Re: [nafex] nafex Digest, Vol 239, Issue 3

You have a runty cultivar growing on a runty rootstock, probably growing in runty soil. In other words ,your tree is runted out. Happens all the time out here in the harsh conditions of the West. Something is making your roots unhappy. Take care of your roots first. Top growth follows root growth. Get rid of all the weeds, put compost down. Take off any fruit. Keep it moist. Next winter cut it back and maybe it will have enough root to send up some top growth.
On Friday, June 5, 2020, 11:25:22 AM PDT, <nafex-request@lists.ibiblio.org> wrote:

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  1. Re:  no new growth on young apple? (Ginda Fisher)

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Date: Fri, 5 Jun 2020 14:23:35 -0400
From: Ginda Fisher <list@ginda.us>
To: NAFEX Fruit Explorers <nafex@lists.ibiblio.org>
Subject: Re: [nafex] no new growth on young apple?
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Well,

There was no clear apex, but one spur is a little higher than the others, and it had three leaf clusters emerging from it, and one of those had grown about half an inch. So I plucked off the other two clusters, in the hopes that one decides its the apex and grows a bit more.

I also trimmed off the top of one twig, just above a bud. Maybe it will sprout?

I left the rest of the tree alone. I?ll give it a bit more fertilizer and remove some of the weeds at it?s base, as well.

Ginda

> On Jun 5, 2020, at 11:01 AM, Ginda Fisher <list@ginda.us> wrote:
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> Maybe this link will work?
> https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/19tocz71O8zdvoXngf1qYQwvWo10BcEeq?usp=sharing
>
> Yes, normal growth. At least, normal leaves, like at the end of a spur. It?s just that EVERY twig ends like that.
>
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>> On Jun 5, 2020, at 10:49 AM, Elizabeth Hilborn <ehilborn@mebtel.net> wrote:
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>> Hi Ginda,
>>
>> The picture did not come through.
>>
>> When you say 'rosette' is it normal growth?
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>> On 6/5/2020 8:26 AM, Ginda Fisher wrote:
>>> I was hoping to get some new growth on this apple tree this spring, so I could use it as grafting stock. But every twig ends in a rosette, like the ones shown below, with nothing sprouting. Is there anything I can do? Would it help to cut the rosette off? Would it have helped if I did it earlier in the season? Anything else I could do to promote new growth?
>>>
>>> It?s an Ashmeads Kernel on G205, I think. It?s in a lousy spot, and won?t ever get enough sun. (Thus my interest in grafting it to something else, somewhere else.)
>>>
>>> Thanks for any advice,
>>> Ginda Fisher
>>> Eastern MA, zone 6
>>>
>>>
>>>
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