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[NAFEX] Can I lightly prune my apple trees now that they are leafing out?

From: Hilborn.E@epamail.epa.gov
To: North American Fruit Explorers <nafex@lists.ibiblio.org>
Subject: [NAFEX] Can I lightly prune my apple trees now that they are leafing out?
Date: Fri, 18 Apr 2008 10:12:43 -0400

I dutifully performed my dormant pruning however, some of the buds I
identified as flower buds were only large terminal leaf buds. Now that
they are leafing out/blooming I see where I made mistakes.

I am training these dwarf trees as oblique cordons, so I hate to leave
longish laterals if they are not producing fruit.

Is it OK to prune these laterals back 6-8 inches or so now?

Thanks!

Betsy Hilborn
7a NC

[NAFEX] IPM, Alan Haigh, 04/18/2008
- Re: [NAFEX] IPM, Donna &/or Kieran, 04/18/2008
  - [NAFEX] Can I lightly prune my apple trees now that they are leafing out?, Hilborn . E, 04/18/2008
    - Re: [NAFEX] Can I lightly prune my apple trees now that they are leafing out?, Ed Fackler, 04/18/2008
  - [NAFEX] Spring freeze, Hilborn . E, 04/18/2008
  - Re: [NAFEX] IPM, Stephen Sadler, 04/18/2008
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