Jan 31, 2022
Formative Pruning, Central Leader Form - How to Prune Young Fruit Trees in the First Three Years
Formative Pruning, Central Leader Form – How to Prune Young Fruit Trees in the First Three Years
Fruit trees are trained into particular shapes to make them more productive, easier to manage and better able to support heavy crop loads. Formative pruning (also referred to as framework pruning) is carried out in the first three years of planting a young tree to create or ‘form’ the shape, and establish a framework of main branches. When a young tree is first purchased, it may already have…
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