot of conflicting information regarding whether to leave sucker growth or to remove it. I was really aggressive with the roots during repotting so I was a little uneasy as to whether to take the sucker growth off.
Besides I'm tempted to use them to thread graft down the road depending on where I need branches but get no buds, because as you can see, the one back side of the trunk is getting no love at all.
Giga
Masterpiece
I would not remove the suckers. Suckers usually mean the tree is very stressed and putting out as much growth as it can to survive. Remove them next year, or use them to thread graft. You have buds at the top meaning the trunk is alive. Just let it grow unchecked for now, use some light organic fertilizer and let it do it's thing.
rockm
Spuds Moyogi
Normally, I'd agree, but apples tend to produce sucker growth even when they're healthy. That growth tends to starve off other growth near it. I'd meet the tree half way, remove half of the sucker growth -- the ones below where there are shoots higher up, if possible.
Giga
Masterpiece
If you must do somthing you could pinch off the tops of the suckers and that will help redirect the energy to the truck shoot. Do this only once though, I do this on newly collected material that is growing very strong despite being collected. Again do this with caution and judge the tree as I can only see the pictures.
Giga
Masterpiece
Tim.E
Mame
Sounds like a good plan to me. Any ideas or trying on how to convince the tree to pop buds on the middle section of trunk? Is there any ways to direct adventitious budding?
