Lovely pruning job!

[Joe Loggs]

i wouldnt say this is a bad job the ***** arent to big and he has left a fair amount of growth with fruit at the tips, instead of people leaving bad feed back i think people need to explain what they would have done to this tree to help other people in the trade.

[Tony Croft aka hamadryad]

i wouldnt say this is a bad job the ***** arent to big and he has left a fair amount of growth with fruit at the tips, instead of people leaving bad feed back i think people need to explain what they would have done to this tree to help other people in the trade.

 

[agg221]

i wouldnt say this is a bad job the ***** arent to big and he has left a fair amount of growth with fruit at the tips, instead of people leaving bad feed back i think people need to explain what they would have done to this tree to help other people in the trade.

 

I can see exactly what I would have done to it, based on the angle shown in the one photo - might be different if viewed from more angles. The challenge is describing it!

 

Apples will sprout epicormic growth all over the place, so this is going to turn into a forest and although the leaf cover is quite light following the pruning, it will be very dense (too dense) next year. My approach would be to try to thin rather than reduce in the first instance. The thinning would be to create an open centre, with layers of branches about a metre above one another. On the left hand side of the image you can see a branch which loops out from the upper break of the crown and dips downwards - if that overlays the other one I would take it out. In the centre of the image is a break of about 5branches - at least two of these would go - the more upright and internal ones. I think the upper centre break probably has too many as well - but would want to make my selection based on walking round it.

 

I have a set of images I took earlier this year on a large apple that I'll try and upload for comparison.

 

Alec

[skyhuck]

If the customer was happy and the cheque cleared the jobs a goodun.

[Tony Croft aka hamadryad]

If the customer was happy and the cheque cleared the jobs a goodun.

 

and if we wish to remain stunted as far as arboricultural knowledge goes, then that is as you say, job done.

[skyhuck]

and if we wish to remain stunted as far as arboricultural knowledge goes, then that is as you say, job done.

 

[Joe Loggs]

thanks alec

[samthescam]

Right some people have taken this the wrong way. I didn't do that to the tree... I could only take one photo on the iphone but I can promise you it looks a lot lot worst in real life. Customer has just brought the house and the last owners did this to 3 of the trees before moving out...

 

I think the crowning moment was when I noticed the saw left in the tree! All the cuts are tjust random, hasn't even cut it to growth points. And it's in a conservation area and clearly has been cowboyed!

[skyhuck]

Right some people have taken this the wrong way. I didn't do that to the tree... I could only take one photo on the iphone but I can promise you it looks a lot lot worst in real life. Customer has just brought the house and the last owners did this to 3 of the trees before moving out...

 

I think the crowning moment was when I noticed the saw left in the tree! All the cuts are tjust random, hasn't even cut it to growth points. And it's in a conservation area and clearly has been cowboyed!

 

 

Wonder how that happened??

 

Really proud of this. Ignore the saw left in the tree, I forgot about it!

 

[RobArb]

Wonder how that happened??

 

:lol:

 

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