There’s something deeply satisfying about picking a crisp, sun-ripened apple straight from your own tree. Whether you’re ...

Rootstock influences the winter hardiness and stability of the tree, determines the tree size, fruit-bearing capabilities, and some rootstocks offer disease-resistant characteristics.

If you don't have a lot of space and you want to grow an apple tree, then you probably would want to go with one of the dwarf apples. And dwarf apples are on malling number nine. It's M-A-L-L-I-N ...

The Himachal Seb Utpadak Sangh has urged the state government to stop the removal of apple trees labeled as 'illegally grown' ...

So if you’re grafting apple trees, you’ll use apple rootstock. Many gardeners like to graft on rootstock that is on a young, established tree — for instance, an apple tree that has been ...

Few activities in gardening are as satisfying as tending to your own fruit trees. Among the most beloved are apple tre ...

Apple trees on poorly anchored, fully dwarfing rootstocks need to be tied to sturdy stakes so the wind doesn’t blow them over. A fence post or two-inch-thick, decay-resistant wooden post, five ...

The apple trees were delivered just after I’d left for the weekend. From afar, I fretted over them like a mother hen. ... All of my trees came on G.11 rootstock developed by the New York State ...

Full size apple trees commonly take 6 to 10 years before bearing fruit. And for those of us fearful of heights, dwarf apples lets tree care take place with feet planted on, or near, terra firma.

Nurseries sell fruit trees with a tag that calls the tree “semi-dwarf." In our area, an apple that is labeled as semi-dwarf is most likely grafted on to M111 rootstock.

American apple growers realized that if they used dwarfing rootstocks and planted their trees closer together, they could increase their harvest of apples per acre by 200 to 300 percent.