SELECTING ROOTSTOCKS TO CREATE HI-STEM APPLE TREES WITH WEEPING CROWN
Apple trees weeping crown is of a great interest for ornamental horticulture. The peculiarity of the technology of growing these seedlings is to produce a vaccination (budding) not at the usual height of 15-40 cm, but much higher, i. e. 150 cm and more. In this case, the demands to rootstock increase both in length and in quality of the cuttings separated in mother plant. they must have strictly vertical growth direction, with no branching and premature shoots (prickly). As a result of the research we recorded a vigorous apple rootstock Е56 of the Estonian breeding, with the necessary agronomic traits for the production of hi-stem apple trees with weeping crown to be used in landscaping and landscape construction.