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I don't think it's looking good for my apple tree, but I thought I'd ask to experts 
It's an M27 dwarf tree in a container that started looking a bit sickly last year. The leaves were all yellow, then it got a lot of pests on the leaves and fruit. Eventually I worked out it was waterlogged. The drainage holes in the container had become blocked. So when it was dormant I took the tree out, and replanted it with better drainage around the bottom of the pot (crocks and a bit of gravel as a layer on top before the compost went back in, and it got a good mulch of garden compost last week). My patio cherry tree that's next to the M27, so has the same amount of sun, is in leaf and starting to blossom (that's only happened about a week ago though), another apple tree in a container that's a MM106 rootstock and is in a sunnier spot has been in leaf about 2 weeks now. This M27 isn't showing much of anything happening. It still looks like a 'skinny branched' winter tree, no swelling of the buds, nothing. I've had a little bit of a fiddle in the pot and it's not overly wet, and there are some fibrous roots around, and when I scraped a tiny bit of the bark on one of the branches it's green underneath. Will it recover? Is there anything I can do to help kickstart it back to growing again? Or is it a goner?
Ta in advance for any help you can give.
Jo
It's an M27 dwarf tree in a container that started looking a bit sickly last year. The leaves were all yellow, then it got a lot of pests on the leaves and fruit. Eventually I worked out it was waterlogged. The drainage holes in the container had become blocked. So when it was dormant I took the tree out, and replanted it with better drainage around the bottom of the pot (crocks and a bit of gravel as a layer on top before the compost went back in, and it got a good mulch of garden compost last week). My patio cherry tree that's next to the M27, so has the same amount of sun, is in leaf and starting to blossom (that's only happened about a week ago though), another apple tree in a container that's a MM106 rootstock and is in a sunnier spot has been in leaf about 2 weeks now. This M27 isn't showing much of anything happening. It still looks like a 'skinny branched' winter tree, no swelling of the buds, nothing. I've had a little bit of a fiddle in the pot and it's not overly wet, and there are some fibrous roots around, and when I scraped a tiny bit of the bark on one of the branches it's green underneath. Will it recover? Is there anything I can do to help kickstart it back to growing again? Or is it a goner?
Ta in advance for any help you can give.
Jo
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