Empire Apple tree

Owner: Khashline@Gmail.Com

Location: Rouses Point, NEW YORK, United States

Age:	Planted in about 2014
Age of this tree:	11 years
Soil:	loomy
Climate at this location:	zone 4b
Pruning:	open center
Tree form:	Half-standard
Height:	Between 6ft / 2m and 15ft / 4m
Cropping:	Heavy crops
Growth:	This tree grows fairly well here
Herbicides:	Manual treatment (hoeing and weeding)
Pesticides:	Organic treatments
Local pests:	plum coculio and codling moth

Owner's comments

Tends to have very large flowering and lots of apple sets but it does do a heavy drop as well. 2017 was a great year for this tree it's best yet, lot's of fruit on it I am very pleased with it's growth and fruit production this year.

Season records for this tree

2017
Spring blossom: 24 May
Harvest: 1st week October 2kg / 4lbs
Size: 2.5m / 8.3ft high 2.0m / 6.7ft wide
Canker: Mild attack
Scab: Mild attack
Fireblight: Not present
Cedar-apple rust: Mild attack
Codling moth: Not present
Plum fruit moth: Mild attack
Silverleaf: Not present
I had a bad pruning three seasons ago that I neglected to fix and this past year my tree developed a pretty severe canker that I tried controlling with a isophplic alcohol spray. This 2017 season the tree seems to have recovered from my treating it. It's healing itself now.