Update on my pugged cogshall

[sunworshiper]

Thought I'd show the progress on the cogshall I pugged earlier in the summer. Here it was in the spring - it had outgrown my shelter for winter and the strong upright growth didn't fruit well:


Shortly after pugging:


And now:


It will easily fit within my frost shelter, and with any luck it will still fruit in spring=)

[TropicalFruitHunters]

Turned out nice.  Good job.

[MarinFla]

The shape is so much nicer! Great job. It always feels like a leap of faith when you start pugging away.

[sunworshiper]

Thanks! It is fun but also scary to prune that much!

[puglvr1]

Great job Sun!!! It turned out really nice...I know exactly how scary it is to "pug" a tree,lol...every single time I do it I still "worry" 

[MangoFang]

Way to go Pug Worshipper!

The tree looks tough, stocky and ready for a fight.....
Hope you get a bucketful of fruit this coming year...


gary

[sunworshiper]

Thanks! On today's walk around I saw new swellings of growth forming - hoping for flowers rather than vegetative growth, although it seems too early for flowers still. 

Pug Worshipper - love it=)

Angela

[zands]

The shape is so much nicer! Great job. It always feels like a leap of faith when you start pugging away.

Definitely a leap of faith. My Fairchild mango was pugged a few years ago and has turned out great yielding many fruit. If not for what I read here (actually garden web) I was going to pull it out. Pugging is the way to go in extremis. You give the tree another chance. In my case the Fairchild was black moldy covered

[sunworshiper]

Zands, so great to hear your good success with pugging! Did your tree yield fruit the year after pugging it, or did it take more than one year to recover enough?

[TropicalFruitHunters]

I've seen them do this with very large and much older trees while in Thailand.  A rejuvenation! 

[zands]

Zands, so great to hear your good success with pugging! Did your tree yield fruit the year after pugging it, or did it take more than one year to recover enough?

Did your tree yield fruit the year after pugging it,
 
It did and it is doing great today. Yielded 4 or so mangoes that first post pug year. It had been rooting in for two and half years before I pugged it. I pugged because the top growth looked stringy and had black soot mold all over. Today it looks nice and bushy

So best of luck with your tree!

[sunworshiper]

Thanks Zands! That's great that it fruited the year after pugging. Mine yielded about 6 mangos this year before pugging, and this was its first year fruiting.  I'm hoping it will produce a few next year too. Great to hear it is possible=)