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Bramley's Seedling Apple tree
Owner: Jan
Location: Castel D'Aiano, BOLOGNA, Italy
| Age: | Planted in about |
| Rootstock: | MM106 (I think) |
| Soil: | shallow clay/chalk on rock |
| Climate at this location: | very hot dry summers, severe long winters |
| Pruning: | Not yet |
| Tree form: | Central leader (widest at bottom) |
| Height: | Not sure |
| Cropping: | Not specified |
| Growth: | Not specified |
| Herbicides: | Manual treatment (hoeing and weeding) |
| Pesticides: | Chemical treatments |
| Local pests: | aphids,canker,codling moth,deer,wild boar,processional (I think moths) plant louse (some kind of sap-sucking hemipteran) |
Owner's comments
Container grown. Planted beginning June 2011. Immediately badly damaged by violent hailstorm. We'll see if it survives.Season records for this tree
2011
Harvest: 3rd week July
Bad Hail damage but still a very heavy crop2010
2009
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