Apple Tree Storm Casualty

[Commando]

We lost this tree to Storm Eunice, was gonna remove but it’s now covered in blossom.

Just wondering if it can survive like this or it’s gonna eventually die.

It’s a lovely tree that fruits well.

Any advice appreciated…

[maybelateron]

My sister has two apple trees that were windblown like this, many years ago, and both survived. You could leave it and see how it fares.

[Dan Maynard]

I cut one up like that for a customer which had been covered in fruit, I was all for leaving it but looked too untidy for her. I think it'll carry on more or less indefinitely like that, just keep it propped and fill in the hole round the roots if you can.

[Commando]

6 hours ago, Dan Maynard said:

I cut one up like that for a customer which had been covered in fruit, I was all for leaving it but looked too untidy for her. I think it'll carry on more or less indefinitely like that, just keep it propped and fill in the hole round the roots if you can.

Thx Dan, would you cut back the roots that are now above ground? 

[Peasgood]

I would pull it back upright but you can't do it until the ground is soaked, in winter provided we get enough rain.

Yes it will survive, even if you don't pull it upright.

[Mesterh]

I have seen I few cherry trees like that but they were still surviving quite well the last time I saw them. 

 

[Dan Maynard]

50 minutes ago, Commando said:

Thx Dan, would you cut back the roots that are now above ground? 

I guess if you're going to try to pull it back upright then they might have some use, but I doubt they will survive the summer sticking up in the air with sun on them. Maybe the ideal is to push them down and bury them, I think it won't matter too much if you trim the longer ones back though as the roots on the underside will be the ones keeping it alive.