Is that to remove a 1/3 or leave a 1/3??
Jim
N. Idaho
tolenio@sentex.net 4/28/2006 4:24 AM >>>
Hello,
I took a pruning course with Henry Kock at the Univ of Guelph in
Ontario.
On apple he told us to cut back all annual growth by 1/3rd (except
furiting spurs). Also keep it pruned to a weak central leader.
Later,
Tom
On Thu, 27 Apr 2006 21:34:25 -0400, Randall Burd <burdrs@comcast.net>
wrote:
I have several varieties of apples on M27 rootstock in containers. Iam
training these using a slender spindle method by winding the centralthe
leader up a stack in the containers. The problem that I am facing is
the lower scaffold branches are becoming quite wide and probably needto
be shortened to prevent the trees from engulfing each other.Thanks.
I have looked at Gene's M27 strategies at:
http://www.midfex.org/yale/dwarf.html and like what he has done.
Any thoughts on other pruning strategies that I might consider?
Randy
Jersey gardener
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