Low cordon

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BucksCountyFigs

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Holy crap, look at this great example of low cordon! And can you imagine how gorgeous that air layer he had going on it is going to be?!!

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❌ขายแล้วครับ❌ ขายตอ Black is 2,000 บาทค่ะ เพื่อนๆยุใกล้ๆสวนสนใจมาขุดต้นเองได้เลยค่ะ #หนุ่มบูรพาฟาร์ม
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He is trying to sell the stump and throw in all the tall branches for 2000 baht or $64.5 USD. You have to go in person though and he'll dig up that stump for you. He said something about White Israel or Black Israel. At least that is the main message according to google translate.
 
grasshopper said:
He is trying to sell the stump and throw in all the tall branches for 2000 baht or $64.5 USD. You have to go in person though and he'll dig up that stump for you. He said something about White Israel or Black Israel. At least that is the main message according to google translate.
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Oh shoot, I was hoping I would have been something about growing technique, but thank you for letting us know!
 
I plan to espalier in the spring I'm plan on 5 but I'm trying to decide which because doing that means pruning a lot - almost all the wood from the previous year so you will be losing all the breba. So i want to choose trees with poor breba crops or ones I have copies of so I'll have a second tree in a pot to give me brebas.

Ive thought about it a lot because you have to be real diligent in pruning every year - if you prune every year the shoots that go up from the cordon get longer by a node or two each year because you have to leave a node to produce new upward growth so after about 8 years or so it ends up looking like a candelabra with each of those upward branches being 8-10 nodes long or maybe more. So about ever eight years or so one or both or those big cordons has to be lopped off and a new young branch has to be allowed come from the stub and make a new low cordon. So it's a lot. To commit to to do it right.

So I'm thinking I'll do 4-5 trees. Live with it for 2-3 years and see if I decide it's worth it to do more I'm not getting any younger and this would be a very, very long term project.
 
betdempster said:
I plan to espalier in the spring I'm plan on 5 but I'm trying to decide which because doing that means pruning a lot - almost all the wood from the previous year so you will be losing all the breba. So i want to choose trees with poor breba crops or ones I have copies of so I'll have a second tree in a pot to give me brebas.

Ive thought about it a lot because you have to be real diligent in pruning every year - if you prune every year the shoots that go up from the cordon get longer by a node or two each year because you have to leave a node to produce new upward growth so after about 8 years or so it ends up looking like a candelabra with each of those upward branches being 8-10 nodes long or maybe more. So about ever eight years or so one or both or those big cordons has to be lopped off and a new young branch has to be allowed come from the stub and make a new low cordon. So it's a lot. To commit to to do it right.

So I'm thinking I'll do 4-5 trees. Live with it for 2-3 years and see if I decide it's worth it to do more I'm not getting any younger and this would be a very, very long term project.
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You don't need to prune a lot. Just bend/weigh them down gradually over time or during active growing season. I did couple of mine without cutting a single branch. The bending can be as short as 1-3 weeks. There is a risk of snapping them off if you are not careful or your area is windy. I snapped couple ones off accidentally. :(
 
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