Anyone else just fed up of customers at the moment

[Paddy1000111]

Here's what I would have sent back: I've drawn on a revised plan in green.

 

If you're going to cut to yellow you might as well plant a new tree

Edited March 5, 2021 by Paddy1000111

[Mick Dempsey]

Is it an apple?

[Clutchy]

2 minutes ago, Mick Dempsey said:

Is it an apple?

Yes

[Clutchy]

If you're about to tell me it will come back fine.... that's really not the point. 

[Mick Dempsey]

What is the point then?

[Paddy1000111]

Big difference between "coming back fine" and coming back in a massive attack of messy epicormic growth that looks like crap and leaves a tree that will only deteriorate and end up going to bi-annual fruiting 😉

[Mick Dempsey]

If you say so.

 

 

 

 

 

[Clutchy]

31 minutes ago, Mick Dempsey said:

If you say so.

If this was your tree in your garden, what would you do?

 

Its not interfering with any buildings but it will soon. It is probably at the max size suitable for the space.

 

Pollarded Apple trees look sh!t in my opinion. Loads of straight messy regrowth and it will develop problems down the line say 7-12 years later.

[Mick Dempsey]

I’d cut it a bit higher, but still pollard it, go for shape, forget growth points.

 

Lanky apples like that usually break under the weight of fruit anyway.

 

 

Not sure about your 7/12 year doomsday scenario, but even if it were true, so what? Plant another, it’s a fruit tree not some oak Robert the Bruce hid in.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[Khriss]

' shape'  no, load of good growth points there, plenty of scope for a good canopy  without hammering it, with easy picking fr fruit- probably got a bit cyclical on fruiting so a prune could buck it up a bit. Mulching definate and check soil. Possibly offer alternate planted tree to help pollination. K