What makes trees different from bushes is the presence of apical dominance. Apical dominance is the phenomenon where the highest bud on the plant continually receives the greatest concentration of growth hormone, thus trees grow tall while bushes do not. If you top a tree, the tallest or highest bud is removed so the tree [...]
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Pruning Fruit Trees
Getting the Right Kind of Sugar out of Your Tree The basic idea: Fruit trees manufacture two main types of sugars: cellulose or fructose. Cellulose is a structural sugar meaning that it is the woody portion of the plant, used simply to give the tree its ability to stand and hold itself up. Fructose is [...]
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