4 responses |
Ellen starts with ... Hi Green Thumbers, I am down in Sydney, I want to get a Rose Apple tree into my garden, but I've learned that it will be a very tall tree once mature. But I only want small fruit trees, can I keep the rose apple tree small by cutting it back yearly, would it still fruiting for me ? Same thing with a blue berry plant . I just bought from Daleys 2 Misty variety. Just wondering, once it reach that hedge height, If I keep cutting back the hedge yearly, would it still fruiting for me the same ? | About the Author Ellen smithfield 7th November 2008 9:41am #UserID: 1339 Posts: 309 View All Ellen's Edible Fruit Trees |
Scott G says... Rose apples recover well from heavy pruning and they are very dense. In the open they grow wider than tall. They are shaped a bit like 2/3 of a ball. I am not sure how they fruit following a heavy prune. Perhaps pruning them every second year would give a crop every other year? Mine get fruit fly, while the blueberries dont. How tall is your hedge? My folks have a blueberry farm and it takes blueberries many years to get to 1m tall! | About the Author Scott G The Gold Coast 7th November 2008 1:30pm #UserID: 44 Posts: 117 View All Scott G's Edible Fruit Trees |
|---|---|
Anonymous says... The 2 Misty Blueberries plant I got from Daleys are still quite small, they're in a 140mm pot, jut got repotted. But the 1 Blueberry plant I've got from Flower Power 3 months before, it's roughly 1 metre tall, and I let it stay in a pot, this one I don't know what variety it is, but the fruit is quite big, larger than the Misty's fruit, the shoot that grow tall from this plant, it doesn't fruit much as it is still growing. But the lower branches from it fruit quite heavily . | About the Author 8th November 2008 4:59am #UserID: 0 Posts: View All 's Edible Fruit Trees |
| About the Author 8th November 2008 5:01am #UserID: 0 Posts: View All 's Edible Fruit Trees |
|
Happy Earth says... hello ... we grow rose apples down here in wollongong and very rarely get fruit fly problems with the fruit. hope this helps :) Rich www.happyearth.com.au | About the Author HappyEarth1 Wollongong 8th November 2008 9:25am #UserID: 215 Posts: 94 View All HappyEarth1's Edible Fruit Trees |