Identify and Prune Undesirable Growth

trees so here we are at a crossroads in time in the summertime when your trees start to grow when they start to put on foliage okay so we're getting to where the summer time might start to cool down a little bit and the trees will start putting out new foliage now you don't want them to waste their energy putting out new foliage on branches that are just undesirable so we're going to look in here at this tree right here and go through some of the branches that are undesirable and the reason why they're undesirable so folks what we're looking at right here is about a three year old apple tree okay and what we have are three major branches coming off of this apple tree we have another branch that blossomed out this spring and we really don't need that branch these extra branches right here that it popped out there from our pruning in the fall and we want to get rid of those guys we want to let this tree flourish on just these three main branches so what we'll do is we'll come in here and we'll cut back just back here all the way up next to the stalk okay I want to get rid of all that stuff those are just undesirable okay what you want to do is open up the inside of this tree right here to allow lots of light to come in to feed your fruit now we're not really looking for this tree to be a fruiting apple tree for at least probably another two years but we want to set it up for success to have a successful fruiting tree so the basic gist of what we're