In this video, I share why you must prune your trees every year! Pruning trees is critical for health, vigor, performance and productivity. This is true of all trees, but especially flowering trees and fruit trees. Pruning fruit trees and pruning flowering trees is mandatory to maximize fruit production and blooming. This will stimulate more fruit and faster growth!
Many people fail to prune trees annually, because they believe pruning a tree harms the tree. The exact opposite is true. Pruning trees, especially fruiting and flowering trees, stimulates the growth of new, vigorous, flowering and fruit-bearing wood, resulting in a stronger, healthier tree in a smaller form factor. Failing to prune trees results in trees accumulating dead wood susceptible to pests, allows inward growth that stifles airflow and promotes diseases, and reduces a tree’s lifespan. Pruning a tree is the most important thing you can do to support that tree’s health and productivity while controlling its growth.
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
0:00 Introduction
0:39 Reason To Prune #1
5:33 How To Prune A Tree: Tree Pruning Tips
6:33 Reason To Prune #2
9:51 These Huge Harvests Are Proof!
11:08 Reason To Prune #3
13:48 Pruning Potted Trees
16:19 Adventures With Dale
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0:00 Introduction
0:39 Reason To Prune #1
5:33 How To Prune A Tree: Tree Pruning Tips
6:33 Reason To Prune #2
9:51 These Huge Harvests Are Proof!
11:08 Reason To Prune #3
13:48 Pruning Potted Trees
16:19 Adventures With Dale
I am in zone 8a. Can I prune my stone fruit now in January?
Yeah i have to get back in yard again when you do gardening you don`t think of nothing but the your garden .
When do your container citrus typically flower? My kumquat flowered in September and October. But by the end of November all those flowers had fallen off without any fruit set. I didn’t know if I did something wrong or not. September I added a fertilizer stake. I thought maybe that was the problem.
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Hey great video as always! I have a couple apple trees 3-5 years old. I am not sure when it happened but they have settled in there planting holes, the graft is now in contact with the soil and there are several serious roots from above the graft going down into the soil. Any suggestions on how to fix this? Should I just leave it alone or try to dig up the tree trim of all the roots above the graft and replant it higher in the ground?
Im in the PNW on new to me 3 acres. Its January and just n o w freezing at night. I fear trimming now due to damage to the young fruit trees at the cuts i planted last year. My question…. should i suck up my fear or wait till this freezing weather is over?
Also your so correct as i trimed an old neglected Magnolia agressively last year and it rewarded us with an amazing blooming show! I also am planting 10 young Dogwood and Japanese Maples any advice? Thank you so much for sharing your valuable knowledge!!
Most people don't understand that trees are just like us and are adapted and use to being mauled to death by other humans ,wind, wildlife like bear, birds, moose, deer, squirrel elk…..you name it. They'll love you more and be healthier if you act like a wild animal and attack them just as exercise adversity and stress make you more resilient. You cannot baby beings that have millions of years of survival adaptations.
Thank you for this information. I have about 11 trees in pots that are about 3 years old. I’ve always hesitated on heavily pruning but now I know I need to be a bit more aggressive. I also have in-ground a meyer lemon and a tangerine tree. Both were planted by my grandparents between 15-20 years ago. I noticed this year the Meyer lemon tree, although it actually had a ton of fruit on it but small, the tree was looking a little sad. So it definitely needs some TLC this year. My problem with the pruning of the citrus is knowing exactly when to do it. It always feels like there’s buds growing by the time I’m finished with harvesting. So then I don’t prune because I don’t want to cut off the buds.😢 When is the right time to prune citrus. I’m in Central California. Any tips from anyone who knows would be much appreciated.
This is probably educational but I stopped watching early on — too much why. How about doing two videos on each topic : one that educates and one that just shows the pruning? The pruning get bogged down in all that explanation.
Interesting, what you said about lack of competition at the 9min mark contradicts the idea of food forest, and Miyawaki method planting, where competition is the key to vigorous growth and symbiotic soil fungal networks…
Should I prune a young citrus tree that hasn’t fruited yet
I bought a house a few years ago with several gardens and a few fruit trees. I am disabled and had to let the gardens go because I couldn't care for them. I never even thought about pruning the trees. I'm afraid I am losing the huge black cherry tree that I adore. It definitely outgrew itself. I have a fig tree that has never produced, but grew around the edge of my porch roof. My peach tree, very small, just sort of petered out.
I can't raise my arms for long so I can't use pruning sheers and I no longer have strength to squeeze them enough to cut. Would a light mini chainsaw work? I can't afford to hire someone.
Also, what time of year should this be done? I am in New Mexico in the desert, and normally it is about 60F during the day, but still freezes at night, but this year has been much colder.
Thank you for any advice.
I have a fig, pomegranate and Meyer lemon in pots. I’ve read that I should lift the tree out of the pot and loosen up the root ball and add dirt. My question is should i lift the root ball first then trim the tree or trim it first then thin out the root ball? Thank you love the videos.
Hi i have 30 orange trees 18 year old never prune except for dead and dye wood.
I would like to see you actually prune fruit trees. I bought apples in the supermarket. They were all sprouting seeds in the apples. I was so amazed I planted them and then planted every seeded fruit I bought. They are 3 yrs, the oldest so I need to know how to prune.
Blessings,
Bonny
New trees planted them January 2004. Should we prune now?
I'm in WA. Should I prune my raspberries now?
Yet again, another incredibly useful video! Looking forward to some better weather days to get out for some more pruning, and I can’t wait for Spring to get some new trees in-ground!
I wish I had pruned my flat peach tree sooner, because I ended up snapping it in half like a wishbone because it became too oversized with the wrong shape
Is it better to wait until later in Winter to prune? When the forecast is to be warmer, colder, or same in the next few days? Or is anytime before budding good?