Veryfruity
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Destined for juice? Cox makes a lovely juice
Roughly 20m3 give or take.5 ton sounds like a lot. How much volume would that be
amateur, we have a few trees, we use for our own household.Professional or amateur?
Good pruning will help by reducing moisture and humidity in the crown. Scab likes wet, mildew humidity. Potassium Bicarbonate is good for mildew. On label is Karma, off label baking powder and soft water (apparently 10g/lt works….) but only if you think you can spray the whole tree, not worth bothering with if you can’t. You can’t do much about capsid, there might be a bit of Winter Moth in there too which can be controlled with grease bands - but they’re hassle and prone to bi catch of other beneficials. Encourage earwigs, they are voracious predators of aphids, caterpillars and other insects, use a bit of corrugated card rolled up in a cut off plastic bottle. But a good prune for light and air will do it the world of good. It’s not a 1 year job, look at doing some decent cuts this year and next, then after that it should be slightly more cuts of smaller branches. Strongly growing upright wood won’t fruit much, anything in shade will also be poor, but the answer might be removing the branch shading not the one in shade.
Got some time to get some picking done today. Can’t think of anything better to do with my time, I just love it but it is hard work.
Whenever I talk to people in Kent about growing apples in Cheshire they usually react as if I am at the North Pole. I was told by a big apple grower just last year that Cox won’t survive this far North. Here are a few pics of them not surviving.
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Thank you but you are wrong about the bird damage. Not much of a percentage but there's quite a few with small holes. I think it is birds but it could possibly be mice/voles up the tree.Amazing quality there, shows what can be done when trees are looked after properly. and no bird damage anywhere.
This one couldn't decide which tree it was supposed to be on.Most trees have well coloured fruit but you can pick out trees here and there that are much less coloured
I may be able to help, which were you after in particular? Can't promise to have them but no harm asking, I certainly don't have the range they do.Where do you buy scions? I tried gb-online, ordered from them in the past, but there's a lot out of stock on their shop just now, ones that I want. No luck phoning or emailing.
I don't put fertiliser on mine and they do well enough. A spray of Epsom salts is about all the nutrients they get, that one makes a big difference to my trees.I was wondering what type of fertilizer should i use on the trees.
I guess I also need to think about spraying if anyone has any suggestions..............
I don't put fertiliser on mine and they do well enough. A spray of Epsom salts is about all the nutrients they get, that one makes a big difference to my trees.
As for spraying, I think I wouldn't bother on a garden scale. Scab is likely to be the biggest issue and if you want to spray for that you need to do it every 10 days until July, too much effort in a garden imo. Mildew can be physically removed, just pinch off any infected bits and burn them.
Codling can be an issue, I would get one or two Codling traps from the garden centre and hope they do enough to protect the trees.
Aphids may come in, depends which sort you get whether it would be worth treating. Woolly aphid are quite horrid things, treat with methylated spirits, just brush on where you see them.
In a garden I think the trees are best left to fend for themselves, quite often spraying can result in the situation being worse than when you started. Spray aphids with the wrong stuff and you will kill all the ladybirds that were eating them, you get more aphids as a result.