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The specialty in the cultivation of fruit trees

Many shrubs and flowering plants can be propagated using cuttings and root cuttings. Techniques such as mossing are also being used in more and more private gardens to multiply plants. For the Multiplication However, these techniques cannot really be used successfully for apple trees and other fruit trees. Rather, in the apple tree, a core becomes one Sapling grown, which is then, if necessary and as usual in commercial cultivation, with a branch at a certain stem height refined will.

Reasons for grafting the apple tree

In the pollination one Apple blossom the genetic information from the pollen is combined with the genetic components of the blossoming apple tree. In the wild, the origin of the pollen is largely uncontrollable, so that when you pull an apple tree out of a core there may well be surprises. On the other hand, when refining, a noble spider becomes the desired one

Apple variety on a suitable documentgrafted on, the growth of twigs, leaves and fruits corresponds to the gene pool of the noble rice variety. In commercial horticulture, therefore, mostly only grafted trees are used under professional guidance in order to obtain trees of the same variety and similar growth.

Bringing a self-grown apple tree into shape

If you are the home grown Sapling just let it grow, this is usually a rather impractical one height and achieve growth habit. Better prospects for Yield if you have the tree with a scion and targeted pruning to one of the following Tree shapes refine:

• Espalier tree
• Columnar apple
• bush
• Half-stem
• High trunk

Tips & Tricks

In general, you don't need detailed instructions to pull an apple tree out of a core. Please note, however, that you have to stratify the kernels in the refrigerator for about two weeks before germination in the harvest year.