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- Support an apple tree with many fruits
- Support the apple branches gently
- Support as a system and growth form
- Support a crooked apple tree
- Tips & Tricks
Support an apple tree with many fruits
Normally, a regular pruning is enough to give an apple tree stability as well as vitality. In particularly good harvest years, however, it may be necessary to additionally support branches heavily occupied by fruits.
Support the apple branches gently
In order not to injure the branches or the fruits on the apple tree, props made of wood offer. You can do this yourself relatively easily using the following materials:
Form T-shaped supports from the construction strips and fix them with the nails. Then insert the posts under the richly supporting apple branches into the ground, so that the heavily-hung branch can rest on the column. Some bast or foam protects against scouring the delicate tree bark in windy conditions. In addition, you can fix the branch with Bindebast on the respective support.
Support as a system and growth form
In a trellis of apple trees, the growth of seedlings is deliberately directed so that the combination of cutting technique and tying a stable branch structure results. Although the branches are usually kept so short in a trellis tree that it can come to no breaking branches under the load of a rich harvest, however unfold the spreader and the tensioned cross wires their supporting effect.
Support a crooked apple tree
Sometimes wind damage or years of neglected winter and summer cuts can lead to skewed old apple trees. In such a case, you should try to rejuvenate the tree with a cut. If this is not possible for a variety of reasons, a T-post or a wooden stake can provide the tree with stability against further wind damage.
Tips & Tricks
A young apple tree should initially not need any supports with the appropriate shape cut. However, the seedling with Bindebast can be well attached to a sturdy wooden peg and thus protected from the effects of wind and weather during the growing phase after planting.