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Summer Rambo Apple tree

Owner: Tomec88@Yahoo.Com

Location:  Stanhope, IA, United States

Age:Planted in about 1940
Age of this tree:84 years
Soil:clay loam 
Climate at this location:hot summers cold winters 4b borderline
Pruning:prune to keep center open and to maintain picking height
Tree form:Standard
Height:Between 6ft / 2m and 15ft / 4m
Cropping:Not specified
Growth:Not specified
Herbicides:Un-treated
Pesticides:Organic treatments
Local pests:cedar rust brown spot

Owner's comments

this tree is hollow,about 20 inch diameter, and it lost a major limb this winter splitting off near the ground, my estimate if age is the tree rings from a branch that started about five feet up.

Season records for this tree

  • 2016

    Spring blossom: 19 April
    Size: 5.5m / 18.3ft high   7.5m / 25.0ft wide
    Canker: Not present
    Scab: Not present
    Mildew: Not present
    Fireblight: Not present
    Cedar-apple rust: Not present
    Woolly aphid: Not present
    Plum fruit moth: Not present
    This old apple tree lost about one third of its mass this winter and spring. still going down hill for about the last four years. very dry this year after a very wet last year.
  • 2015

    Spring blossom: 22 April
    Scab: Mild attack
    Cedar-apple rust: Mild attack
  • 2014

    Spring blossom: 13 May
  • 2013

    Spring blossom: 17 May
    Harvest: 3rd week August