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  • From: Douglas Woodard <dwoodard@becon.org>
  • To: North American Fruit Explorers <nafex@lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [NAFEX] Summer pruning
  • Date: Mon, 23 Aug 2010 14:02:43 -0400

Pruning tends to delay dormancy.

It can be used to prolong bark slipping for summer budding. Nitrogen fertilization (say with raw manure) and abundant watering also help this way.

Doug Woodard
St. Catharines, Ontario, Canada


William C. Garthright wrote:

[snip]

But I didn't think about wound-healing. Does it really take weeks to heal over a wound? I mean, we've probably got almost two months before our first freeze. Do I have to worry about it healing by then?

[snip]

Bill
Lincoln, NE (zone 5)




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