Prune Low and Inward-Growing Branches

you're here for right all right let's examine this tree see these branches these low branches they're just no good for anything they're just energy sucking branches so we're going to go ahead and we'll get our cutters and we'll snip those off okay we're gonna cut back here see their growth rings right here and that's where the hormone is the growth hormone in the tree if you cut it here that is going to cause new growth if you cut it back here you get in that growth ring and you cut off that new growth now you're gonna think I'm scalping this tree but if you look here you can see there are three major branches one two three and they're all coming off at the correct angles that we want there's also another one here but this angle this crotch angle right here is just a little tighter than what you see here okay I'm gonna leave this guy this year and I'm gonna take this one out because this limb here will shade that limb so let's cut him out now with these apple trees I don't want a shoot shooting up to the sky here I'm gonna be able to pick my apples so we're gonna do a drastic cut right here and we're going to get rid of this guy we're gonna get rid of that central leader right there because I want this tree to bloom out like that okay so that I can walk all the way around it and pick my apples get rid of these little dudes now I'm gonna cut this one because the crotch angle is just way too tight okay I'm gonna cut him off all right then I'm gonna go right above this little growth ring area where the growth hormone is and I'm gonna cut right there boom I took that central leader off and we'll also get this guy right here now look at this tree it's really lopsided so let's go on and get in here and take that guy off and then this guy I think we'll be okay and then that's appropriately trimmed lopsided tree now here's an example of a pear tree that's just overcrowded look at this guy right here see how that's rubbing up against there we got to get rid of that it's just growing this actually comes up off and grows toward the inside so we want to get rid of this whole limb right here okay we want to cut him way back all the way back to here and these cutters really do a good job yeah get that guy out of there now see this guy he's crossing over - okay go ahead and get rid of this because it's rubbing right there and we want to get rid of any diseased or broken branches another