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Jul 17, Pruning!! It's such an important thing for your fruit trees especially!

This cut should leave only the branch collar attached to the tree Figure

Here Kath gives you an overview of how to prune a mature fruit tree!Create your own E. Mar 08, Fruit trees are pruned when they are dormant, sometime in late winter.

However, summer pruning can be helpful in shaping the tree to reduce shading of lower limbs. In the example below, we are pruning the trees in mid-July by removing the limbs in the upper portion of the trees that are extending out horizontally into the treegrinding.barted Reading Time: 9 mins. near the top of the tree.

Begin with an undercut three to four inches from where the final cut will be made Figure 9.

The best time to remove these shoots is during summer pruning. Prune the tree to the same height annually. Method two: If the tree is structurally sound but taller than you can manage safely, reduce the tree height slowly over a three-year period.

Once you determine how tall you desire the tree to be,File Size: 95KB.