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What are the chances to get an edible apple from a tree grown from seed?
My experience is different. It is very easy to have a apple tree from seed.
But apple trees are not auto-fertile. This mean that to have apple on a tree, you need pollen from an other trees (and ...
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What does S1S4 (or similar) mean in the context of cherries?
S1S4, S3S6 and others are Pollen Groups for Cherries. Only some species of Cherry tree are capable of pollinating themselves (such trees are referred to as self-fruiting, or self-pollinating). However ...
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How do I recognize a hermaphrodite papaya tree?
The hermaphrodite papaya is recognized by its flowers. They have both male and female characteristics, which is why they're able to self-pollinate. Unfortunately, that means you really can't tell the ...
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How do I stop woodpeckers from killing my beloved apple tree?
Since woodpeckers don't eat wood, concentrate on killing the insects that the woodpeckers are actually eating (rather than "keeping the woodpeckers away" by some means other than removing their food ...
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Should I leave fallen apples (windfall) to rot under the tree?
According to this publication from the University of Wisconsin Extension, the larvae of several destructive insects can grow to maturity in windfallen apples:
Apple Maggot Flies (pp. 12, 14)
Codling ...
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What are these red/orange spots with protruding "spikes" on my pear tree?
I'm afraid its Pear Rust, sometimes called European Pear Rust - its one of the gymnangosporangium rusts, and as such, needs two different plant species to complete its life cycle, in this case, Pear ...
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Could a wasp be hurting my apple tree?
Disclaimer: we haven't identified the wasps in question
Wasps are insectivores. If they are flyng back and forth between or around plants, they are on the hunt or scouting for food.
The wasps' ...
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If one cuts the flower off a fruit tree, will a new flower/fruit grow in its place?
I agree with stormy, but I add some information.
The buds are already differentiated on spring, and there will be no additional flowering buds (really, the plant could produce new buds, that will ...
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How much space is needed between fruit tree canopies?
The distance depends on varieties, environment, and mechanization.
Usually we need enough space for canopy and root, but for some species/uses (nature has always exceptions), where one look for depth ...
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Will my Mango seedling survive after being attacked by my cat?
I can't promise it will live, but I've seem mango seedlings survive some pretty rough treatment.
The main thing is to keep your cat or anything else from inflicting more damage. I think it has a ...
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Why does the lime half of a grafted tree suffer, while the lemon half thrives?
I'm sorry to say there's probably nothing you can do to change the situation. It sounds as if the lime part of the grafted tree is failing because it doesn't have enough vascular tissue to conduct ...
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Does compost replace fertilizer?
No, you can not replace 'fertilizer' with compost. You do have to consider the amount of necessary chemicals available and what chemicals your particular compost adds. Fertilizing includes not only ...
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Does compost replace fertilizer?
No, but it could sensibly reduce or remove needs of fertilizers.
It is not very probable that the compost has the required exact proportion of fertilizer. It is also not so probable that one single ...
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Does compost replace fertilizer?
I have never fertilised any of my vegetables or fruit trees apart from using compost and compost tea. I would challenge that you need to add fertiliser to your vegetable garden especially if you use ...
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What happens when a scion from an older tree is grafted to a younger rootstock?
Almost all scions are from older trees than the rootstock, except when topworking an old tree to change variety.
Then again, scions are generally the "less than 1 year old" wood from the older tree, ...
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Should I cut off some banana leaves before flowering?
I'm not sure if what you've been told is entirely true - what is true is that the new leaves and fruiting stems emerge from the centre of the plant, pushing their way up through existing leaves, so ...
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Red streaks in Louisiana sweet oranges
This has nothing to do with what pollinated your trees this year.
But apparently some of your trees have a trace of blood oranges in their ancestral line. Oranges (Citrus x sinensis) are a hybrid ...
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When should I plant an apple tree in the UK?
Doesn't matter whether you're fan training, espalier or cordon growing, the best time for planting trees in the UK is September or October. If they're container grown plants, you can plant at other ...
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How to encourage new branch growth in a peach tree?
This is the main problem of peaches, they will not create new twigs, so you should really prune heavily the tree, so that the bottom twigs are always healthy (and not overpowered by higher branches).
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Will this spikey pear tree ever grow fruit?
If you're sure it was a pear originally, one of two possibilities - it was a cultivar that was grafted, the grafted cultivar has died and you're left with growth off the rootstock, which has now ...
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Are my cherries edible?
Fruits with pulp are made to be eaten: it is the purpose of such fruits: they help the plants to propagate. Cherries are made to be eaten by birds.
So I think birds find a lot more cherries and ...
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What are these red translucent fruit?
I'm pretty sure that's Autumn Olive (Elaeagnus umbellata)
The bark, leaves, and the coloration and surface texture all line up with what I would ID as an Autumn Olive - not to be confused with ...
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How does the T budding grafting method provide contact between the cambium layers?
There is direct contact between the two cambium layers - the removed bud has cambium (meristematic tissue) exposed on the cut side, and the T cut made in the stem it's to be grafted to has the bark or ...
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Best remedy for rot in plum tree
Your tree is a very, very old lady - average productive life span for a plum tree is around 10-20 years, though it obviously varies between individuals and many go on for longer, getting more gnarly ...
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Repairing bushes and small trees?
Don't overthink this. In the wild, small trees and shrubs get trodden on and/or eaten by animals all the time, and they don't go extinct because of it. They might not look "perfect" after ...
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Mulberry bleeding for a month
This is going to be hard: the best thing to do for pruning is: nothing.
There is enough of a collar around the cut that, with time, the tissue around the perimeter of the cut will heal over and close ...
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Think this rooted?
Looks like your plant has gone through a rough path. It has not one but multiple issues.
It is definitely under stress.
The leaves are dried and curling which shows that lack of humidity. If there ...
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Can you espalier peach, plum and cherry trees?
Yes, you can espalier stone fruit trees, although apparently the process is a little different to apples and pears because stone fruit don't produce fruit on spurs. (IE stone fruit need to be ...
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Managing weeds around fruit trees
Cardboard is my weed barrier of choice. I've been putting a little fresh compost just under the cardboard but only about an inch thick. Once the cardboard is in place then I'm covering it with wood ...
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Can I get rid of sap stains on my mulberry tree?
That leaking sap & stained bark appears to be caused by bacterial wetwood, also known as slime flux. This is a common bacterial infection that creates slightly caustic sap & raises pressure ...
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