How to prune Plum trees

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Video on how we prune our plum trees to reduce height and width and to produce maximum good size fruits. We normally prune during Winter. Occasionally we do Summer pruning to contain heights.

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  • @Kiwi403
    @Kiwi4035 жыл бұрын

    definitely the best vid I've seen on pruning a plum tree. Thanks!

  • @maggiewilliams4011
    @maggiewilliams40115 жыл бұрын

    Finally, info and video that I can really use! So helpful. Thank you!

  • @shelleydansereau6481
    @shelleydansereau64814 жыл бұрын

    Thank you. Just what I needed to figure out how much to take my plum trees back.

  • @blaqfish
    @blaqfish5 жыл бұрын

    Best demonstration of pruning I've seen. Taught me a lot. Thank you Sir!

  • @pezzapan
    @pezzapan7 жыл бұрын

    Thanks, with the help of your video I pruned my plum tree :)

  • @MYPERMACULTUREGARDEN
    @MYPERMACULTUREGARDEN4 жыл бұрын

    Thank you so much for this video ! I was afraid that my trees had growth already and I would kill it !!! Tomorrow , I will go out and prune them all !

  • @TheBlackblackblack
    @TheBlackblackblack7 жыл бұрын

    I very much enjoy your videos! Thank you!

  • @rjudge2426
    @rjudge24264 жыл бұрын

    Best video. Tells you almost everything about pruning

  • @donamatto9785
    @donamatto97858 жыл бұрын

    Thank you. Video was well done and informative. Best one I've found on youtube !

  • @khthhonl

    @khthhonl

    8 жыл бұрын

    +Don Amatto Glad you likr it and thanks for watching.

  • @billrobbins5874

    @billrobbins5874

    3 жыл бұрын

    Want to hone plum trimming skills.

  • @patcanfield3316
    @patcanfield33169 жыл бұрын

    You sure helped me sir. I will be pruning as soon as I see flowers! Thanks so much!!!

  • @khthhonl

    @khthhonl

    9 жыл бұрын

    You are welcome and thanks for watching.

  • @Christi840
    @Christi8403 жыл бұрын

    Amazing video ! Thank you ! 🌳🌳🌳🌳🌳

  • @beowolf19751
    @beowolf197513 жыл бұрын

    Excellent informative video!

  • @davidcawrowl3865
    @davidcawrowl3865 Жыл бұрын

    Clear, concise, informative.

  • @uhu69
    @uhu698 жыл бұрын

    Merci, grazie and danke! Great video!

  • @oarfrost
    @oarfrost6 жыл бұрын

    Many thanks. Very clear and helpful

  • @esthermcnaughton
    @esthermcnaughton9 жыл бұрын

    Great information thank you! I am now confident to have a try!

  • @khthhonl

    @khthhonl

    9 жыл бұрын

    Great! Thanks for watching.

  • @stephengribble5997
    @stephengribble59972 жыл бұрын

    Super helpful video. Thank you

  • @flowerchild1640
    @flowerchild16408 жыл бұрын

    Thank you this was very helpful

  • @TheGreyGardener1990
    @TheGreyGardener1990 Жыл бұрын

    Good video thank you

  • @junglejarred6366
    @junglejarred63664 жыл бұрын

    Thank you!

  • @paul-ne1bh
    @paul-ne1bh6 жыл бұрын

    when u first planted your plum tree did you cut the crown back to keep it small good video many thanks paul england

  • @ridgwalker
    @ridgwalker9 жыл бұрын

    just what i needed good example many thanks

  • @ronaldus1011
    @ronaldus101110 жыл бұрын

    Very useful demonstration plus your answers to queries too. Covered the things that I needed advice on . . .

  • @khthhonl

    @khthhonl

    10 жыл бұрын

    Glad it is of benefit to you and thanks for watching.

  • @Towerwatson525
    @Towerwatson5257 жыл бұрын

    Nice informative video. Is it not the case that plums should be pruned in late summer? if you do so in early spring and a late frost strikes you risk silver leaf disease.They dont need the kind of work as apple, basically keep the middle clear to allow sun wind through teh tree and cut off overlapping branches and you should have a successful tree.

  • @tanamankebun
    @tanamankebun2 жыл бұрын

    I wish my plum tree can have many flowers as yours

  • @powistonpiedpythons9286
    @powistonpiedpythons92865 жыл бұрын

    At last! Thank you.

  • @bajoma123
    @bajoma12310 жыл бұрын

    Great video, thank you.

  • @khthhonl

    @khthhonl

    10 жыл бұрын

    You are welcome,glad you like it.

  • @user-vd2ry6wx7h
    @user-vd2ry6wx7h2 ай бұрын

    Definitely plum incredible

  • @Daniel-nf8pp
    @Daniel-nf8pp5 жыл бұрын

    Thank you. ✌

  • @lclement444
    @lclement4449 жыл бұрын

    Thanks for actually showing the work being done. Too many videos . . .they just talk.

  • @leynagh

    @leynagh

    4 жыл бұрын

    So true, and talk as if to someone who knows what they're talking about !! . . If we did , we wouldn't be watching videos to learn. Talk as if you're talking to someone who has absolutely no idea at all and you'll please more people than you'll offend. Clearly explaining why you were doing what you were doing made this an informative video, thanks.

  • @myview1875
    @myview18756 жыл бұрын

    Thankyou.

  • @mikesavage9220
    @mikesavage92204 жыл бұрын

    Great

  • @lisadiamond5298
    @lisadiamond52988 жыл бұрын

    Love the video thanks. But I live in New England and I was told that you should not trim in winter. In this zone, should I wait till spring when the flowers come? Thanks!

  • @yarnybart5911

    @yarnybart5911

    Жыл бұрын

    The tree is covered in flowers so its spring not winter

  • @spandir
    @spandir10 жыл бұрын

    excellent video. One question does fruit comes on new last year wood ( like grapes, and we have to prune each other any wood that is more than 1 yr old) ? or it comes on much older (2-3 yrs) wood and they will be our permanent fruit branches?

  • @khthhonl

    @khthhonl

    10 жыл бұрын

    Hi Sandeep Pandir, they are not like grapes. Plum produces fruiting buds as you mentioned, from older woods and they will be fruiting for years on that. Occasionally that branch do die off, in which case cut if off and train another to replace. Thanks for watching.

  • @raychan7423
    @raychan74236 жыл бұрын

    I brought a Waneta Plum tree in last Summer, I planted in my backyard, it had flowers(same as your)at the spring break and no longer all gone, no leave ,no flower just only branches (brown colour), it was look like stop growing. I don’t know what happened? Can you tell me why? And tell me what can I do? Thank you very much!

  • @MindieGilliland
    @MindieGilliland8 жыл бұрын

    We recently moved into a home that already had a plum tree and it is huge! I cannot reach some of the branches with my ladder. By the size of some of the branches I would guess it is at least 3 maybe upward of 5 years old (max 8 years because that is the age of the home). I would like to prune it so that I can reach all the branches and fruit. Even the base of the tree seems tall. Should I wait to prune it until most of the current fruit is gone later in the summer or sooner than that or later than that? OR should I hire a professional tree trimmer for the first time around and then maintain it on my own? Thanks!

  • @mikebetts2046

    @mikebetts2046

    8 жыл бұрын

    If you prune a tree while it still has green leaves on it, you will take some energy out of the tree. If the tree is too large and vigorous, this might not be a bad thing. I do this with some of my trees that have gotten out of control. If you prune when the tree is dormant, it will come back the following season with vigorous growth, because the energy that was made the previous season is now stored in the trunk and roots. I have seen people cut a peach tree right down to a stump about 3 feet high in the winter. It then comes back next season with a flush of new sprouts that can then be trained to the proper shape, but I don't recommend something so drastic if you are new to fruit trees. You might start to get the hang of things by taking out some of the major branches if they are making it difficult to get into the center of the tree. You could cut one of these branches back quite a bit and then watch the next spring to see if and how new shoots grow from it. Sending a photo of the tree (with someone standing near it for height reference) might help. But keep in mind, I am no expert. I have about 23 trees in my orchard but I am still learning.

  • @barbarastepien-foad4519

    @barbarastepien-foad4519

    5 жыл бұрын

    @@mikebetts2046 hi e are new to all this, have inherited a small orchard...only to find that the damsons all have Plum Pocket fungal disease...they no longer produce Bordeaux mixture ( EU regulations in the UK) would you know what we can do?The fruits are disfigured, brown and have no stone in them....

  • @mikebetts2046

    @mikebetts2046

    5 жыл бұрын

    @@barbarastepien-foad4519 , I am no expert on this but if you can get the components of Bordeaux mixture, then you can make it on your own (copper sulphate and slaked lime). Both of these should be common items for orchards. In my orchard, I use copper in the spring (just before leaves break out) and then use a mix of Captan and miclobutanil for most of my fungus control. This works well for me. Sulfur can also be thrown into the orchard once in a while. But I do not have my compatibility chart with me at the moment so I do not remember what sulfur is compatible with. I know the captan and myclobutanil go well together. There are various type of copper solutions available (copper sulfate, copper octanoate, etc). I'm not a chemist so I cannot comment on the relative value of the various copper solutions. I think they all do about the same thing, which is to disrupt the ability of the fungus to reproduce. They do not necessarily kill existing fungus. But copper can burn leaves, which is why I use it before the leaves are fully out.

  • @BionicRasta
    @BionicRasta4 жыл бұрын

    I thought you should only prune plum trees in winter as it increases the chance of it getting a disease such as silver leaf? since the tree is dormant & cannot heal the wound.

  • @jakq71
    @jakq7110 жыл бұрын

    Hello! Great video, but can you show how to prune plum for 1 year and 2 years old trees? Thank you.

  • @khthhonl

    @khthhonl

    10 жыл бұрын

    Hi Jakq71, pruning 1 and 2 year old trees is basically pruning to the shape that you would like the tree to be in the future and prune to an outward growing bud. Thanks for dropping by.

  • @briant3403
    @briant34036 жыл бұрын

    i can understand your problem w height, but we have always left it to grow and we got much more plums

  • @keithwidner1096
    @keithwidner10962 жыл бұрын

    I want to know when to prune a Japanese plum tree

  • @RobBalla
    @RobBalla10 жыл бұрын

    great video! Very helpful...thanks for the information. I purchased a grafted plum tree with 3 different types of plums...It's about 3-4 years old, 12 feet in height and i haven't pruned it yet. I understand you said it's ok to prune in winter...should i prune middle or end of winter?

  • @khthhonl

    @khthhonl

    10 жыл бұрын

    Hi Rob Balla, I usually prune them after leave fall and before new leave burst out. Pruning late Winter has the advantage of cuts being exposed lesser time to the elements and heals quicker during Spring regrowth. Hope this help and thanks for watching

  • @arsadali6968
    @arsadali69682 жыл бұрын

    I have a silvyia cherry tree is fourteen years old.but it doesn’t grow flower & fruit. how will i grow flowers & fruits from it.suggest me please. i am from Bangladesh. Its weather is not so cold. its weather is summer based.

  • @mikebetts2046

    @mikebetts2046

    2 жыл бұрын

    I am not familiar with that specific type of cherry tree but I can offer some general advice that might be helpful. 1. Does the tree appear to be healthy in other ways? I have a tart cherry tree that for years produced very few flowers and no fruit. The leaves would drop off early in the season and growth was very slow. I learned that it was suffering from a fungus on the leaves. I then started using a copper spray in early spring and the tree really came alive. Leaves would then hold on well into autumn and started getting nice harvests. 2. Is there a possibility you are pruning off too much and this cutting off flower buds? 3. Is this tree a sweet cherry? Most of them require a pollinating tree of a different kind. Of course you said no flowering, so that would only be an issue of it flowered but no fruit. 4. Do you live in an area with very cold winters? Temperatures of around -20 F can kill the fruit buds of some cherry trees. I live in Michigan, USA and we have a huge cherry industry here, but our tart cherries can handle our cold winters. These are just some things to consider.

  • @mikebetts2046

    @mikebetts2046

    2 жыл бұрын

    Also, sorry I did not pay attention that you are in Bangladesh, so no cold winters. But maybe you have too much rain and soil is too damp or too much clay. In michigan, our cherry trees grow where the soil is sandy and well drained.

  • @mohammadshafimir2
    @mohammadshafimir23 жыл бұрын

    there will be photosynthesis problem to fruitinh branch.All may not be pruned

  • @samkitty5894
    @samkitty58942 жыл бұрын

    I never prune during active growing season.

  • @jonogamblin5668
    @jonogamblin56686 жыл бұрын

    Never prune plum in winter... please be aware of the major problem of silver leaf disease for plum and other stone fruit. . at least in humid climates. . i am battling against it here now after ignoring the good advice to prune in spring and summer in dry weather. . otherwise good video

  • @mikesaldana4164
    @mikesaldana41643 жыл бұрын

    When I was done with mine .. it it looked like a twig stuck in the ground lol

  • @jeronemo9119
    @jeronemo91195 жыл бұрын

    too quick my friend!!!

  • @rastos6992
    @rastos69923 жыл бұрын

    zlé strihanie

  • @Lorand24
    @Lorand244 жыл бұрын

    This is the way how you should not do!! Verry agressive pruning.

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