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Re: [nafex] columnar form
I would call that strong apical dominance, not necessarily columnar. An
adult columnar apple has a very upright growth habit, rather like a Lombardy
poplar, with few limbs and narrow crotch angles. The limbs themselves are
covered with spurs, top to bottom.
Jim Cummins - any comment?
-Lon Rombough
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>From: "del stubbs" <pinewoodel@hotmail.com>
>To: nafex@yahoogroups.com
>Subject: [nafex] columnar form
>Date: Mon, May 7, 2001, 10:48 AM
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>>From: "Lon J. Rombough" <lonrom@hevanet.com>
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>>On the quality of columnar apples. First, remember that the original
>>columnar type was a sport of McIntosh and all columnar types have been bred
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> On this subject, having just dug up from the nursery bed the last of the
>malus prunifolia that I had grafted one and 2 years ago...I knew that there
>were some that had failed grafts ( and so were seedlings) and a couple were
>unknown grafts (for lack of tags thaat had broken off). However, it was
>immediatly evident which were the prunifolia because of the spruce tree like
>form...a dead straight central with larger and larger little branches nearly
>to ground on 3' 'whips'. All the grafted varieties were proper whips...just
>a single leader, not straight, with only a couple odd spaced little limbs
>near the top.
> So, are prunifolia "columnar"?
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