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Pruning an apple tree
Joesgarden
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Hi I moved into a house with two overgrown apple trees. For various reasons I cut them back hard. In hindsight I would’ve read more about it first. But most articles now don’t help me to know what to do after their fierce hair cut. From what I have gathered:
- vertical shoots are due to fierce cutback and fairly useless
- shouldn’t take more than roughly a 1/3 off (obviously a bit late). Not sure if that means a 1/3 of the length of a single branch or a 1/3 of the total branches.
- vertical shoots are due to fierce cutback and fairly useless
- shouldn’t take more than roughly a 1/3 off (obviously a bit late). Not sure if that means a 1/3 of the length of a single branch or a 1/3 of the total branches.
Any tips would be great. Thank you.
(pictures appeared in odd order but should be obvious which is original tree)
(pictures appeared in odd order but should be obvious which is original tree)
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