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  1. Nikolai Stepanovich Chepik, town of Nesvizh

    At me grow and fruit two apples on dwarfish stocks, to them already on 7 years. Harvest I receive in the end of July - the beginning of August. I want to plant on them apple trees of other varieties. Do you think the maturation period should be the same for the graft and the stock? And is it possible to take a graft from an ordinary high-apple tree or from an apple tree to a dwarfish rootstock?

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    • Summerman, gardener and gardener (anonymous)

      I'll start from the end: from where you take the cuttings to the inoculation - does not matter. As for the timing of maturation, it is advised in the literature to select varieties with one maturity period for inoculation. But I have experimented more than once and from my experience I can say that after the vaccination, say, of the "late" sort of apple on the "early"
      the tree feels well, develops, and fruiting on different branches comes into the nature laid down by the term. The only point: if you plant, say, a sweet apple on sour, "aliens" can slightly change the taste, but so insignificant that you can not even notice it.

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  2. Petr Kirillovich

    Until now, throughout Russia, gardeners grow fruit trees that reach 8 and more meters in height. Such giants occupy a large area, they can not be processed and it is extremely difficult to harvest, since it is "in the clouds".
    Giants have long been abandoned in Europe. All gardens - both amateur and industrial - are now grown on dwarf rootstocks and trellises. Such orchards are easy to process, and they give up to 10 tons of apples per hectare. Now we have in the Stavropol boom the creation of Italian gardens. But everything new is well forgotten old: the first garden on the trellises was created in 1966 on the collective farm to them. Lenin under the leadership of the Hero of Socialist Labor Alexander Chu-prin. The yield per 1 ha was 101 centners.
    The technology of the trellis garden is this. On the prepared site, concrete or metal poles are installed with a height of 2 m, row spacing is 3 m. In the row between the poles is 4,9 m. A wire with a diameter of 3 mm in four rows is stretched over the posts (after 50 cm). Trees are planted in a row under the wire every 1,8 m, the growing side branches are tied to the wire at an angle of 45-60 °. This leads to early bearing and forms a fan crown. Branches growing towards the aisle are shortened.
    I transferred my garden garden 10 years ago to trellises. I have fruit trees, grapes, cucumbers, tomatoes growing on them. I never dig passages, I keep clean from weeds. I am 77 years old, but I easily maintain my site. And in general, working in such a garden is a pleasure! I advise everyone to get rid of giant trees and switch to trellises. If you can’t afford to transfer the whole garden at once, build 2-3 trellises each year. I'm sure you will like it.

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