Our young apple Scrumptious tree produced more young fruit than we expected it to. This variety of apple are quite large and with the tree being very young, we felt the tree would benefit from being a little less top heavy.
To be honest, we assume the tree felt the same way as removing some of the young fruit was not hard to do at all. We left each fruiting branch with either 1, 2 or 3 young apples, depending on how strong the branch was. Got to say, very impressed with this young tree so far. Hope the taste of the fruit lives up to its name.
saarfeastlondoner
/ June 19, 2009we planted a ‘scrumptious’ last year. We only got 3 apples last year but they certainly did live up to the name and they are absolutely beautiful on the tree when ripe. This year we have about 37 fruit coming – hurrah!