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Decision Time For My ‘Air-Pot Mini-Orchard’ Apple Trees

An interesting idea that still has potential, but mistakes (many mistakes) were made. Time to reboot.

Published November 6, 2021
Categorised as Feature Articles, Orchard Trials Tagged air-pot, apple, Blenheim Orange, cornish aromatic, experiment, herefordshire russet, pot growing, trial

Re-Thinning Apples in the Air-Pot Mini Orchard

With apple fruitlets a little on the small size, it was time to re-thin the pot-grown apple trees.

Published August 10, 2021
Categorised as Feature Articles, Top Fruit Thinning Tagged air-pot, apple, thinning

Time To Thin Out The Apples

Thinning out weaker, surplus fruitlets helps to improve the size and quality of the final fruits.

Published July 2, 2017
Categorised as Feature Articles, Orchard Work Tagged air-pot, apple, cornish aromatic, herefordshire russet, mini-orchard, thinning

Air-Pot Mini-Orchard Update: It’s Blossom Time

A healthy display of blossom should hopefully mean a few fruits to enjoy later in the year.

Published May 2, 2017
Categorised as Feature Articles Tagged air-pot, apple, Blenheim Orange, blossom, cherry, cornish aromatic, crab apple, herefordshire russet, john downie, mini-orchard, Morello

Establishing Our Air-Pot Mini Orchard

In which we plant out our new fruit trees into air-pot containers.

Published February 18, 2017
Categorised as Feature Articles, Orchard Work Tagged air-pot, apple, Blenheim Orange, cherry, cornish aromatic, crab apple, formative pruning, herefordshire russet, john downie, mini-orchard, Morello, mycorrhizal fungi, tree planting
  1. Darren T on Decision Time For My ‘Air-Pot Mini-Orchard’ Apple TreesNovember 26, 2023

    Nope, absolutely perfect timing :)

  2. Darren T on Decision Time For My ‘Air-Pot Mini-Orchard’ Apple TreesNovember 26, 2023

    Wow. Amanda, thank you so much, that is *amazing* advice. I was planning to spend hours and hours researching the…

  3. Amanda on Decision Time For My ‘Air-Pot Mini-Orchard’ Apple TreesNovember 26, 2023

    sorry- that was just a tad late

  4. Amanda on Decision Time For My ‘Air-Pot Mini-Orchard’ Apple TreesNovember 26, 2023

    Also, regarding planting in pots and exhaustion of nutrients and deterioration of soil structure, I'll share what I've done with…

  5. Darren T on My Fruit Harvest Highlights – 2023 EditionNovember 22, 2023

    You're welcome Russ! Best of luck with your grafting experiments, please do keep me posted.

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