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How old pillared fruit becomes depends on care
The lifespan of column fruit
With many types of fruit, it is basically the case, for example, that cherry trees or apple trees do not get as old as some other trees in the forest. However, there is no reason, from a purely genetic point of view, why column fruit should have a shorter lifespan than fruit trees with a spreading treetop.
Tips for a long life of column fruit
Pale fruit is often purchased as a "stopgap" for growing fruit on a balcony. However, care should be taken to ensure that these plants, despite their slender habit, have approximately the same needs as their more vigorous relatives. So that the service life does not shorten unnecessarily, the following advice should be heeded during the care:
Special case Column Raspberry
Colorfined fruit is a special case in the so-called pillar raspberry. This is often sold in a decorative manner on a trellis mounted in a pot, but due to its natural predisposition does not automatically maintain this pillar shape over its entire service life. Like other raspberries, a columnar raspberry from the root area forms new rods and dead plant parts must be removed regularly. Therefore, a columnar raspberry remains only visually perceived as a columnar raspberry, if it is redirected with a little effort annually in the appropriate direction of growth and fixed to a trellis.
Tips
While old fruit varieties with large treetops can often grow in their yield over their entire lifetime, a certain maximum is reached after a few years with orange fruit. However, the plants usually provide a very high yield in relation to the plant mass due to targeted selection in breeding.