small apple tree

[alanp1]

Hi all
New to gardening last year so learning,i have a miniture apple tree on my patio, no fruit this year just grown taller how do i go about pruning it
many thanks
alan

[lainey lou]

Hi Alan,
Welcome to the vine.
Sorry can't advice on pruning, but i think you need to have 2 different varieties of apple for pollunation to occur? May be wrong but i'm sure some good advice is on it's way....

Lainey lou

[Snadger]

.............. i think you need to have 2 different varieties of apple for pollunation to occur? May be wrong but i'm sure some good advice is on it's way....

Lainey lou

Some apples are self fertile, some require a pollinator and some require two pollinators!

Have a look at my cyber show entry for my three 'Sunset' apples,(Cox derivative) a self pollinator which I rightly or wrongly have allowed to fruit in it's first year, after planting a bare rooted plant into a pot last spring!

[bazzaboy]

hello Alan and welcome.... I'm no pruning expert (in fact on another thread you'll find me trying to locate an evening course in it!) but a few pointers. Firstly it gets quite complicated and guessing doesn't necessarily yield good results.... Secondly a young apple tree shouldn't need pruning, particularly a miniature which has been grafted onto a particular mini root. The graft should be very visible as a kink in the main stem just a few inches above the soil - don't let it get beneath the soil or it will re-root and bypass the graft. It would be helpful if you know or can find out the particular variety as basically there are two types of apple tree and the pruning for each type is different! Disappointing not to get any apples - no blossom either? - but some apple trees do seem to go in cycles and either have a lot or none so there's always next year to look forward to.

bb

[alanp1]

Hi all
Many thanks for the kind welcome
answering bazzaboy`s reply,my apple tree is a breburn minature apple tree,i have seen other apple trees around my area so i might be ok
best wishes
alan

[smallblueplanet]

Some apples are self fertile, some require a pollinator and some require two pollinators!

Have a look at my cyber show entry for my three 'Sunset' apples,(Cox derivative) a self pollinator which I rightly or wrongly have allowed to fruit in it's first year, after planting a bare rooted plant into a pot last spring!

Hey Snadger where'd ya get your sunset? (No smartarse replies! )

We've just been on a trip to Wales and saw one growing in a NT house garden - scrumped one, good taste!

[Snadger]

Hey Snadger where'd ya get your sunset? (No smartarse replies! )

We've just been on a trip to Wales and saw one growing in a NT house garden - scrumped one, good taste!

Well now.......think....think....think??

It was one of the cheapie shops, I think it was Aldi but it could have been Netto or Lidl????

No, it was deffo Aldi, about 3 squid if I remember rightly but all the cheapie shops will be getting them in soon!

[smallblueplanet]

Was yours always a little one Snadger or is it just that you've planted it in a pot? Oh and how big a pot and how big will it grow?

[SueA]

Hi all
Many thanks for the kind welcome
answering bazzaboy`s reply,my apple tree is a breburn minature apple tree,i have seen other apple trees around my area so i might be ok
best wishes
alan

Think you should be all right Alan as Braeburn is self-fertile. I wouldn't bother with pruning, at least not while it's still young as it's a miniature tree. I've got a 'Red Spur' & 'Red Devil' trees in pots & haven't pruned them & they fruit O.K.

[Snadger]

Was yours always a little one Snadger or is it just that you've planted it in a pot? Oh and how big a pot and how big will it grow?

Hey tiger!!!

No idea...no idea.....no idea...and just for good measure.....no idea!

Its on a dwarfing rootstock and was a bare rooted whip! Its confinement in a largish pot may keep it dwarfed but I suppose with proper pruning it could be kept to any size I desire! To flower and set fruit at less than 5 foot high is ideal for me as I don't want any fruit I can't reach!

How big was the tree you have seen in the national Trust property?

[smallblueplanet]

Ooops, OH has said it wasn't sunset, but suntan!

The trees were all about 8 foot high and had originally been espalliered (sp!).