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In a message dated 8/23/2010 6:06:21 PM Eastern Daylight Time, billg@inebraska.com writes:

> Pruning - dormant pruning, at least - also encourages plants to break 
> dormancy earlier, doesn't it? I've always heard that I should prune some 
> things late, if I want them to stay dormant as long as possible in the 
> spring. 
 


Hi Bill,

I highly doubt that spring pruning causes the subject to break dormancy earlier.
Can't think of a reason for this. 

Jerry