Terence Robinson, 1-15-09, pruning tall spindle apple part 1

Dr. Terence Robinson, Cornell University, at the UMass Orchard, Mass. Fruit Growers' Assoc. meeting, 15-January 2009, pruning tall-spindle apples, part 1. ©2019 Jon Clements and the UMass Fruit Advisor, umassfruit.com AND unknown videographer...

[@cristianresch9204]

Dear Mr. Jon, I would like to know how many apples shall I leave on a 1 year old apple tree on M9 rootstock. Does it depend on the type of the apple tree, on the strenth/power of the tree. Thanks in advance for your replay - Cristian from Romania!

[@jmcext]

If the tree has grown well and filled it's space you could leave 5-10 apples. But if it needs to grow another year you should take all the apples off!

[@PANTTERA1959]

Always informative. What did the Hudson crash have to do with this?

[@jmcext]

Nothing other than the fact while we were doing this people were standing on the wing of a jet aircraft in the Hudson River wondering (probably) what's next?

[@jmcext]

Other than the fact a passenger jet crash-landed in the Hudson River in the middle of January and everyone survived? Nothing...

[@sikanderpanezai19]

Can we plant seedlings for high density orchards and train them as tall spindle trees or is it necessary to plant dwarfing rootstocks (M.9,MM.106,M.7 etc)? Thankyou

[@gabeolson-jensen8676]

If you plant seedlings they will get to big. Also root quality will probably vary because apples are heterogeneous(every seedling will be different)

[@JM-ld1tl]

Hello what is the tree and row space

[@Friday315]

Does we need any tipping in short laterals

[@binboga]

Cameraman, why did you keep standing behind him showing his back?