best time to prune a cherry plum

[Steve Bullman]

anyone?

[chestnut]

cherries, plums and other stone fruits are best pruned in late summer (deemed to be the best time to avoid silverleaf infection)

 

as we haven't had much of a summer - and as i specialise in fruit tree pruning - i finished cherries about 3 weeks ago - started plums last week - and i'll do them for a few weeks still

 

i just make sure that every cut is clean and painted - hope that helps

[Steve Bullman]

what you painting them with????

[chestnut]

wound-seal paint (arbrex) just to stop infection

[Dagmar]

wound-seal paint (arbrex) just to stop infection

 

Well done that man!!!!!

[David oakman]

you could also try stockholm tar which is used on horses hooves to stop fungle infections that is what i use:001_smile:

[Amelanchier]

wound-seal paint (arbrex) just to stop infection

 

Well done that man!!!!!

 

You crazy fruit people...

 

Worth noting for the record that painting wounds is not considered best practice when pruning amenity trees, except when attempting to protect against specific pathogens (e.g., oak wilt and silverleaf as mentioned above!)

[Mr Ed]

You crazy fruit people...

 

Worth noting for the record that painting wounds is not considered best practice when pruning amenity trees,

 

Maybe, but the customers love it

 

I remember as a kid all Dads little pots of wound paint tar... It used to be the greenhorns job to paint the big wounds, good training for them.

[Bundle 2]

Currently reading The Arboriculturalists Companion... (try saying that after a beer )

NDG James says in the dormant period...he refers to the time of no leaf for deciduous!!

There are exceptions and with climate shifts....?

The only other comment he makes is about bleeding.......

And yeah...he does write about bracing, propping WHU....all pretty basic.

Sorry to say but I find this publication, updated in 1990 after 1edition 1972 just a wee bit out of date now.

Good basic info but the devil is in the detail and so much of it just doesnt cut it anymore...( ? )

[Jack-Arb aka Tiago Sinclair-Julio.]

Hi guys,

 

About the clients loving the painted prunning wounds, reminded me of a similar thing I came across in Portugal.

 

I saw these guys prunning (pollarding) these olive trees, and in some finished trees, but not in all they had tied these plastic sheets around some of the shoots left has growth points. Completly at random some trees with 3 or 4 of these plastic things or only one. I had to ask what was that about, they said - its to protect the buds from any frost during the night. So I said - do you have to do them all? They just nodded and the feelling I got was that who ever was paying for the work would surelly appreciate seeing the extent they'd gone to protected he's trees. And it even looks quite professional one could argue I think!

 

But whether it really makes a difference, I dont think so...

 

 

Jack