About this Ashmead's Kernel Apple tree
Owner: Dave
Location: SANTA BARBARA, CALIFORNIA, United States
Visiting: By arrangement
| Age: | Planted in about 2010 |
| Soil characteristics at this location: | heavy clay |
| Climate at this location: | warm spring, summer and fall, light winter frost |
| Pruning: | Mostly summer pruning for size control |
| Age of this tree: | Not sure |
| Tree form: | Central leader (widest at bottom) |
| Height: | Up to 6ft / 2m |
| Cropping: | Heavy crops |
| Growth characteristics: | This tree grows easily here |
| Herbicides: | Manual treatment (hoeing and weeding) |
| Pesticides: | Not sure |
Owner's comments
This is one of my favorite apple varieties. It is precocious and has been heavy-bearing here, and when thinned it can produce a few large apples among the many small to medium ones. The apples are tart with a little sweetness, juicy and have a slightly grainy texture that I enjoy. This is one of four trees planted close together in a square pattern, with about two feet between each tree. Each tree gets a quarter-circle of space to grow and is kept small so that I can have many varieties in a small area. I am experimenting with apple varieties that are not known to grow good fruit in Southern California, which are almost all apple varieties. I remove trees that grow bad fruit. Ones that grow good fruit but are not my favorites are likely to end up in the edges of my yard, while my favorites (like Ashmead's Kernel) get a little more room in the center. 2014: It looks like I didn't thin the tree enough, so I have a crop of small apples this year.Season records for this tree
| Season | Blossom date | Picking date / Yield | Size | Season notes |
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| 2014 | 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 |
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| 2013 | 2nd week September 3kg / 7lbs |
2.0m / 6.7ft high 1.5m / 5.0ft 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 The harvest this year was about 20 apples, ranging in size from small to fairly large, with most of them small to medium. |
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