Colon-shaped apple trees: reviews about cultivation practices in our country

Apple tree is the most popular garden culture not only in our country, but also in the vastness of the entire former USSR. This is explained not only by the high taste and nutritional qualities of the fruit, but also by the unpretentiousness of the tree, which makes it possible to grow it in a variety of climatic zones.

Strangely enough, but our gardeners are rare conservative, badly getting used to new varieties and varieties. Thus, the column-shaped apple trees, the reviews we will consider today, belong precisely to such "losers". What is the reason for this?

What it is?

We think it will be superfluous to recall that apple-trees are called columnar-shaped, in which fruiting occurs almost closely to the trunk, and no large branches leave it. In general, such a tree from a distance resembles a pole, stuck with apples.

Advantages are obvious: the highest compactness and good productivity literally on the "patch" of the area.

What are the problems associated with?

It would seem that everyone should be happy, but the column-shaped apple trees, the reviews of which turned out to be imperfect, still have their shortcomings.

So, domestic gardeners have found out that the first couple of years the character of growth of the main trunk is very long, and therefore the tree is often damaged by frost. As a result, the vertex suffers, which leads to splitting of the trunk.

Instead of the promised single, two or three main branches appear. But negative feedbacks in this case are connected with ignorance of agricultural technology: after the onset of warm weather, it is necessary to visually determine which of the stems is the most powerful, and the rest to be removed with the help of an acute garden pruner.

In this case, the column-shaped apple trees, the reviews of which are not always positive, can still yield excellent harvests.

Another feature of these species of garden trees is that among them there are both dwarf and tall varieties. We think, it is not worth while to say that it is not necessary to buy tall specimens in the conditions of our middle zone. In this case, the frosting of the tip and all the above problems are guaranteed to you.

And further. Many choose the cultivation of column-shaped apple trees because of the so-called sporovosti. This outlandish word refers to a phenomenon where flowering buds form along the entire length of the trunk.

And many gardeners feel cheated, in the reviews claiming that nothing like this is not observed. Again, its ignorance in this matter is played by ignorance about the basic principles of agricultural technology and craftiness on the part of sellers.

About everything in order. Firstly, only a few column-shaped apple trees, whose reviews are so contradictory, really possess this feature. For its final manifestation, more than one year of breeding will be required.

Secondly, spravorost is quite often revealed when cultural dwarf varieties of columnar apple trees are planted on ordinary wild animals. But! Even in this case, the lively participation and interest of the gardeners themselves is required, which could select information on the frequency of manifestation of this feature, depending on the species of wildlife.

So, often in the responses there are advice from the Ural breeders, who found that the dwarf "colon" on the usual antonovka gives excellent results.

Thus, column-shaped apple trees, varieties (the photo is in the article) which are not yet properly acclimatized in our conditions, are in great need of "fine-tuning".