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23 Comments
First!!! Love your posts.
love your video
I'm looking for tips on planting and protecting fruit trees from groundhogs. One lives next to my property in an old cow field that is not my land so I can't do much about it. I've tried trapping it on my land this last year but no luck.
I am getting 2 pear and 2 peach trees in March and want to make sure they get to grow. Any tips or suggestions? Thanks mate.
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Great video! Thanks
Just as important as pruning is training the branches to grow out at a 45 degree angle and not straight up. You will get more fruit on the branches that grow out and you will get fewer water sprouts. It is hard to teach pruning cuts with trees as young as yours are. Look up Stephan Sobkowiak for how to prune fruit trees for the greatest harvest. He's been doing it for decades. Also, peach trees are generally grown without a central leader and more of a bowl shape – very different from apples and pears.
Just bought a property in Washtenaw with some OLD apple trees on it, probably like 100 years, who knows. I am trying to figure out how to properly trim them to help them continue to thrive and produce before they wake up in spring so this couldn't come at a better time 🙂
Thank you, great video 👍👋
Thank you! I have 25-30 foot apple trees 😞how to prune those? Help!
I didn't know about a jump cut. Totally makes sense. Thanks for that one Luke!
Very helpful!
We have an old apple tree and pear tree on our property which were never pruned prior to us moving here. The pear tree was forty feet tall. The second year we had fire blight wipe out the trees. I cut the pear tree down to 6 feet, and was actually planning to tear it out. Well, it survived and now has a boat load of suckers. I am not sure how to go about pruning this tree! The apple tree is so crazy looking, but I have managed to get it under control.
Awesome tips, Luke. Only thing I would add is emphasis on bud direction. When choosing a point to prune pay attention to the first bud direction since that is the direction the new branch will grow in. Beware selecting a location that would cause a branch to grow toward the center of the tree or cross/rub against another branch you want to keep.
So helpful! Now I need to figure out how much to take off my pear & 2 peach trees.
Yes to part two! Appreciate you.
I've been growing apples for a long time, I would never use this advice.
And when cutting those heading cuts you may want to leave the bud below of the branch as the new leading bud to encourage that umbrella shape tree grow, so it rather grows side way than up.
Superb info! Grateful for your in depth explanation, Luke. Perfect timing because I need to prune my trees and bushes this week! You’re in snow while I’m in sunny Southern California, where we don’t have a hard frost or cold winter. That’s why my pruning seems to always be a little late.
Appreciate your tutorial Luke.
Yes please to part 2! I get really confused on when to cut what types of fruit trees and understanding what trees grow on new and old growth etc.
I have some pears that I was curious as to how a 6ft straight stick would become a tree, so thank you so much for this video.
Giant rabbit ate my 2 year old apples…sad
Could you sell that book you showed pages of? On your site or as Amazon affiliate.
Can I do an air layer as part of my pruning?