Wild crab apples

[NT179]

I been finding lots of wild fruit trees on our farm.Saskatoons,chokecherrys,cranberrys ,plums and apple trees to be exact.I found 1 apple just off the edge of our hay field that is 4-5 inches in dia and straight up like the poplar its with.There are no side branches.If I cut out the poplar,will it start branching out ?This is the only one I found so far like this.The rest have branching on them.Thanks in advance.

 

[sandbur]

Take the popple out and get some light to it.

Somewhere Maya has a comment about injuring the bark just above a bud to stimulate branch growth. It seems liek it has to be done at a certain time of the eyar that is quickly approaching.

Maybe someone can find the link.