AT A GLANCE
How is the apple tree pruned in the pot?
In principle, apple trees cultivated in a planter cut just like those in the garden. However, this happens already in spring or after harvest. Since the trees grafted on a weak rootstock only grow very slowly, less is cut off.
Shall the little apple be a beautiful form crown, you have to pass the wood through her pruning in the formation of the same support:
These apple trees are the Cutting measures quite uncomplicated. It is important that even with the aging Apple tree in a pot only short side branches grow from a steeply rising central shoot, on which the fruits form.
Tip
Several varieties on one apple tree
Sometimes the apple tree in a pot does not bear fruit because there is no suitable pollinator in the vicinity. An ideal solution in this case are slow-growing apple trees, where more than one apple variety has been grafted on one rootstock. The two variants that flower at the same time serve as pollen donors for each other.