I planted a 2yr old apple tree in April.
My question is should i let it fruit?
It has started to grow apples and i do know i should NOT let it in the first yr but is that the first yr i have the tree or is it the first yr of the tree life????????
Thank u for any help advice i get
I wouldn't. Some of mine have been so slow to get going that I've started taking the fruit off to give them more energy for growth.
Leave one.... just so you can eat your own... ;D
When I first got trees I bought an apple and pear from a garden centre, they were in big pots and the advice was that I could take the first years fruit.
More recently we have bought those cheap trees from the supermarkets which were almost bare roots, the attached scant information on the label said to remove the first years fruit and encourage root growth.
By we I mean several members of the allotments association. Some did leave one or two fruit on the first year, just to try but the results were tiny tasteless offerings which were not worth eating.
Three years on, the trees are starting to provide a bit of a crop worth having.