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Ashmead's Kernel Apple tree

Owner: Gil

Location:  Snohomish, WASHINGTON, United States

Age:Planted in about 2012
Age of this tree:14 years
Soil:clayloam 
Climate at this location:wet spring
Pruning:none
Tree form:Espalier
Height:Up to 6ft / 2m
Cropping:Medium crops
Growth:This tree grows fairly well here
Herbicides:Un-treated
Pesticides:Un-treated
Local pests:cm, am, scab

Owner's comments

tasty med-light cropping

Season records for this tree

  • 2015

    Spring blossom: 23 April
  • 2014

    Spring blossom: 23 April
    Harvest: 4th week September  9kg / 20lbs
    Size: 1.5m / 5.0ft high   1.0m / 3.3ft wide
    Canker: Not present
    Scab: Mild attack
    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
    Vigorous. Notr for bud 9 on espalier I'd put it on m27 and it'd still be 10 feet high.