How to prune stone fruit trees in summer

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Pruning fruit trees improve yield and quality.
Winter pruning when trees are dormant promotes vigorous growth, so prune then to encourage a good basic structure for a young tree or when trying to adjust the shape of a mature tree.
Summer pruning inhibits growth so now is the best time to maintain a tree’s shape and to keep the tree to a reasonable size for netting and harvesting.
Summer is also a good time to prune stonefruit so they can heal while still in active growth - the best time is immediately after fruiting, especially for apricots.
Tino shows how he approaches pruning on a greengage plum (Prunus domestica) at The Patch.
Before starting, make sure your secateurs and loppers are clean of fruit sap, which can harbour diseases, and sharpened, as blunt tools can rip and damage branches. It’s a good idea to have a small spray bottle of methylated spirits with you when pruning, so you can spray your tools between trees and avoid spreading diseases.
Become familiar with what a fruit spur looks like - a clustered rosette of buds - to make sure you’re not cutting off all your harvest!
What to do:
1. Remove the suckers - produced by trees as a response to damaged roots. Not only do suckers make it hard to access the tree, but they draw away energy. Cut them as low as possible so they don’t reshoot.
2. Remove any dead, damaged or diseased branches.
3. Remove any branches that are touching the ground.
4. Trim off any inward-facing branches that will reduce airflow in the centre of the tree, making the tree more prone to pests and diseases.
5. Shorten other branches. Tino shortens long, lanky growth that might break off if covered in heavy fruit, but he cuts back to a new bud that will produce new growth. He earmarks another side shoot he will cut back to next year.
6. If you have thin branches (pencil thickness) that then divide again and are carrying lots of fruit spurs Tino recommends reducing the load by cutting off one side of the divided section. This is called singulation. It reduces the risk of the branch breaking under the weight of fruit and means the fruit that does grow will be slightly larger.
7. Cut back long, vertical growth quite hard - this won’t harm the tree and will make it easier to cover the tree with netting if necessary.
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  • @agb0012000
    @agb00120004 жыл бұрын

    Wow, what an excellent video. It was very informative. You answered all the questions I had. Thank you so much for taking the time to make and post this video.

  • @kassandrajeffery7035
    @kassandrajeffery70353 жыл бұрын

    Thanks so much for this video! I've moved into a rental with a couple of tall plum and nectarine trees that clearly haven't been looked after in such a way for years, if ever. Now I know what to do to cut them down and help them regain better health as well as produce bigger/better fruit next season. The plum trees themselves have grown so tall and clearly haven't been pruned for years that the fruit are many (covering my ground as we speak) but about the size of a large grape. The birds are loving them, though! XD

  • @wildchook745
    @wildchook7454 жыл бұрын

    Tino, thank you for identifying the fruiting spurs. Great pruning tips too.

  • @GardeningAustralia

    @GardeningAustralia

    4 жыл бұрын

    Glad it was helpful!

  • @evanever
    @evanever3 жыл бұрын

    Good to get that information about the apricots. I have a tree that's about 3/4 rootstock as shoots were allowed to grow from below the graft. After taking much of that growth away in Winter, it's all just grown back with a vengeance and the actual tree has done very little. So I'm itching to completely remove the rootstock section as soon as possible.

  • @irishkazolotse
    @irishkazolotse4 жыл бұрын

    Thank you very much, now i know to be bold!!!!

  • @elizabethfitzgibbon3908
    @elizabethfitzgibbon39082 жыл бұрын

    Great help! Thanks

  • @followchristwithme37
    @followchristwithme374 жыл бұрын

    Thank you for the video :)

  • @Deno__Deno
    @Deno__Deno3 жыл бұрын

    Very informative vid thanks mate, your trees look very healthy, a credit to your connection to the earth.. Well done, thanks... Regards D

  • @hannahr7068
    @hannahr70684 жыл бұрын

    Awesome work! very informative, Are you able to do a segment on two way grafted trees? or multiple? Thank you :)

  • @NewMindGarden
    @NewMindGarden4 жыл бұрын

    Beautiful

  • @gildenty
    @gildenty4 жыл бұрын

    I have a fig tree, could you show how can I prune? Thanks 🙏🏻

  • @insidethegardenwall22
    @insidethegardenwall224 жыл бұрын

    Videos of Gardening Australia don’t seem to include automatic closed captioning which would tremendously help people like me. Please consider adding this feature for future videos. THANKS!!!

  • @GardeningAustralia

    @GardeningAustralia

    4 жыл бұрын

    Yes, apologies our current videos don't have closed captions. Hoping to implement them on new videos from March this year.

  • @insidethegardenwall22

    @insidethegardenwall22

    4 жыл бұрын

    Thanks and I found your videos very helpful and educational. Look forward to more in cc!

  • @candisfirchau3810
    @candisfirchau38104 жыл бұрын

    Are suckers always the result if root damage, or could they also be from too much water?

  • @everythingforeveryone107
    @everythingforeveryone1074 жыл бұрын

    Very interesting information, I am doing farming in Pakistan samll level

  • @kristiefitzpatrick8528
    @kristiefitzpatrick85283 жыл бұрын

    Just wondering can I prune in winter?

  • @amounifnd
    @amounifnd4 жыл бұрын

    Only problem is pruning trees end of Feb or March, they just grow back what you cut off before winter. You need to hold back end of Winter and wait till the next year, but you do get more fruit. Winter probably just do a light clean up.

  • @alexanderroland9861
    @alexanderroland98614 жыл бұрын

    Gardening Australia

  • @halfmicronfilter46
    @halfmicronfilter464 жыл бұрын

    Hey Tino I have a huge mature cherry plum tree on apricot rootstock. It fruits heavily with sweet red fruit but it's too high and impossible to manage or net. How hard and far can I cut this back - I want to get it back to under 2.5m ? The main branches are up to 100mm diameter.

  • @zanetaia2242

    @zanetaia2242

    3 жыл бұрын

    You can bring the height down, but if you do cut it down and it's a lot of fruit buds off the tree, you would want to bac seal paint the cut, and prune as little as you can thereafter since you have already made major cuts.

  • @hemsty2
    @hemsty23 жыл бұрын

    is plum included in the group of stone fruit trees? you didn't mention plum at 6:15

  • @TuanNguyen-ir5re

    @TuanNguyen-ir5re

    2 жыл бұрын

    Yes it is, plum is Prunus spp., the tree Tino pruned in demonstration.

  • @Falcodrin
    @Falcodrin2 жыл бұрын

    Pretty sure you can prune your family tree. It's just illegal most places.

  • @drpk6514
    @drpk6514 Жыл бұрын

    The vast majority of fruits shouldn't be grown from seeds. After 6-10 years you will regret it. Some fruits and varieties come true to the type but the majority are disappointing. Never advise others to do that. And that's a shadehouse, not a greenhouse. Yes, they are different.

  • @zeleniyproekt3176
    @zeleniyproekt31762 жыл бұрын

    ßa

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