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Potted fruit tree pruning!
NOAA123!
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Hi,
Please can someone tell me how/when to prune these two trees? The taller of the two is a cherry tree (never had fruit) & the smaller is a pear tree (fruited for a couple of years but nothing recent). They’re both around 5 years old & I’ll be honest, they’ve been very neglected! They might be beyond saving for all I know but I would like to try! I’ve repotted them using John Innes No 3 & have fed them, but I’m totally clueless on pruning! The pear tree has a few low level branches that have leaves but nothing higher up - do I get rid of the lower branches to encourage growth further up? Like I say, totally clueless so all advice gratefully received!
thank you!
Please can someone tell me how/when to prune these two trees? The taller of the two is a cherry tree (never had fruit) & the smaller is a pear tree (fruited for a couple of years but nothing recent). They’re both around 5 years old & I’ll be honest, they’ve been very neglected! They might be beyond saving for all I know but I would like to try! I’ve repotted them using John Innes No 3 & have fed them, but I’m totally clueless on pruning! The pear tree has a few low level branches that have leaves but nothing higher up - do I get rid of the lower branches to encourage growth further up? Like I say, totally clueless so all advice gratefully received!
thank you!
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Both can be used for different reasons which it mentions in the links but note that it's not a good ideal to prune a cherry in the winter because they are very susceptible to bacterial infections, there's a little bit on them here https://www.rhs.org.uk/fruit/cherries/grow-your-own
Trees don't love being in pots unless they are on really dwarf root stock tbh but the lack of fruit is probably because they need another tree to pollinate. Some cherries are self fertile but others need a pollinating partner to produce fruit, so it could be that this is your problem. Other fruit trees that are partially self fertile can have some limited fruit but will fruit much more strongly with a pollinating partner.