First Leaves of Spring: Apple Tree [Gardening]
Check the first leaves appearing on my apple tree this year.
This is the second year since I planted the bare rootstock. I am growing this tree in a container to keep it small, and also training it to bear fruit eventually.
The two top branches are growing from last year's graft, which will bear Sweet 16 apples one day.
The lower branch I grafted myself last month. The buds there look like they are swelling, so that is very good sign! It will develop into Northern Spy (a parent of Sweet 16) apples on that branch.
The rootstock is also growing leaves on a small branch even lower than my new graft. I can't decide if that branch is too small and low or not, but I do like the direction it is heading. Sometimes low branches on a tree, when they are small, they never develop very strong. Since it is small, it can easily be grafted onto next year. Right now it is serving two purposes: thicken the trunk and provide leaf area for photosynthesis to energize the tree. For that reason I will leave it alone. It might become a sacrificial limb in the future.
No signs of bark damage, disease, or pest problems. All good signs for a promising future!
This tree and I are a good team together.
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I so wish I could grow apple trees but the darn monkeys simply raid them and leave nothing behind. Maybe in the coming months once the outbuilding has been sorted. Great post.
amazing, the miracle of nature combined with your good will to bring apples into this world is really magic! <3 congrats and thanks for taking care of mother earth
Thank you @shellylopez. Your kindness is genuinely appreciated.
This looks very promising!! I'm watching very shiny branches lol. Hope that you see that much of a growth even doubled up! Your efforts must pay off and this is the best proof to it. Have a great week and hopefully that apple tree will continue smiling and shining!
Btw what are those flowers name? The center of each flower looks amazingly geometric with those shapes!
Tulips. They come up every spring around our yard from bulbs.
Thanks again for letting me know about petroleum jelly. I think it really benefits the growing stems in many ways.
Wooo you are so caring about yor plants and garden and you look them reguraly keep it up
Always nice to read your post and learn from your post hope you have good days
I’d never have the patients for something like this. How many years do you expect before it’s able to produce?
I’ve been tempted a couple of times to get an orange tree. Disease can be a bit of an issue down here and the large farmers get easily spooked causing government overreach.
Good question. I am not sure when they will produce. My grapevine is going on its third growing season and I have never seen fruit on it either. Hopefully I'll start seeing flowers and fruits on my fruit trees before my hair turns grey and falls out.
I don't know much about orange tree farms. I think I recall there being a disease that swept through over ten years ago, scaring most producers that they would lose all the best varieties. To put all the blame on backyard growers for spreading the disease seems unfair to me. Most backyard growers are not packing in hundreds and hundreds of trees of the same species, which isn't a very natural way to grow any tree. That is disaster waiting to happen.
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apple tree is very worth for us keep my friend. and and can you help me once my friend @creativetruth
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wish you good luck... 😊 @peekbit I'll follow the growing...