We describe how to create a crown Apple Trees: Recommendations and advice of specialists gardeners

Sparsely-tiered shape

It can be said that this form is very similar to the natural. What are the advantages of this form of the crown? Firstly, it helps to ensure good coverage.

Secondly, it improves the quality and yield of fruit trees. Advice on how to form a crown:

· Leave the branches no more than just over a tier.

· Do not leave more than nine of the skeletal branches. Spread them around the barrel.

· Distance between the tiers should have about 0.8 meters, and between the branches of - about 0.4 meters.

· The lower tier must be branch of the second order.

· When you get to form the crown, the height of which will be four meters and a width of five meters, cut the wire. It can take up to seven years.

· Instead of a conductor to leave the apple inclined lateral branch.

cup shape

This kind of crown can be formed as well as the sparsely-tiered. More specifically, it is possible to use the same principle. The only difference - the crown of the cup there is no center conductor. Advice on how to form a crown:

· Leave the seedlings shtamb whose height would be about fifty centimeters. At the same time it is also very important to leave thirty centimeters on the formation of skeletal branches. Everything else can be cut.

· The next year should be on the bole form three skeletal branches. At the same time it is very important to cut the wire.

When will form a branch of the second and third order, all the branches, which look at the crown center, clipped.

vertical palmette

Apple tree with a crown grow normally in some fencing. The advantages of this type is the possibility of growing a fruit tree in a limited area, or use as an ornamental plant.

Advice on how to form a crown:

· It is necessary to plant a sapling without branches, and hold it along the wire, as well as to drive a pole. The trunk of apple trees should be cut down to fifty centimeters from the ground level.

· During the summer, you should create a major escape, and send it along the pole, which should drive the first stage of formation. Shoots should tie up.

· In the autumn should be placed horizontal lateral branches. To do this, they should be stretched to the tie in the first stage of the wire. All other shoots should be cut to a third kidney.

· In the spring it is important to cut the main conductor, and leave the site with only three kidneys.

Horizontal branches should also be cut by one third. Superfluous shoots should be cut to a third kidney.

· In summer it is very important to carry out the formation of the crown. More precisely, it is necessary to form the second tier of the scheme. All unnecessary shoots should be reduced (to leave only three buds).

· In the autumn of the next horizontal shoots to tie to the wire.

· After all the action, when the formation is finished, the center conductor should be cut. Experts advise to leave only five tiers.

Subsequently, the shoots, which will be formed between the layers, it is necessary to cut off.