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Old 08-03-2016, 12:08 PM
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Default Apple trees...

Looking like a bumper crop this year!

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Old 08-03-2016, 12:21 PM
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How do you get them to grow upside down like that?

Are they good eaters? The tree in my yard produces compost I have tried cider, wine, pies, apple sauce... all of it horrible. Yet the tree that hangs over our fence from the neighour's yard has very good eating apples.

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Old 08-03-2016, 12:33 PM
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How do you get them to grow upside down like that?

Are they good eaters? The tree in my yard produces compost I have tried cider, wine, pies, apple sauce... all of it horrible. Yet the tree that hangs over our fence from the neighour's yard has very good eating apples.

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Graft a branch from you neighbers tree onto your tree. You could even let him know you're doing it.
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Old 08-03-2016, 12:46 PM
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Graft a branch from you neighbers tree onto your tree. You could even let him know you're doing it.
I was considering taking a cutting and trying to root it, never considered grafting

Time for some research... thanks.

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Old 08-03-2016, 01:14 PM
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Branches on my trees are just about touching the ground. 2 years ago was about the same. Going to have lots of apple sauce, cider, etc.
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Old 08-03-2016, 01:18 PM
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How do you get them to grow upside down like that?

Are they good eaters? The tree in my yard produces compost I have tried cider, wine, pies, apple sauce... all of it horrible. Yet the tree that hangs over our fence from the neighour's yard has very good eating apples.

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Fantastic eaters. Ones like a Mac and the other a Red delicious. On a good year, we get several 40lb boxes. Apple pie and Apple crumble all year!

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I was considering taking a cutting and trying to root it, never considered grafting

Time for some research... thanks.

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how do you get a cutting to root? i want to try with my apple a cherry trees.
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Old 08-03-2016, 09:27 PM
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how do you get a cutting to root? i want to try with my apple a cherry trees.
Short version, you wait until spring when things are budding (while after budding... you want the new growth to have some leaves). You take a cutting of the new green growth at the 'bud' (the juncture between the new and old growth). You put the cutting in water, give it lots of light and wait for roots to appear.

Slightly longer version, there are all sorts of things you can do to encourage rooting after you have taken a cutting... I have know comment on any of them as I have no practical experience with them. I take cuttings, stick them in water... if they root, I plant them; if they don't, I toss them.

In case anyone is wondering why you would take cuttings to root (or graft) instead of planting from the seeds of the plant in question, it is a question of genetics... the cutting will be a 'clone' of the parent plant an will generate the same fruit; plants from the seeds of that parent plant may or may not give the same fruit.

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Old 08-03-2016, 09:45 PM
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Not sure cuttings are going to work in alberta unless it is a straight crab apple you are dealing with.

Eating apples are less hardy and are grafted on to crab (hardy) rootstock. Grafting is the easy way to go if you already have an apple tree.
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Old 08-03-2016, 09:50 PM
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Default Grafting apples

If you have an apple or crab apple tree you can graft desirable apples on it and have it produce several varieties. Lots of info on grafting on the Internet and Utube. I have a crabapple with 4 varieties of apples on it.
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How do you get them to grow upside down like that?

Are they good eaters? The tree in my yard produces compost I have tried cider, wine, pies, apple sauce... all of it horrible. Yet the tree that hangs over our fence from the neighour's yard has very good eating apples.

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how do you get a cutting to root? i want to try with my apple a cherry trees.







I've used this on Crab-apples and it worked well for me.
All the best Apples come from grafted wood.
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so , i could take a cutting from my cherry tree and graft it on to a chokecherry tree and it will produce both? that will be pretty cool because i must have a 100 choke cherry trees growing here .
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Old 08-04-2016, 07:34 AM
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so , i could take a cutting from my cherry tree and graft it on to a chokecherry tree and it will produce both? that will be pretty cool because i must have a 100 choke cherry trees growing here .
Should be able to, would be nice to toss a nan king into the mixs
For those interested Olds College used to have some real good books on plant propagation. Several chapters on cuttings, graftings ect fit right into this conversation
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Is there any way to make apple trees to not produce apples?
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Old 08-04-2016, 07:57 AM
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Is there any way to make apple trees to not produce apples?
When it blossoms in the spring , getting rid of all blossoms before they are pollinated might work.
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Old 08-04-2016, 08:33 AM
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My mother-in-law's tree produces well year after year, but this year, although the crop is good, the apples themselves are all wormy. :'(
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Old 08-04-2016, 08:58 AM
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I've used this on Crab-apples and it worked well for me.
All the best Apples come from grafted wood.
Homemade Willow water works as well.

http://preparednessmama.com/willow-rooting-hormone/
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Old 08-04-2016, 11:52 AM
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Have a huge crop this year, but almost all of them are only good on one side. The hail did a nasty number on any exposed fruit. So, I'll be cutting the damaged sides off and making a lot of pie filling and sauce I guess.
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Old 08-04-2016, 11:57 AM
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Grafting way to go.. Knew a old guy musta had 10 varitities on one tree.. Get branches from nieghbors and freinds... Stalk the hood make notes have samples
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