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Bramley cordon dwarf thoughts and advice... please
brian stoat
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in Fruit & veg
We'd really like to grow a Bramley apple, but the specific position we want to put it, dictates that it needs to be grown as a cordon (we'd thought of a columnar cherry, but prefer the apple) and really quite small.
Has anybody had any experience with growing a Bramley like this? Of course, you'd normally expect them to be more sizeable trees; but needs must on this occasion. Can they be restrained in this fashion? Does fruiting suffer if we're spur-pruning? Are we trying to do something that's impossible?
Any advice would be much appreciated.
Cheers
Has anybody had any experience with growing a Bramley like this? Of course, you'd normally expect them to be more sizeable trees; but needs must on this occasion. Can they be restrained in this fashion? Does fruiting suffer if we're spur-pruning? Are we trying to do something that's impossible?
Any advice would be much appreciated.
Cheers
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Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
“How can I train a partial tip-bearer as an espalier?
Although it’s best to use spur-bearing cultivars, it is also possible to train partial tip-bearers as espaliers. Some, such as ‘Discovery’ and ‘Charles Ross’, are easily maintained, but others, such as ‘Worcester Pearmain’ and 'Bramley’s Seedling’, can potentially be difficult to manage …” https://www.rhs.org.uk/fruit/apples/starting-an-espalier
As Im sure you know the pruning for cordons and espaliers is to all intents and purposes the same.
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.