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Understand Pruning Timing & Effects

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FRUIT TREE PRUNING TIPS

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Understand that winter pruning (when the tree is dormant) promotes new growth, while summer pruning tends to retard growth. This knowledge guides when to perform certain pruning tasks based on desired outcomes. Also, actively look for signs of rot or damage on branches, like the example of rot shown on the pear tree, as these affected sections should be removed.

Goal: Distinguish between winter and summer pruning and their effects on tree growth, and recognize signs of disease or damage.

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so what you need to know is a wintertime pruning promotes growth and a summertime pruning [ __ ] growth so here we have an example of a tree with the branches coming off just like it should coming out to the side almost at a ninety degree angle this one's coming out nicely the central leader right here is growing good and if you go around the tree you can see that this branch right here may be a weak point but we'll have to see as time goes on when you're trimming major limbs off like this you need to be thinking is this limb shading the limb below it no it's not is this limb shading any limbs no is this limb shading any limbs well we've got a little bit of an issue here so if we got a little rot going on right here you can see that right there so I think we're going to take this guy out or at least cut this one back because this one is going to shade this limb and you can see the deer have damaged my trees a little bit here too now as you look at the tree further you can see that this is growing overtop of this guy and this one is growing inward we want to open the tree up and bring more light into this tree so that we have more for more light means more limbs means more

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