Fonz
Chumono
I live in area where lots of apple and pear farmers have their growing fields. Once in a while a field gets cleaned out to make room for new trees. A little over a month ago I went to one of those fields where all the trees where being pulled out of the ground to get put through a shredder. One of my friends was the excecutioner on duty. He told me I could get as many trees as I wanted. I went with 1....
So long story short, I cut the top off a big trunk apple tree, dug out the rest of the trunk, took it home and planted it in a big masons tub filled with molar clay pebbles.
The plan is to let it recover for a year and then attempt an air-layer where the green line is on one of pictures below and cut of the big branches so I will end up with a 15-20" stump. That stump would be carved so the tree will get some kind of hollow trunk. New shoots (which are already forming on the trunk) will become the future branches.
My question to the experts is: How realistic is this? Will the air-layer work on such a big (old?) trunk?
And yes, I know it will take 200 years to get something decent
Picture 1: The apple tree field
Picture 2: The "Chosen One" already decapitated
Picture 3: The tree as it is today
Picture 4: New buds are sprouting
Picture 5: Red Lines: Branches will get cut here later
Green line: An air-layer attempt will be done next year or so.
So long story short, I cut the top off a big trunk apple tree, dug out the rest of the trunk, took it home and planted it in a big masons tub filled with molar clay pebbles.
The plan is to let it recover for a year and then attempt an air-layer where the green line is on one of pictures below and cut of the big branches so I will end up with a 15-20" stump. That stump would be carved so the tree will get some kind of hollow trunk. New shoots (which are already forming on the trunk) will become the future branches.
My question to the experts is: How realistic is this? Will the air-layer work on such a big (old?) trunk?
And yes, I know it will take 200 years to get something decent
Picture 1: The apple tree field
Picture 2: The "Chosen One" already decapitated
Picture 3: The tree as it is today
Picture 4: New buds are sprouting
Picture 5: Red Lines: Branches will get cut here later
Green line: An air-layer attempt will be done next year or so.