I'm planning to help a neighbor top work some of their crabapple trees. I'd like some advice on how to best go about it

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Apple Tree Project: Pruning and Topworking

Background: This apple tree is by far the ugliest tree in my garden. We bought our house four years ago, and this apple tree already was there: unnamed, unformed, unpruned. It was about the same size as it’s now, maybe a little bit smaller. Initially, we only put it on drip irrigation, along with other plants. For first three years it was in heavy shade from a nearby pepper tree, that’s most probably why it became so leggy. We removed the pepper tree about a year ago, and that was the first tim…

2017 Grafting Thread

I think you will find that baby bell wax will stay in place and seal water out

Top working an old apple tree

I topworked an old Black Tartarian (the blackbirds ALWAYS got em early) to a Windsor last spring using this method … they leafed out well last summer. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f4ReeuSPGh4 last spring: [image] But this spring it looks like they are all dead!