Grafting your fruit trees in the spring and leaving your grafts unattended is not a good idea. Summer pruning of the excess growth and thinning of bad placed branches is a more efficient use of your rootstock resources. In this video, I show how to prune your grafts in the summer, using basic pruning techniques. Managing late grafts, so they have a chance to grow when competing with the more developed ones, is also covered.
Table of contents
00:00 – Intro
1. Reasons to summer prune a grafted tree – 0:55
2. Pruning grafts – Basic Principles – 2:20
2a. Remove lower branches – 2:44
2b. Remove crossing branches – 3:04
2c. Thinning branches – 3:32
2d. Heading branches– 5:27
2e. Pruning results – 6:04
3. Managing vigor in different grafts – 6:18
4. Managing grafts done at a later date – 7:23
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