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Gene from mich

04-03-2002 18:50:24




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I have generaly trimmed our 2 apples by taking off the suckwer branches or sprouts and dead stuff . what is the proper way to trim for shaping the trees ? thanks.




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Tyler(WA)

04-04-2002 08:45:17




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 Re: apple tree trimming in reply to Gene from mich, 04-03-2002 18:50:24  
Lots of good books out there and you need to get one. For apple trees the general rule is to have three main branches off the trunk and cut off all secondary branches that grow in toward the center or cross another branch.

The tree will try to produce more fruit than the trunk can grow to full size. That's why pruning is so important.

Other fruit trees are pruned differently so don't prune your pear or peach trees by this rule.

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VaTom

04-04-2002 08:02:16




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 Re: apple tree trimming in reply to Gene from mich, 04-03-2002 18:50:24  
My understanding is that the shape should reflect how you want to do the picking, and provide room for the fruit to grow without damage. I once spent a winter tying branches to wires to create apple trees no more than 18" deep (espalier) in a large orchard. This was to facilitate picking, worked like a dream. Usually only attempted for esthetic reasons but these trees were picked, without ladders, from a moving trailer holding two rows of pickers and a conveyor to move the fruit. Talk about efficient! No third world labor available there. If you're shaking the tree with a tractor to get the apples down, all you need is room for the fruit. If you're using ladders, make room to get in there.

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Dusty

04-04-2002 06:03:09




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 Re: apple tree trimming in reply to Gene from mich, 04-03-2002 18:50:24  
Go to your county MSU Extension office, they should have a VCR tape on triming apple trees that you can borrow.
If I remember right you trim anything that crosses and any the goes stright up.

Good Luck,
Dusty



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Mark/Ks

04-04-2002 04:43:55




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 Re: apple tree trimming in reply to Gene from mich, 04-03-2002 18:50:24  
I've been told the best time is durring winter, or when the sap is down in the trunk, not on the limbs.. Also, I've been told that prune so that a bird can fly through it with out touching any limb. (thin it out a lot)



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Bruce Paul

04-05-2002 21:09:59




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 Re: Re: apple tree trimming in reply to Mark/Ks, 04-04-2002 04:43:55  
A buddy of mine's family owned an apple orchard while he was growing up. I helped him prune fruit trees for people in town one winter. Mostly just 1 or 2 trees that hadn't been pruned for years in somebody's back yard. The first job I helped him with he said "If we leave here and this lady isn't complaining that we butchered her tree, we didn't cut enough out"!



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