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I am lucky to have two apple trees in my garden, however one (a bramley) was completely covered with a hugh dense clematis. a couple of brave long branches had grown out of the mass and still managed to fruit, but most of the tree was smothered. Now favouring the edible over the purely decorative I have cut down the clematis and uncovered the tree (i imagine for the first time in many many years) but not pruned at all. My question is this, I can see signs of life on the outer edges of the long branches but nothing at all further in (about 80% of the tree seems lifeless) is this season enough to know if the centre of the tree will recover or can i expect more to recover and fruit with successive years?
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Without seeing the tree, it is hard to know just how "lifeless" the tree happens to be.
It is normal for trees to only have leaves on the outermost couple of feet of branches. When the outer is in full leaf, the inner is so shady that there is no point in leaves growing there.
If there are areas inside the canopy with enough light penetration, new branches may grow there eventually.
A hard winter prune (too late now) would cause a large number of upright shoots to grow from the pruned areas. You could try doing that, to get the additional branches that you require.. -
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