Understand the importance of summer pruning as well as why and how to summer prune your peach trees and other stone fruit.
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When it comes to summer pruning peach trees and other stone fruit there are 2 very important things to keep in mind BEFORE snipping away. These are:
1. Young trees: here we prune for structural improvements and to increase airflow + light penetration
2. Mature trees: here you want to reduce the overall height of the tree to keep it manageable and also to reduce the number of branches to reduce fruiting branches to increase fruit size and quality
Useful videos + videos mentioned in this video:
Winter pruning peach + nectarine trees in urban gardens & food forests - https://youtu.be/WVmg4oTD8ec
Identifying and removing suckers, or sucker growth, on fruit trees - https://youtu.be/Ah39KDBku38
In this video we focus on a young peach tree that got its first hard prune last winter. In subsequent seasons we want to continue to build on the structure we have created and to strengthen up the branches to be able to hold fruit in the future.
The key things we want to summer prune to achieve are:
1. Remove all suckers growing from the base of the tree or the roots on the ground
2. Remove all new sprouts or fresh growth coming off the main stem/trunk of the tree
3. Remove all branches that are too close to the base of the branch
4. Remove all inward facing branches
5. Remove all crossing or rubbing branches
6. Remove any dead, diseased or damaged branches
There are different techniques to apply to mature trees, but with young trees summer pruning helps to strengthen the branching structure we are creating. From there on out, we start to focus on the trees height and size along with increasing its fruit production.
Video chapters:
00:00 - Introduction
00:38 - Overview of summer pruning
01:31 - WHY do you need to summer prune your trees?
04:15 - HOW do you summer prune fruit trees?
13:47 - Summer pruning recap
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