Content
- Cutting the column apple correctly - a guide
- Colza apple needs only a few cutting measures
- Shorten the side shoots and best time
- Shortening the center drive
- Thinning the fruits
- Tips
The column apple must be cut contrary to expectations only rarely
Cutting the column apple correctly - a guide
Pale fruit has been growing in popularity for several years now. Due to the low growth and the missing crown fits such a tree in every small garden. In addition, the narrow trees have another advantage: they have to be cut back much less and less frequently than their normally awake cousins.
Colza apple needs only a few cutting measures
A columnar tree typically has a strong center drive, from which short side shoots branch off. These can often bloom and fruit already in the second year - also in contrast to conventional apple trees, which usually take much longer to do so. The characteristic growth is narrow and columnar. If, nevertheless, a longer side shoot develops, you should remove it without stumps directly on the center drive. Remains a rest, drives the tree at this point new and often even stronger.
Shorten the side shoots and best time
As a rule, in the first six to eight years after planting, it is not necessary to shorten the middle drive. Only the side shoots, which cut you back to ten to fifteen centimeters, need to be shortened. Do this work best in the second half of June, as growth is easiest to curb at this time, and then more flower buds are created.
Shortening the center drive
After about eight to ten years, it can happen that the columnar apple gradually grows too high. Now you can derive its tip, d. H. Cut them back above a side branch. This measure should take place at the end of August at the earliest so that there will be no new sprouting this year. If possible, do not allow columnar apples to multiply, as this is often at the expense of fruit quantity and quality.
Thinning the fruits
All column apple varieties are highly prone to alternation, i. H. they do not produce fruits every year. If one year was particularly fruitful and you were able to harvest unusually many apples, there will probably be none in the following year. The reason lies in the limited power reserves of the tree justified: Tires too many fruits (about on several shoots) zoom, the column apple no longer has energy for the formation of the flowers for the coming year - these are namely already created at the time of fruit education. However, there is one way to prevent this phenomenon: By the beginning of June, thin out the excess fruits so that the remaining ones can mature better and the tree has sufficient reserves.
Tips
Colza apples cultivated in pots are transplanted into a larger vessel approximately every three to five years or, if they are mature, potted only in fresh substrate and immediately cut back.