What do you do with a block of young Gala trees that have stopped growing before their canopies have filled their spaces? International Fruit Tree Association members pondered the question during a visit to an orchard owned by Adams County Nursery in Aspers, Pennsylvania, earlier this year. Chris Baugher, the nursery’s vice president of operations, showed the group a fourth-leaf block of Gale Gala apples on Budagovsky 9 rootstocks that had been planted on a 4- by 16-foot spacing. Dr. Jim Schupp, pomologist at Pennsylvania State University, said B.9 is a low-vigor rootstock. The block site was a former stone […]