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Is it ok to lightly prune my Fig tree in summer?
Mountainranger
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Hi
Back in February I pruned my overgrown Brown Turkey fig tree by almost one third and I pruned back some of the roots placing in concrete tiles to restrict roots.
Now the tree has a lot of fleshy summer growth and new shoots almost a foot in height. I don’t want the tree to get too tall like it used to be. Is it ok for me to prune out those new green shoots now or should I wait until autumn? I was hoping if I prune the shoots now it will encourage side shoots lower down.
Any opinions?
(Btw the tree has a lot of figs to pick soon
Back in February I pruned my overgrown Brown Turkey fig tree by almost one third and I pruned back some of the roots placing in concrete tiles to restrict roots.
Now the tree has a lot of fleshy summer growth and new shoots almost a foot in height. I don’t want the tree to get too tall like it used to be. Is it ok for me to prune out those new green shoots now or should I wait until autumn? I was hoping if I prune the shoots now it will encourage side shoots lower down.
Any opinions?
(Btw the tree has a lot of figs to pick soon
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