If an apple tree grows on a land plot or near your home, then you just have to care for her if you want to get delicious, juicy and large fruits and beautiful bloom in the spring. Let's talk today about how to collect a rich harvest of apples and learn how to trim it yourself correctly.
Trimming time
Garders with experience know that the best time to form the crown of any fruit tree is spring. Despite this, a simple rule, the pruning process itself is not so simple, so in order to trim the apple tree on all canons you need to know all the nuances and the rules of this process.
It should be understood that if the pruning is wrong, it can adversely affect the health of the tree - the branches may be too heavy, the fruits may not be crown, you can damage the crown, etc.
Proper cropping apple trees contributes:
- Proper formation of the crown
- Enlarge the yield
- Improving the appearance of a tree, etc.
The main rules trimming:
- The optimal option to start the process of trimming the apple should be at the time the kidneys will appear on the tree.
- Crop the branches of the apple tree are necessary to a sharp garden secateur - it concerns too weak and very young branches.
- A sharp saw is better to cut old shoots. Remember that the blades of garden tools should not be rust - this is a mandatory rule.
Tree trimming process
So, I would like to begin with the consideration of the first trimming. It is necessary to conduct it without fail after you make a landing in the ground.
The first time to trim the apple tree after it will be placed in the ground. This procedure is not mandatory, but advisory. This pruning contributes to the uniform distribution of all necessary substances in all branches and roots:
- shorten branches on the sides of the trunk will need to be 2/3 of their total length
- central branches are cut to size 85 cm
It is also necessary to remember that all branches that stick out from the main trunk and are by-ways, must also be cut, because most often they simply cannot cope with the severity of apples. If you cut a branch - this is the norm, but if it breaks - this is a "psychological" trauma for the tree, which it is difficult for him to move.
Among other things, every spring, regardless of the age of an apple tree, is obligatory, it is necessary to cut all dry, missing, sore branches, whatever magnitude they were. In the event that the gardener noticed that the time of the blown of the kidneys came, and even on some of the twists, the kidney did not even, but at the same time, the bark became much darker, without thinking, get rid of this branch.
The gardener must remember that the future state of the branch depends on the correct cut, so that it is necessary to cut branches in such a way that the cut is obtained in just a couple of centimeters above the kidney, and not leave big hemp.
Proper trimming in the spring
A few years later, Crohn will be fully formed on the tree, which means that during this period it will be necessary to pay the time and its correct care and formation:
- In order not to reduce the level of fruiting, it is necessary to cut the branches on the crown quite a bit, but it cannot be assumed here that the trunk for some reason is reassembled is an important rule that each gardener should perform.
- Getting rid of also worth the branches that are located inside the crown.
- The removal of the branches, which, in their location, crossed out with fruiting branches and shoots.
Trimming for wood is quite complex processes. If we talk about the perception of the tree itself, because it is a kind of operation for an apple tree, so that for the operational restoration of the tree after this procedure immediately needs to be disinfected all sections (even if it is minimal and barely noticeable).
To do this, are often used:
- oil paint
- special purpose composition (vigorous couples together with lime)
Pruning the old apple trees. Slightly different from trimming "Young":
- It is necessary to begin to note that the old tree is cut off, not as often as young.
- The formation of the crown is adjustable and adjusted once every two years, not more often. Despite this, the gardener should take place every year to ensure that branches do not appear on the apple tree, which would be blocked by the light of the fruiting parts of the trunk. It turns out as soon as the branch is noticed that grows inside the crowns - immediately get rid of it.
- In the event that an apple tree for more than 15 years and every subsequent year she began to give less harvest, then the gardener is simply obliged to go to rejuvenation. It should be noted that in that spring, when you spend the process of rejuvenation, it is not necessary to wait for a large harvest, because the results of trimming this year will be visible in the following. Remember that the process of rejuvenation of completely old trees is held 3-4 years in a row, so consider this when planning spring garden work.
It is quite easy to care for the apple trees, because these trees do not belong to the whimsical, but at the same time, each spring, the gardener is obliged to clean the branches and try to form a crown of wood. It is impossible to leave an apple tree in the spring, if you want her to be good and pleased you with a rich harvest.
You should not carry out when the apple tree has already started blooming, you can only harm the tree and significantly reduce its fruiting, and therefore the level of yield.
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