Browse Forums Landscape & Garden Design Re: Branching out into espalier 22Mar 15, 2010 5:44 pm If you can have it done to a basic shape in 18 months you have done well Use fertilisers, get pest problems, use pebbles under it and no mulch made of uncomposted material and expect this to be a 3 year project at a minimum. Ever seen a premade one for sale? I have and you need a small loan to buy them. They take a long time and a heap of labour to produce. Use my methods and expect far less hassle and faster but stronger growth with far less disease. Re: Branching out into espalier 24Mar 16, 2010 6:15 pm As mentioned before, I am going to copy your idea, kek, am going to espalier a lemon tree and a tahitian lime against our front wall / fence. However, the tahitian lime I bought doesn't seem to have any side branches, it is all one vertical stem with leaves coming off and no sign of budding sites. Can anybody explain what the situation is ? Will it develop side branches ? cheers Re: Branching out into espalier 25Mar 16, 2010 6:19 pm Cut the tip off where you want horizontal branches to grow - this stimulates lateral growth and you should get a crop of new branches budding. Choose the best 3 suited to the left/right horizontal planes and the vertical direction, and tie them to your frame Snip any others off. Re: Branching out into espalier 26Mar 16, 2010 7:29 pm Vundaful! Cut the tip off where you want horizontal branches to grow - this stimulates lateral growth and you should get a crop of new branches budding. Choose the best 3 suited to the left/right horizontal planes and the vertical direction, and tie them to your frame Snip any others off. What she said.... Who's been doing their homework then...? The fact sheet that I linked to in the other espalier thread (there's a link in this thread somewhere ) has a diagram explaining it. This also has a good description: http://apps.rhs.org.uk/AdviceSearch/profile.aspx?PID=319 Scroll down to the the heading: Pruning an unfeathered maiden (one-year-old tree with no sideshoots) Re: Branching out into espalier 29Mar 16, 2010 8:06 pm keen Thanks. It is quite tall. Do I have to snip off all that growth to my first wire ie 350mm high? Yep..... that's exactly what you do. Re: Branching out into espalier 30Mar 17, 2010 1:53 am The way it is also cut has an effect on the direction the emerging buds will grow. You can't just go snip and have it do what you want Re: Branching out into espalier 32Mar 17, 2010 7:42 pm I just read all the info in the linked sites and went chop, chop. I'll let you know how mine go in a few weeks..... Re: Branching out into espalier 33Mar 17, 2010 10:13 pm The angle the seccies were on when the cut was made can dictate the number of new shoots and the direction the new shoot grows. ie, an upward or downward shoot. Multiple shoots etc. Re: Branching out into espalier 34Mar 18, 2010 7:42 pm Fu Manchu The angle the seccies were on when the cut was made can dictate the number of new shoots and the direction the new shoot grows. ie, an upward or downward shoot. Multiple shoots etc. so which way should you cut it then? 'A bottle of wine contains more philosophy than all the books in the world.' Louis Pasteur Vegie garden: viewtopic.php?f=19&t=27637&start=0 My Backyard Adventure Re: Branching out into espalier 35Mar 19, 2010 9:38 pm Oh man! Now you want our real secrets Trust me you won't find this stuff in many books Re: Branching out into espalier 36Mar 19, 2010 11:51 pm At least make sure you cut on an angle so that you don't snip any lateral buds in half! Be aware that lopping off a tip causes a hormonal response promoting side-growth in the proximal branch too. Also, don't cut on a flat horizontal angle (i.e. leaving a perfectly round cross section) because this prevents moisture from wicking away and encourages disease (just like animals, cutting into a plant is wounding it and opening up its 'body' to micro-organisms). Don't snip too vertical either, as the wound will expose a great deal of tissue to the big, bad world. (P.S. grain of salt issue, I'm a microbiologist not a horticulturist!) Re: Branching out into espalier 37Mar 20, 2010 12:38 am Oh well then there goes many of our techniques a micro biologist... handy to know Re: Branching out into espalier 38Aug 13, 2010 3:36 pm Hi all - I thought I'd post up my espalier efforts to add to the discussion Like ⋅ Add a comment ⋅ Pin to Ideaboard ⋅ You might wonder - what the heck is she doing putting it sideways! But I'm following a slightly different espalier system that should give me fruit a year earlier than the traditional method. The method is called Knee, Navel, Nipple, Nose and was developed by Woodbridge Fruit Trees in Tassie - essentially - it will look like this: Like ⋅ Add a comment ⋅ Pin to Ideaboard ⋅ With bare rooted apples that are 1 yr old, traditional espalier would require me to chop the tip at the first wire, then wait for the laterals. Then the next year (season 2), I'd get fruit on those laterals. This way, I might even be lucky enough to get fruit in season 1. I'm doing 5 apples this way along a fence (Bonza, Red Gala, Pink Lady, Rome Beauty, Granny Smith). I also have a china flat peach and 2 stella cherries - but they require more of a fan-trained approach that horizontal espalier. After 4 years - we're in! Re: Branching out into espalier 40Aug 13, 2010 7:08 pm englyn - I planted the bare rooted tree at a 45 degree angle - then tied it down with wire. Spring should bring some upward shoots - I pick the strongest that reaches to the next wire to bend across and prune off the others. 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