Lordkiwi
Yearling... With promise
Tyni, I'm not sure exactly what you mean by growth style. You can see many examples of my trees on the previous pages. They do grow in a columnar form. They will get some branches which tend to be upright. I did not prune that much to start with as I wanted scionwood to graft with. This winter, I'll prune everything back to a single leader this winter.
I was hoping you could share scions next spring. I also bought the 7 currently available columnar cultivars. I know you where collecting the previous stark spire series and Maypole. Do you think you will have any material from those trees to share after your winter pruning? But given what you have to say about successful tbuding maybe I could invest in sending you root stock and compensating you for tbuding and that first summer of TLC.