Can you copice a cherry tree? I ask as mum has one, but it is a monster and she cannot get to the fruit anymore. On my allotment, the fella on the plot next to me cut down his apple tree leaving a 4 foot stump - did this last year. This year loads of whippy branches grew, which are now laden with apples! Would cherry do the same? The cherry tree is a good 15 years or more old and is a sweet yellow eater. Fanks! ;D
I would imagine so, though if you're cutting at four feet that's more akin to pollarding than coppicing.
aha, it was late Robert and I kinda knew in my mind what I meant. I wouldn't want to cut it down to a stump at ground level, but then would that work also???? Would please mum no end.
why not try with part of the tree, just a few branches to see what happens - I have had to do this with my 2 gages as they were supposed to be on dwarf stock but have become huge and not very prolific, so I am hoping the hard pruning will work
My Cambridge Gage is growing like mad as well; what is it you have? I suppose you could coppice a cherry, but if it's strong growing it'll soon shoot up again. You'll lose the crop for a couple of years until it's got a reasonable amount of fruiting wood again.