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EAFruit Tree Pruning Basics!
🌳Pruning your fruit trees is essential in keeping them healthy and manageable.
🍏Heading and Thinning Cuts are the cuts you need to practice and learn well.
🍎A Heading cut is one that is made somewhere along the branch or limb that reduces its size. 🌳This is especially helpful in managing the size of a dwarf fruit tree, they won’t stay small unless you prune them!
🍐It is best to make a heading cut above an outward facing bud to take advantage of the hormonal changes that occur and cause a new branch to grow outward.
🍒Thinning cuts remove a whole branch or limb at its source of origin.
🍑This is used to remove branches that are crossing other branches or those that are simply not where you want them to be aesthetically.
🍏Used correctly, you can grow a beautiful and manageable tree that produces a healthy amount of fruit.
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