Pruning

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Pruning
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Purpose

• Maintenance Pruning
• Enhance ornamental value
• Heading back
• Removing some basal shoots
• For reconditioning
• Removing old, diseased wood
• Thin sucker growth

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Purpose - Maintenance

• For Plant Health
• Remove dead and diseased branches spindly growth
• Safety
• Low branches weak or broken branches branches
  near wires
• Ornamental Value
• Enhance multi-stemmed shrubs that flower on young
  wood
• Develop strong, balanced canopy
• Control Size
• Produce Unusual forms

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Hedges
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Fruit vs. Growth

• Heavy reconditioning
• rapid growth following year
• Remove upright suckers
• Scaffold branches
• Central leader
• Modified leader
• Open form

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Pruning
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Tools
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Pome Fruiting Habit

• 3 year pattern developing spurs
• Thicker stems of same age group produce the most
  fruit
• Spurs produce fruit one year and are vegetative
  one year

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Taking Off Branches
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Improper pruning cut (no cut on bottom of branch)
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Proper cut
Apple after pruning
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Climbing roses
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Grapes - Kniffin system

• 2nd winter
• Cut trunk above wire
• Remove side shoots leaving 4 with 2 buds nearest
  wires

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• 3rd winter
• Cut all but six shoots leave 10 buds on upper
  lower attach to wire
• Cut back remaining 4 to 2 buds each
• Following winters
• Cut off canes that fruited in prior season (red)
• Leave 1 cane (10 buds) 1 spur (2 buds) on each
  of 4 spurs (black).

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