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From: Harold Schooley schoo...@kwic.com
To: Apple-crop apple-crop@virtualorchard.net
Sent: Tuesday, March 10, 2009 2:32 PM
Subject: Apple-Crop: Early bearing
Would someone care to divulge
M9 or M26
Harold
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From: apple-crop@virtualorchard.net [mailto:apple-c...@virtualorchard.net]
On Behalf Of Patrick Curran
Sent: Tuesday, March 10, 2009 4:14 PM
To: Apple-Crop
Subject: Re: Apple-Crop: Early bearing
What rootstock do you have them on?
On Mar 10, 2009, at
My experience is that in Virginia Spys are late producers. Scoring really
works. There are more and less severe scoring, you might want to try several
types on some limbs. The least severe is one cut around the trunk under the
scaffold limps. The most severe would be to remove about 1/8
I've found all the techniques mentioned work to some degree. I
suspect that the more of them employed, the more likely you will
succeed. One mentioned only briefly was the bending of branches below
horizontal. It can be is very time consuming, and very
effective. People of course have
Virgina Spys? That is a new one on me. Northern Spy? Good luck,
notoriously late bearing as you may already know. I don't think having
them on M.9 even helps. (Although it can't hurt!)
FYI, you can see the wire limb benders in action that Mo Tougas speaks
of here:
Bending limbs, scoring, summer NAA, and minimal pruning all work. Years ago we
used 2 pints of Ethrel with 1 pound of Alar 2 weeks after full bloom...quite
effective.
Mark Evans
Frankfort, Michigan
- Original Message -
From: Harold Snschooley
To: Apple-crop
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