The basic method of pruning fruit trees How to prune fruit trees

1, pruning fruit trees should use professional pruning scissors, choose to prune in sunny weather, to reduce the damage to the fruit tree, pruning branches, shortening branches, is the dwarfing of the fruit tree, easy to pick, but also able to make the nutrients are very concentrated, to promote the results, increase the yield.

2, thinning, thinning some too dense, weak, diseased branches, is the nutrients can be concentrated in the fruit of the branches.

3, topping, a lot of new branches are sprouting in the spring, some branches will appear the phenomenon of futile growth, this time we have to top, make it dwarf, promote side bud differentiation, increase the fruit rate.

4, for centering, wipe buds, in the new branch above the emergence of many new shoots, sprouting when we want to keep 2 ~ 3 new shoots, the other are to be erased, with this method to increase the rate of hanging fruit.

5, for twisting, usually in the new growth of the branch, by twisting the new growth of the branch 90 degrees to 180 degrees or bending, to promote its budding, accelerate the results.