Fruit tree pictures

[Will Hinchliffe]

Here are some fruit trees Matt and I pruned on Tuesday. A bit late really but the pruning is carried out every year so the amount coming off is minimal.

 

I try to remove anything facing in towards the center, anything growing vertically, anything rubbing and anything with canker. I also like to flush cut water shoots to stop them shooting again from the dormant buds in the branch collar.

 

New growth is brought back to outward facing buds. Usually about the 2nd or 3rd bud.

 

These trees have had heavier restoration works in the past and my boss has been pruning them for years, they are lovely trees to work, very rewarding.

 

Please post other fruit tree pictures here:001_smile:

[David Humphries]

Nice work Will,

 

imagine it's fine sense of sustainable management being involved with the regular pruning of friuters & the like.

 

Wouldn't mind doing something like that a little later on.

Preferably my own Orchard.

 

 

 

Interesting picture fromat, how did you do that?

 

A little bigger would be good for us with aging tired eyes

 

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[nepia]

Re your flush cutting water shoots... There was discussion last year about that and I think it was Arob on here, who certainly seems to know what he's talking about, suggested pulling them off manually to better prevent regrowth. Would work only on first year growth of course but was wondering if you did it or had any experience of its effectiveness.

Thanks,

 

Jon

[Danavan]

Re your flush cutting water shoots... There was discussion last year about that and I think it was Arob on here, who certainly seems to know what he's talking about, suggested pulling them off manually to better prevent regrowth. Would work only on first year growth of course but was wondering if you did it or had any experience of its effectiveness.

Thanks,

 

Jon

 

My 4 yr old son has done pleanty of ripping off water shoots on our fruit trees so far this year in order to gain futher access to otherwise inaccesseble areas up the trees..

 

Will let you know the outcome latter this year:lol:

 

Sounds like a method worth employing if it works as I for one am fed up of pruning them out:sneaky2:

 

Be nice if it worked on lime too:laugh1:

[Will Hinchliffe]

The pictures just magicly arranged themselves like that, Its just because they are small. The photos are from my phone which is why they are tiny.

 

I have never ripped off water shoots but I have tried a pruning knife and that is quite quick. In the past pruning knifes would have been used to do the majority of the pruning.

 

I think I will stick to seccys

 

If you remove the branch collars on lime epicormic it is supposed to stop it coming back. I would imagine this works best if its done every year from an early age.

[nepia]

My 4 yr old son has done pleanty of ripping off water shoots on our fruit trees so far this year in order to gain futher access to otherwise inaccesseble areas up the trees..

 

 

The youngest Arbtalker...? Must be expensive constantly replacing his harness as he grows out of each.

[Danavan]

My 4 yr old son has done pleanty of ripping off water shoots on our fruit trees so far this year in order to gain futher access to otherwise inaccesseble areas up the trees..

 

 

The youngest Arbtalker...? Must be expensive constantly replacing his harness as he grows out of each.

 

He is no stanger to danger at the mo. He going it all natural monkey style:biggrin:

 

I will introduce the harness at a later date when I get scared of watching him scale new hights:blushing:

 

It will be no time befor his gramma, spelling ect over take mine too:biggrin:

[slack ma girdle]

Water shoots do have there uses for providing new structure to older trees. To reduce the amount of water shoots either split the tree into 1/4's and prune one quarter every year. Or split the pruning to winter and summer time. Large branches in winter and smaller branches in summer, but you do need to be aware of the possible problems with fire blight and other nasties with summer pruning.

At the end of the day the harder you prune your fruit trees the more water shoots the tree will produce in return.