Elstar Apple tree

Owner: johncole4321@yahoo.co.uk

Age:	Planted in about 2007
Age of this tree:	18 years
Rootstock:	mm 106
Soil:	heavy clay on chalk
Climate at this location:	dryish mild
Pruning:	Light pruning, this tree tends to like growing tall.
Tree form:	Half-standard
Height:	Between 6ft / 2m and 15ft / 4m
Cropping:	Biennial cropping (alternate years)
Growth:	This tree grows easily here
Herbicides:	Un-treated
Pesticides:	Un-treated
Local pests:	aphid

No pests May.Quiet a few maggots may be codling moth,June drop may be slightly not heavy enough.

2020
Spring blossom: 4 March
Size: 2.5m / 8.3ft high 2.5m / 8.3ft wide
Moderate winter prune. Tree becoming a bit high reduced top 2 ft. Blossom much reduced but more than cox.
2019
Spring blossom: 5 May
Harvest: 1st week August 9kg / 20lbs
Size: 3.0m / 10.0ft high
Good size nice and juicy
2016
Spring blossom: 4 March
Size: 2.5m / 8.3ft high 2.0m / 6.7ft wide
Canker: Not present
Scab: Not present
Mildew: Not present
Fireblight: Not present
Cedar-apple rust: Not present
Woolly aphid: Not present
Codling moth: Not present
Plum fruit moth: Not present
Silverleaf: Not present
Poor blossom
2015
Spring blossom: 4 May
Harvest: 4th week September 10kg / 22lbs
Size: 3.0m / 10.0ft high 2.0m / 6.7ft wide
Canker: Not present
Scab: Mild attack
Mildew: Not present
Cedar-apple rust: Not present
Woolly aphid: Not present
Codling moth: Mild attack
Silverleaf: Not present
Heavy blossom early rain but dryish late April.Large apples grow along bows Good crop.
2012
Size: 1.5m / 5.0ft high 1.5m / 5.0ft wide
2011
Spring blossom: 21 April
another cold winter with some snow,rather dry march/april.hardly any blossom just one apple
2010
Spring blossom: 9 May
Harvest: 2nd week September
spring colder than usual, very dry summer fruit never matured