What is the method of pruning pomegranate trees?

pomegranate trees are deciduous trees or shrubs; leaves simple, usually opposite or clustered, without stipules. It can be planted as fruit trees or potted plants. What is the pruning method of pomegranate trees?

What is the pruning method of pomegranate trees?

1. Pomegranates need to be pruned every year, according to the situation can be pruned into a single round head shape, or multi-stem cluster formation, etc., in addition, in its fruiting period, need to be long branches in summer and autumn after the short cut at the same time also timely cut off the sprouts occurred in the rhizosphere.

2. Pomegranates branch tissue loose, cold resistance is poor, in order to reduce freezing injury, winter shear should be postponed to late February. Winter pruning often results in overgrowth of trees. Therefore, during the growth period, but also in combination with wiping buds, twisting branches, beating the heart, thinning and other measures to adjust the tree potential.

3. Pomegranates are sensitive to pruning and have poor shear tolerance. Spring flowering occurs in winter and more vegetative branches affect fruit setting rate. Large summer pruning will cause weak tree vigor. Therefore, the trees with weak tree vigor should be appropriately increased in winter shear amount, and the vigorous trees should be appropriately increased in summer shear amount.

4. Pomegranates are pruned mainly by thinning branches and slow release, thinning old dead branches, overdense thin branches, upright long branches, slow release of inclined branches and diseased branches, and only a few extended branches are truncated. Too much truncation is easy to cause excessive tree vigor, which is not conducive to flowering and affects the yield of single tree.

5. Timely thinning sprout branches (sprouts generated by twigs), drooping branches, flowering twigs, harmful branches of diseases and pests, dead branches, so that branches are thin and thick and evenly distributed, and the crown is well ventilated and transparent. Pomegranates wither when appropriate thin cut some weak branches, reduce nutrient consumption.

In addition, pomegranate young tree pruning should be carried out between February and March of the second year, leaving 1-3 strong branches for each tree as the trunk for cultivation, and all the rest branches are thinned. During July and August, no branches should be left in the space 45 cm above the ground. If there are branches, they should be cut early to facilitate the growth of lateral branches at the upper part.