The best time to prune your fruit trees is at the beginning of the vegetation, at bud break stage.įarmers are often scared of pruning, they often think they will prune too much or too little, but pruning is not the brain surgery. For all other fruit tree forms and bushes, winter pruning is crucial. It manages growth only on trees with restricted forms such as cordons, espaliers, fans and pyramids.

Summer pruning allows sunlight to ripen the fruit and ensures good cropping the following year. It helps with the growth and development of younger plants thus creating a structure that will maximize vigor and productivity, minimize insect and disease problems, and help maintain strong canopy that will produce large and quality fruits, for many years.There are two types of pruning- winter and summer or pruning in the green.

Pruning is crucial for the management of plant’s life and health. The key to keeping fruit trees attractive and productive is annual pruning. Within a few years of planting fruit trees, most farmers find themselves with scraggly overgrown bushes and trees, rather than the Garden of Eden they had envisioned.

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