Identify Branches for Removal

so first things first let's talk about the trees okay now this is a pear tree right here and I'm going to show you the limbs that we don't want the things that we don't want just give you a basic rundown of information that you need to know for pruning your trees and this will pertain to pruning your trees in the winter in the late winter you can look at the trees now and tell that they're not even starting to bud this is the perfect time there are not a lot of pests and the risk for the tree getting some sort of infection or disease it's pretty low this time of year so as we look at the tree here you can see several branches that are growing inward we want to get rid of those and branches that are touching one another that will end up eventually rubbing one another those are not beneficial branches okay we also want to look at the angle at which these branches come out we don't want a very sharp angle we want the angle to be somewhere near a ninety degree angle the closer to a ninety degree angle the better off it will be so what you need to know is a wintertime