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Pruning fruit trees

Pruning allows you to maintain the trees in good condition and significantly increases the yield. Cutting some branches of a Mature, fruiting tree, you reduce the amount of formed fruit it and provide better illumination inside the crown. The remaining fruits grow better (and harvest from this tree in terms of kg will also be more), have a more attractive appearance. Increase air circulation and penetration into the crown of solar rays to prevent the development of diseases.

Perform pruning in the spring until the movement of the juice in the plant, while the tree is still asleep, but the wood is not frozen.

Young trees with a light crop usually form a crown-tiered with a Central conductor.
 



 

When the tree begins to bear fruit, you will need to produce more severe pruning, cut, and shorten the branches. This measure will allow to increase the yield of a tree to create a crown structure able to withstand a greater harvest.

How to do the pruning.

Cut every year. Annual removal of several branches transferred your tree less painful than hard pruning every 2-3 years. Usually you can cut from the crown a number of branches approximately equal to last year's growth, (but not more than 1/3 of all the branches of a tree), you might want to remove the new branch, but first and foremost, try to cut out the old one.

Do not perform severe pruning of dwarf trees. Dwarf trees grow more slowly than usual, so their annual pruning should not be as strong.

Properly prune branches. Cut the branch at an angle above the kidneys, located outside branches. Trim angle ensures quick runoff of water from the slice, and trim over outside the kidney contributes to the formation of escape.

How to properly remove branches from large garden trees?
 Cut out old stems. Some varieties of apples, pears and plums fruits are formed not on the major branches, and minor branches extending from them. When a large thickening of the crown cut out the oldest and least productive branches.

Keep and maintain the growth of branches in the horizontal direction. Upward branches give strong growth, but their productivity is lower than horizontal. Downward and drooping branches — the least productive, and the fruit they get less light. Maintain the growth of branches in the horizontal direction, cutting aimed straight up or down the growing shoots. published

 

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