How I summer prune my Espalier apple tree
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- Опубликовано: 24 авг 2024
- A closer look at summer pruning of my Espalier apple tree which is a 'restricted' form of fruit tree (an espalier in this case) the same principles apply to other restricted forms e.g. fan, oblique cordon, step-over trees etc. Summer prune to increase the yield of your espalier, cordon, step over tree.
these kind of trees make great use of spaces along walls/fences etc and can be very productive given the relatively small amount of space needed.
Brilliant video. Down to earth delivery & very useful info in a succinct piece. Some good info for my rhs level 2 revision 😊. Loved the comment “if I’d had time I’d have sprayed with foliage feed” 😂 time the downfall of all us devoted gardeners!
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Thanks so much for those wonderful comments and feedback, much appreciated 🙏❤️
This video filled me with confidence on how to summer prune my espalier apple tree. I liked the way he explained some of common diseases that affect the tree.
Thanks so much for your great feedback, most appreciated 🙏
Best wishes.
I’ve just taken on some neglected fruit trees and this is so informative I fully understand what I have to do. Thanks for taking the time to post it.
I'm really glad you found the video helpful, that's great feedback!
Good luck with your trees and thanks for watching 🙏
I just learned so much from the video. Thank you my friend. I have 3 small espalier in their first year. I'm by excited about them. But no one else here is! 😂 I need to learn as much as I can. I have branches growing outwards from the wall. My plan is to leave them until winter. They are just baby trees, so I don't want to annoy them too much this summer.
That's great to hear and I'm glad you found my video helpful ( check my other videos on grafting in the playlist)
Thanks for watching and good luck with your espaliers 👍👍👍
Excellent.Might be worth adding that disinfecting your secateurs in surgical spirit/Jeyes, or similar before you start on another tree , helps a bit with disease transmission.
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Yes that's something I normally do!
Thanks for watching 👍👍👍
This was so helpful thank you! I going to start twoheirlooms here this year and your video was the most helpful on continuing pruning and care! I hope mine last as long as yours
Nikki, that is great feedback!
thanks for watching and commenting.
Best wishes and good luck with your heirloom trees.
Bitter Pit is a new name and cause for me. I have seen this on some trees in dry years but thought it was insect damage. Good information. Thank you.
Cheers
Jane
Thanks for your kind comments Jane👍
Thanks Woody! Perfect timing as I'm just off to try and tame our espalier apples (and I had very little idea of what to do, until now!). Cheers! David
That's great!
Thanks for your kind comments 👍👍
Amazing information on the espalier apple tree, Woody!
It seems like those trees have been through a lot.
thank you guys; yes what started out as a potentially amazing year (for fruit) has now become a possible disaster - i'm glad I don't depend on it for a living!
This is a really informative video, Woody - thanks for posting it. I had just watched a summer pruning video where the guy left about 25cm on the water shoots, whereas pruning just up from the basal cluster was more in line with my understanding, so thanks for the confirmation. Hopefully neither of us will get like as many issues on our apples this year!
Thanks for your kind feedback Helen 😊.
I only leave a shoot longer if it's weak growth. Glad you found it fits with your thinking. Yes, let's hope we have a good year for fruit.
Best wishes
Woody 👍🤗❤️
Really well explained. Being a complete novice - thank you. Pruners out this afternoon
Thank you for such great feedback!
best wishes
Very informative thanks. I noticed when you mentioned the aphids that there was an ant crawling down the branch. They farm the aphids and protect them from predators. You can stop them with grease around the trunk that blocks their progress.
Thanks Chris- yes you are right about that - its chicken and egg - if I could stop the aphids at the top leaves of the branch then ants would not come up!
its been a particularly bad year for aphids this year,
thanks so much for stopping by ;-)
Such a beautiful espalier apple tree 🌴🍃🌱🌿☘🌲
Hey thanks so much!
Best wishes 👍👍👍
Yes, I just felt in love with espalier fruit tree, they just so beautiful just started apple and pear espalier trees journey. I will keep updating how they goes. I subbed your YT channel by the way, stay well, safe and be blessed 🌴🌱🍃🌿
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Great to hear that you're espaliered pear and apple. Thanks for your support friend 🙏🙏👍👍
Some really good information Woody and you make it so easy to understand.
♻️Happy Gardening........🥕Terry King 🌞
Thanks Terry, that's great feedback my friend 👍
Thank you for the video. It was very interesting. You have just reminded me that I have to do some summer pruning!
You're welcome!
It's something that can slip our minds if not careful!
Thanks for stopping by 👍
Thanks. Very useful video. I've just acquired an allotment with several espailer form trees so I'll be saving this for reference later in the year. Interesting the aphid damage. Maybe the gap is between the aphids and their predeators arriving. There will always have to be some length of time for the aphids to live unattacked.
Thank you for that great feedback ;-)
interesting thoughts about the aphids - thanks for watching.
best wishes
That disease with dots under the skin of the apple. I did not get the name..... "bitter pit" or something like that.
I've had that on my apples but didn't know it was calcium deficiency.
Thanks for the video and your immense knowledge, Woody.
Hi Benni, yes you're correct, it's 'bitter pit'
Not sure that I have immense knowledge LOL, but I'm happy to share what I've learned as others share their experiences too.
Thanks so much my friend 👍❤️
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Yes thanks your reply was helpful. Would like a video on what to do with a graft once it has taken. I suppose it depends on whether the intention is to espalier or not, then the pruning cuts would be in different positions according to the desired result? Subscribed.
Yes, that's correct. Pruning depends on what tree form you want eg. Espalier, oblique cordon, fan, open centre bush etc. If you check out my playlist there's quite a few grafting videos on there, a number from this year. Thank you for subscribing!
Best wishes
Can you do one on pruning plumbs for the fruit. My apple needs doing. Good info on the moths and bitter pit mate.
Cheers Dave
I'll try and sort something out mate👍
Hope you didn't lose too many apples to the canker. Another really useful video, thanks for sharing :-)
Thanks Julia, I'm losing fruit to all sorts of plague and pestilence at the moment 😒😕, nothing to be done about it though, it's one of those years.
@@cumbrianhomestead It really is, sigh.
Very Interesting Woody!
Cheers Tim!
Thanks mate, going to save this video on my playlist. Vinny
Cheers mate 👍
The presentation is very interesting! I do wonder if there is any harm in putting diseased or infected plant parts , or leaves with rust stains , on the compost heap. Greetings from Belgium
Thank you for your comments: Generally I dont compost things like cankerous wood, white rot in onions, club root in brassicas etc, but leaves with rust are fine.
Nice of you to take time to watch and comment - best wishes :-)
Excellent video great explanation thank you :)
Hey thanks so much for your great feedback!
ATB 👍👍
i am in central texas zone 8b. my apple trees keep dying from blight i think. black coloring along the wood that causes the tree to die. i had a pink lady and a gala, both died of it. i then planted a granny smith, dwarf anna, williams pride and liberty. i planted the liberty where the old pink lady was and pink lady is trying to grow up from the root, and now there are two trees in that hole. yikes. waiting for one to die to make my decision, lol.
So when you say 'blight' do you mean 'fireblight'?
It's best to replant in fresh ground if you have the space, or replace the soil in the planting hole if not. If the pink lady is growing again it might just be from the rootstock and not the variety.
Good luck anyway and thank you for stopping by 🙏👍
Thanks for the timely reminder, I had better get out and give my trees a haircut.
So how do you deal with woolly aphids and canker? one of my trees dates back to roughly 1960’s, is was an example of how not to look after Apple trees until we moved in. Now it produces a high volume of cooking apples that I don’t have to use a massive ladder to get at the fruit.
Hi Graham, sounds like you have a great tree there!
Woolly aphids: if you're not happy spraying with insecticide, then I've heard that soap sprays or similar can be effective, or if it's localised you could prune out the affected part. Canker is difficult to control, all I do is remove affected branches ASAP and burn them, clean up any affected leaves also.
I have been watching a series about using more natural methods of control. As Cumbrian Homestead suggests soap solution should do the trick . You can use between 2-4 tablespoons of soap in a gallon of water, Castile soap www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Castile-Liquid-Soap-Base-Organic-100ml-1-litre-Pure-SLS-SLES-Free-Castille/263647804567?ssPageName=STRK%3AMEBIDX%3AIT&var=562748459592&_trksid=p2057872.m2749.l2649 for aphids. The soap is better for the leaves rather than using washing up liquid. Neem Oil mixed with soap to disperse it through the water helps deal with soft body things. Regards Judith
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Thanks 🙏👍
The only second video illustrating very clearly the look Basal bud and where to cut above the Basal bud. The only other adquate demo. Is Mike Kinkade probagation channel . Many espalier video say is so easy. . No it's not . The right angle branch crotch you have on your cordon is very impressive particular since the opposing branchs are almost the same leve.l Could you say how you achieved such perfect crotch angles
Hello and thank you for your great feedback!
The key to achieving those angles is by gradually lowering the 'arms' (which are tied into canes) over a number of days at the end of the growing season, until they are at 180 degrees.
It likes like it was maked in 2009
I did make one around that time, but it got lost
Thanks for watching 👍
What is the basal cluster for exactly and why is it important to avoid cutting it off in espalier training?
Hi
Thanks for your questions; it's just the circle of leaves at the base of a current years growth. Cutting just above this cluster when summer pruning, will encourage the tree to form fruit buds instead of woody vegatative growth.
Hope that helps and thanks for watching 👍👍👍
Great video. I have a problem though.
I have 4 spur bearing apple trees, about 5 years old, and one pear tree, grown as vertical cordons ( there is also a quince tree which does not fruit at all well. I recently learned that they are more likely a tip bearer and not a good tree for cordons).
I have this year got into a muddle and have not summer pruned so last years autumn only prune growth has grown a bit wild.
I have harvested the small crop and now want to prune. Have I left it too late for the "summer" prune for fruit bud formation? I think so?
If I now give it a severe autumn /winter prune will I get any fruit buds forming next year? The trees are otherwise healthy and grow strongly.
Please advise if you can.
Hello and thank you for your question.
Unfortunately, It's too late to summer prune now. My thoughts are to leave them unpruned ( or just lightly tip back) and then go for major summer prune next year. Hope that helps and thanks for watching 👍👍
Your videos are very informative. How/when would you prune a Blenheim Orange graft that has grown 5 feet long on a multi graft tree that is not espaliered. Should I have pruned it shorter in the winter? Or prune now in Spring in Australia? Thanks, love your content.
Hello Ruth, difficult without seeing the tree and how many other grafted varieties on it and their vigour. If it's just breaking bud, then I'd think it's okay to prune back to a bud you want the branch to grow out to. You can also try nicking and notching lower down the stem if you need lower branching sub laterals. Does that help?
Very best wishes 👍
I do have a issue on my Apple Espalier. Wholly Aphid! About 10% of the Espalier. Mainly near the base. I did use the product Resolve last year that helped to contain the spread. Any thoughts about how to get rid of the pest?
BTW I pruned this afternoon with total confidence thanks to your video.
Did you mean woolly aphid?
They can be physically removed with a scrubbing brush and soapy water. Spray with insecticidal soap. Encourage the presence of earwigs, they devour woolly aphids. Glad to hear the pruning went well.
Regards 👍
Cumbrian Homestead I like the idea of encouraging earwigs. Any tips?
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they like places to hide, try placing some corrugated cardboard around the trunk of the tree. I find loads of them amongst my trees so rarely have problems with woolly aphids.
I'm living in MN ( zone 4 B ). I got some Asian pear trees. I watched a lot of clips about pruning .
I'm confusing about that.
What's different between summer pruning and winter pruning ? which one for more fruit and which one for shape
Hello friend, where is MN?
Summer pruning is to increase fruit production, winter pruning is to develop new wood and shape the tree. I hope that helps you friend 👍
@@cumbrianhomestead Shakopee-MN 55379
@@DucPham-ok5ko what does that mean friend 🤔