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Top working project
sunworshiper:
Hi all. I've decided to top work my cogshall. Pretty tree but the fruit don't ripen well - jelly seed and soft nose. I'm making the cuts for e top work and would love some opinions on where to place them.
Tree before I started with some frost damage.
Bulk off so I can see the scaffolds
Some big cuts made leavin a nurse branch on the left
Had hoped to keep the y half of the biggest cut in this pic. But there was some dead wood - I took off half the y to get to healthy wood - so opinions - leave half the y or cut clean below it leaving a stub on the primary scaffold? Here's a close up
sunworshiper:
Here's the close up
mangomongo:
I have a general question on topworki to slow growing cultivars.
It you were to top work a vigorous type to an Established slow growing type. I.e. peach cobbler or the legendary Orange sherbert to a Cogshall on a turpentine root stock would you still get vigorous growth on your new cultivator, as in would the Cogshall trunk grow fast enough to support sustained vigor? Or would the new cultivator reach a point where it is significantly slowed with a dwarfing effect from the Cogshall?
skhan:
--- Quote from: sunworshiper on February 18, 2018, 11:44:09 AM ---Here's the close up
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I'm a sucker for symmetry (or as close to it as i can get)
I'd remove that lateral nub and graft the varieties to the new lateral shoots that emerge from the vertical nub.
Then I'd remove the nursing branches next year.
skhan:
--- Quote from: mangomongo on February 21, 2018, 04:12:36 AM ---I have a general question on topworki to slow growing cultivars.
It you were to top work a vigorous type to an Established slow growing type. I.e. peach cobbler or the legendary Orange sherbert to a Cogshall on a turpentine root stock would you still get vigorous growth on your new cultivator, as in would the Cogshall trunk grow fast enough to support sustained vigor? Or would the new cultivator reach a point where it is significantly slowed with a dwarfing effect from the Cogshall?
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I always wondered this myself.
It doesn't look like my Cac/Coc grafted onto a Kiett on Turp is slowing down though
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