Pruning can help the grower to regulate to a certain extent the quantity and quality of the fruit to be borne. If there are too many branches and too many fruit spurs there may be quantity without size or quality.
Pruning should facilitate the picking of the fruit and the complete spraying of the trees. It is difficult to control pests and diseases on branches that are extremely tall, unless one has special spraying equipment. Any good pruner must feel his power. He must know and realize what he is doing, for he can make the tree grow and develop largely as he wills, and his skill is going to determine the future of the bush or tree to a large extent.
There is little doubt that the most important difference between the fruit grower who uses chemical fertilizers and the organic fruit grower is that the former thinks that he knows best what his trees need and proceeds to give it to them in comparatively large doses. He ought to know by this time, however, that much of the dosage thus given is never taken up by the trees at all.
On the other hand, pruning may be necessary to remove a dead branch or some diseased portion of a tree or bush. A tree may have got too tall, and so need shortening, or a bush tree in a garden may be growing too vigorously, and so will need root pruning.
A rambling, straggling type of tree can be pruned into a more shapely specimen. Pruning can give to the owner of the tree the number of branches he needs.
If he is skilled he can ensure that these branches develop exactly where he wants them. He can preserve the balance of his tree by keeping the branches of his tree well spaced, and so allow the air and sunlight to reach all parts of the tree.
Pruning should facilitate the picking of the fruit and the complete spraying of the trees. It is difficult to control pests and diseases on branches that are extremely tall, unless one has special spraying equipment. Any good pruner must feel his power. He must know and realize what he is doing, for he can make the tree grow and develop largely as he wills, and his skill is going to determine the future of the bush or tree to a large extent.
There is little doubt that the most important difference between the fruit grower who uses chemical fertilizers and the organic fruit grower is that the former thinks that he knows best what his trees need and proceeds to give it to them in comparatively large doses. He ought to know by this time, however, that much of the dosage thus given is never taken up by the trees at all.
On the other hand, pruning may be necessary to remove a dead branch or some diseased portion of a tree or bush. A tree may have got too tall, and so need shortening, or a bush tree in a garden may be growing too vigorously, and so will need root pruning.
A rambling, straggling type of tree can be pruned into a more shapely specimen. Pruning can give to the owner of the tree the number of branches he needs.
If he is skilled he can ensure that these branches develop exactly where he wants them. He can preserve the balance of his tree by keeping the branches of his tree well spaced, and so allow the air and sunlight to reach all parts of the tree.
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Garden fruit trees such as dwarf pear can be trained by the espalier method to form attractive and productive patterns flat against a sunny fence or wall.
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