Re: [Apple-Crop] Prune dormat newly planted trees?

2017-04-05 Thread David Doud
Hello Doug - - I’m surprised no one has jumped into this yet - I'll take a swing at it, be assured others will hold different opinions - So - I think all would agree that different varieties have different growth habits and so respond in differing fashion to manipulation - so, ‘one size

[Apple-Crop] Prune dormat newly planted trees?

2017-04-04 Thread Doug Nelson
Good Morning, I am a new apple grower. I expanded my orchard from 500 trees to 5000 trees this spring. Most of the 4500 new trees I have just finished planting are still dormant. I am growing tall spindle on B9 and M9 root stocks on 5 wire trellis system. Many of the trees have feathers that