CORONET FAMILY APPLE TREE - RADICAL PRUNING

Radical, I know, but I got so fed up of my Coronet Family apple tree (I only bought it last year) not doing as well as it might, that I attacked it with my secateurs the other day.  First I had a wonderful cherry tree which became diseased and had to go, and now this.  These trees are not cheap you know!  The top part of this small Coronet Family Apple Tree, which is grafted on, is the James Grieve variety and the fruit is healthy and good to eat (so far). But, the lower part, onto which James Grieve is grafted, is the Cox's Pippin variety and it has been PATHETIC! Yes, pathetic.  The fruit cracks, it looks unhealthy, remains small and inedible.  It's not happy.  I'm not happy.  So, I cut off ever single branch of the Cox's variety so that only the James Grieve type remains.  We'll see how it fares.  It's do, or die and get out of my garden time.   Tough love. 






Apple Tree Coronet Family James Grieve and Coxs Pippin with the Coxs branches cut off

Here you can see how the Cox's apples looked last year.  Even then, in their first year, they were pathetic.  And here you can see the disease on the Prunus Avium Stella cherry tree.  That was tragic.  It had been such a beautiful tree but there was nothing that could be done for it.   

I'll let you know how the Coronet apple tree gets along. 

Apple Tree Coronet Family James Grieve and Coxs Pippin with the Coxs branches cut off