Root Cure: New flower for old fruit trees


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In many gardens are old apple or pear trees, which hardly bear flowers and fruits. With a rejuvenation of the root system, you can give these tree veterans a proverbial second spring. After the root cure, the fruit trees form more flowers and bear significantly more fruits.

How to do it

As soon as the trees have thrown off their leaves, they start: Mark a large circle around the tree along the outer edge of the crown, the so-called eaves area, with bright building sand. Then, using a sharp spade, lift three spade-wide, 30 to 40-centimeter-deep trenches along the marked zone, consistently cutting off all roots. The total length of the three trenches should be about half of the total circumference (see drawing).

Apple tree roots rejuvenate

Lift three trenches in the eaves area of ​​the crown and prick off all the roots

After capping the roots, fill the trenches with a 1: 1 mix of excavated soil and mature compost. If your tree is often prone to fungal attack, you can boost its resistance by adding horsetail extract and clay minerals (such as bentonite). Also, spread algae lime throughout the crown to encourage root growth of the fruit tree and improve the supply of trace minerals.
After a short time thick clumps of fine roots form on the capped root ends. They provide the tree with plenty of water and nutrients, because the amount of rainfall in the eaves of the crown is particularly high and the compost provides the necessary nutrient salts. Important: Cut back the crown after treatment only slightly, because a pruning slows root growth. Better is a summer cut in the next year, when it can be seen how the tree reacts to the treatment. The whole success of the measure is evident in the second year after the makeover, when the newly formed flower buds open in spring and the tree bears much more fruit again in the summer.

Root Cure: New flower for old fruit trees

FAQ - 💬

❓ What is the rooting compound for fruit trees?

👉 Willow water: the secret to propagating fruit trees. Willow water works great as a natural rooting hormone for all plant cuttings. You can also use willow water to water already rooted plants to help them develop a strong root system. Indolebutyric acid (IBA) is a plant hormone that stimulates root growth.

❓ What is the oldest method of propagating fruit trees?

👉 One of the oldest methods of propagating fruit trees is by keeping the roots moist toencourage formation of roots.

❓ How to do chip budding?

👉 How to chip bud

  1. To prepare the rootstock, cut off all shoots and leaves from the bottom 30cm (1ft) of stem.
  2. To prepare the 'budstick', remove the soft, fleshy, tip growth and remove all leaves with knife or secateurs, leaving 3-4 mm (1/8in) stubs of leaf stalk.

❓ How do you graft to rootstock?

👉 A small, rectangular section of bark is removed from the rootstock, and a matching section is removed from the scion wood. The scion wood is then inserted into the space created by the missing bark on the rootstock, and the two pieces are secured with grafting tape or similar material.

❓ How do you make homemade rooting compound?

👉 Together honey contains antibacterial antiseptic and antifungal properties as well as promotes healthy root growth soak plant cuttings in the honey.

❓ What is rooting hormone solution?

👉 Rooting hormone products are chemicals that stimulate root growth, typically on plant cuttings. These synthetic commercial products mimic auxin, which is a natural plant hormone that stimulates root growth. Rooting hormone comes in powder, liquid, or gel form. You don't need to use rooting hormone for cuttings.

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