Hi Hover - I have a similar problem - am having to prune my branch back, and guess i will lose the fruit. And I had read all the books (obviously just forgotten one of the important bits !!)
Hope you find some helpful answers above - and don't ever be afraid to ask a question here - there are loads of friendly people ready to provide advice and share their experiences.
The best advice I ever got about using this site was "take the best, ignore the rest" - with that motto, you can't go far wrong.
SD I am not offering advice on this topic,I am pointing out how unhelpful and rude I found your first reply.
I agree that it is good to read up on something first,that is not the problem here,the problem is the manner in which you respond to someone who has made the mistake and is looking for help.
Well, I for one would never have return to this forum if I had been 'spoken' to in the way you have done so SD. Believe it or not, new gardeners and experienced gardeners are allowed to make mistakes now and then and post to get good advice, not to be insulted.
You are no different from when you were on the BBC Forum except your name was then Punpun.
I hate the man but Donald Rumsfeld once said one interesting, and probably unintentionally funny, thing. He said that "There are the known knowns, (the things we know that we know), the known unknowns (the things we know that we don't know), the unknown knowns (the things we didn't know we knew) and the unknown unknowns ( the things we don't know that we don't know)".
Poor old Hover was in an unknown unknown situation when the branch broke. S/he is now in a state of known unknowns, soon to be a known known one.
Telling someone that they should know all about something before they do it is unreasonable, not to say a bit bonkers. There would be many fewer babies born if that were the case, for a start.
Addict, I have yet to prune my plum trees as they were flowering so nicely in the spring I didn't like to interrupt them and now that they are bearing fruit I'm having to wait for it to ripen which, up 'ere, will be a couple of weeks yet. Nils desperandum, I'm quick draw McGraw when it comes to pruning and sealing. No silver leaf on my little pets.
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I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
Thank you Waterbutts,TT and Fairygirl,......I just thought it needed saying,it made me quite angry.
"A person who never made a mistake never tried anything new" Albert Einstein.
Can we safely assume that SD knows it all?
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Thats what I'm trying to say. Any pruning should be done no later than July or the break will not have healed up enough to get through the winter
Hi Hover - I have a similar problem - am having to prune my branch back, and guess i will lose the fruit. And I had read all the books (obviously just forgotten one of the important bits !!)
Hope you find some helpful answers above - and don't ever be afraid to ask a question here - there are loads of friendly people ready to provide advice and share their experiences.
The best advice I ever got about using this site was "take the best, ignore the rest" - with that motto, you can't go far wrong
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Good luck with your tree.
SD I am not offering advice on this topic,I am pointing out how unhelpful and rude I found your first reply.
I agree that it is good to read up on something first,that is not the problem here,the problem is the manner in which you respond to someone who has made the mistake and is looking for help.
Well, I for one would never have return to this forum if I had been 'spoken' to in the way you have done so SD. Believe it or not, new gardeners and experienced gardeners are allowed to make mistakes now and then and post to get good advice, not to be insulted.
You are no different from when you were on the BBC Forum except your name was then Punpun.
TT
Smokin,
I hate the man but Donald Rumsfeld once said one interesting, and probably unintentionally funny, thing. He said that "There are the known knowns, (the things we know that we know), the known unknowns (the things we know that we don't know), the unknown knowns (the things we didn't know we knew) and the unknown unknowns ( the things we don't know that we don't know)".
Poor old Hover was in an unknown unknown situation when the branch broke. S/he is now in a state of known unknowns, soon to be a known known one.
Telling someone that they should know all about something before they do it is unreasonable, not to say a bit bonkers. There would be many fewer babies born if that were the case, for a start.
Addict, I have yet to prune my plum trees as they were flowering so nicely in the spring I didn't like to interrupt them and now that they are bearing fruit I'm having to wait for it to ripen which, up 'ere, will be a couple of weeks yet. Nils desperandum, I'm quick draw McGraw when it comes to pruning and sealing. No silver leaf on my little pets.
ask him Dove, I'm sure he knows that he knows
In the sticks near Peterborough