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Idared is a good looking apple with a flattened spherical shape. The background green colour is strongly streaked red on the sun-facing side especially if the apples are left on the tree a long time. The skin is tougher than most and for kids, peeling the apples may well be needed.

Idared Apples. Oct 07, When is the best time to prune an apple tree? The best time to prune apple trees is either late in the winter or early in the spring because that’s the time when the tree is entering a dormant state after shedding its leaves and before new buds appear.

Flowering and fruit picking dates vary according to the weather in any particular growing season so the above dates may well change slightly from one year to the next.

It’s best to complete the pruning just before the growth starts in the spring, so the cuts have time to heal quickly. Jul 23, On a mature fruit producing apple tree, pruning should remove the older, less fruit productive branches after their peak three to five year period. Summer is the best time to remove these older limbs when it is most obvious which ones those are. It is also a good time to prune diseased or damaged areas of the apple tree as they become visible.

Pruning Regular pruning is required - see apple pruning; spur bearing Pests Aphids, woolly aphid, rosy apple aphid, fruit tree red spider mite, mussel scale, codling moth and caterpillars are the main pests on edible apples Diseases Susceptible to apple canker and apple scab; very prone to powdery mildews.

We have a beautiful, old apple tree that bears a lot of fruit!

The beauty of vertical cordon fruit trees is that their slim structure allows you to plant them closer together. This allows gardeners to plant a wide choice of fruit cultivars in a relatively small amount of space. Unlike traditionally shaped fruit trees, columnar apple trees can be.