A Practical "Visual Guide" for March Pruning of Young High Density Plantings
A Practical "Visual Guide" for March Pruning of Young and Semi-Young High Density Apple Plantings
Mario Miranda Sazo
The document is a practical and colorful visual guide that shows some important pruning cuts to better grow and train the "money makers" Gala, Honeycrisp, and Fuji trees. The pruning cut decisions are easy to follow and their objectives are simple: (1) help the tree to grow as quickly as possible to the top of the wire and (2) select planar, horizontal, more open one-year old shoots to secure the production of fine fruiting units. In the next 15-20 days, you (and your pruning crews) will be influencing a lot the future productivity of new apple plantings. If you do a good job, you will positively control the distribution and utilization of sunlight, the quality of foliage, the shape and condition of the canopy, and more importantly, the mass and ratio of structural wood and fruiting wood. Good luck this coming season!, and always try to prune smarter not harder!
A Visual Guide for Pruning of Young and Semi-Young High Density Apple Plantings (pdf; 23273KB)
- A practical and colorful visual guide that shows some important pruning cuts
Spanish Translated Version (pdf; 19551KB)
- Guia visual de poda para arboles de manzanos nuevos y semi-adultos en alta densidad
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