Beginner Gardening: Dwarf apple tree advice?, 2 by jmc1987

jmc1987 wrote:
Not sure what category to place this on exactly since the reorganizing of the website, so i do apologize if posting it here is incorrect.

I purchased a multi variety grafted dwarf apple tree and planted it in spring of last year, and things were going great at first (photos 1 and 2), that is until the deer took notice of it, and they started chewing the branches closer and closer to the main stem. So in order to save it i had no other choice but wait until a rainy day when the ground was soft, and dig it back out, and plant it into a jumbo sized container (photo 3), and it seemed to accept it and start growing again towards the autumn, and held onto its leaves well into december (mild winter), which is photo #4