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- From: "Little Buddies Shanties" <litlbudy@whidbey.net>
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- Subject: [NAFEX] Pruning timing question
- Date: Sun, 6 Feb 2005 18:05:49 -0800
While reading a book on grapes I ran across
the following info on the timing of pruning grapes and wondered if it applied to
fruit trees as well.
This was from the "From Vines to Wines: by Jeff Cox
and is mainly geared to the Northeast US. I plan on picking up Lon Rombough's book "The Grape
Grower".
I am trying to delay the bud break on my apricots
and peaches. I have used seaweed spray and putting a hay mulch as buds
swell to lighted the soil color to delay flowering, and it appears to
work. Though I am scared to test this practice, since last year both trees
were loaded with fruit. I did read an article from Robert Purvis
in the winter 2001 Pomona and he suggested pruning just after the
first frost or a summer pruning in August for apricots.
We have had a warm winter here in Washington and my
apricot flowers show too much color and look like they could open any
day.
Does anyone have experience with these practices
?
Thanks much,
Felicia Camano Island, WA
98282
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- [NAFEX] Pruning timing question, Little Buddies Shanties, 02/06/2005
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