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Feb 02, Permaculture designer Chuck Marsh will teach you how to prune your baby apple treegrinding.bar free to visit us at treegrinding.bar Pruning Apple Trees 3 When to Prune If you have a small orchard, delay pruning until it’s nearly spring.

Allow for rain and bad weather, but plan to be finished pruning by May 1 or in time to begin spraying. In many larger orchards, the pruning begins soon after harvest and continues through to spring.

Old trees are pruned first and young trees are left until March and. Begin by removing several of the lowest branches in order to raise the base of the tree. With sharp secateurs or pruning clippers, cut these branches close to the branch bark ridge of the tree.

Make sure the clippers are as close to the tree as possible to get the cleanest cut. Pruning Whips (Unbranched Trees) Whips are unbranched trees. Unbranched apple trees are ideal if you want more control over which branches are allowed to develop – as you might in certain artful pruning styles like espalier.

Yes, you should remove them.

Prune whips back to to inches above the ground at planting time. Pruning stimulates new growth. Removing pruning young apple trees guide older wood in the top of the tree encourages new wood to grow.

The best apples grow on two to four year old wood. The old adage in the fruit industry is A tree is only as old as the wood in it!