robynanne said:Funny that this is coming up now. I've been tending to this apple tree that was a seed my daughter found in a green apple from the store. I've told her the seed is likely for something very different from the apple, and it probably isn't a dwarf size tree, so I don't want a giant apple tree in our yard. I might, however, be able to graph the stem onto another dwarf tree. .. I don't know, something to think about.
We had a very, very old large Haralson Apple tree, I like the big ones they are much tougher, that finally dies of old age two years ago; actually the wind toppled it but the middle of the trunk was rotting.
It started to rot over ten years ago or so, I had big black ants and wood peckers hammering at it, so I covered the bad part with Eucalyptus mulch for quite a few years; did the same with a Mulberry Tree also.
The ants went away and the rot slowed down it not stopped but you can no longer get Eucalyptus mulch here anymore so I had to stop.
We let a sucker grow up from the stump but as expected it is not another Haralson but some little yellow crab apple so if you plant that seed you do not know what you may get.
If you graft that stem, it still may grow far larger than you want.
As an aside, I trimmed our Haralson to the point it looked like a very tall scare crow, about twelve years ago, because it was too thick with branches; with in two years it was thicker and taller than it had been but the new branches were not as strong as the old one and I started to have large branches break off , three or more inches in diameter, from the weight of the apples.
