Pruning techniques of peach trees

As we all know, peach trees have a strong ability to reproduce, and it will not take long for peach trees to flourish. Both the growth of peach trees and the fruit of peaches need sunlight. Too luxuriant branches and leaves will block the sunlight. Pruning the branches will help the peach taste sweet. So, the editor will teach you how to prune peach trees.

Pruning techniques of peach trees

Tools / raw materials: pruning shears, ladders.

1. Be sure to trim the tree shorter, which will promote it to grow outward rather than upward.

2. In order to bear big and sweet fruit, about 90% of the fruit already on the tree should be removed. A healthy tree usually produces too much fruit, and it is impossible for it to raise them all by itself, so in order to get the best yield, be sure to remove most of them.

3. When pruning mature peach trees, it is necessary to set the shape of peach trees. This is the most important step in pruning, which determines the growth form and yield of the tree. You only need to leave four or six old branches, and the rest can be cut off.

4. All pruned branches should grow at an angle of 45 degrees. If it is too peaceful or too standing, the branches are easy to break when they bear fruit.

5. if you look down, the branches surround the peach tree, making the trunk an open center that looks like a doughnut or ring.

Pruning the fruiting period of peach trees

In this period of pruning, one is to control the crown to prevent the crown from closing, and the other is to maintain the fruiting ability of the branch group to ensure high and stable yield.

1. Summer pruning.

In addition to twisting, thinning, twisting and other measures, when the crown reaches the predetermined size, compress and thinning the upper branch group, make the upper branch group as small and sparse as possible, improve the lower light; when there is crown transition, retract the branches, so that there is a 100cm interval between the rows, thinning the upper branch group to solve the lighting problem.

2. Winter pruning.

The pruning of the main branch. When it does not reach the predetermined height, it will continue to grow and release. After reaching the height, it will retract to the short branch at the rear, and then grow and release it after drawing the growing branch. In this way, the expansion and contraction alternately will keep the crown within a certain range on the one hand, and keep the shape of single end elongation and upper small and lower big all the time.

3. Maintenance and renewal of branch group.

If the large and medium branch group has space, it can continue to grow, otherwise it can be retracted alternately, maintain the result, and keep the result alternately. The large and medium branch group should keep braided shape and do not make it branch for many times. When the large and medium branch group can not produce long fruit branches, it should be aggravated and retracted to the last branch of the branch group, so that it can grow and flourish new shoots, twist branches in summer, and then grow into a new branch group, continue to bear fruit, and achieve the purpose of renewal.

Pruning time of peach trees

The pruning period of peach trees can be divided into winter pruning (dormant pruning) and summer pruning (growing pruning). Winter pruning can be carried out from falling leaves in autumn to before sprouting in the following spring, especially in late autumn. Pruning early, the wound is easy to heal, the cut bud grows well, and can promote the flower bud to be full and full. Summer pruning can be carried out from bud germination to shoot stop, especially from May to August.

The benefits of peach tree pruning

1. Pruning peach trees can help them grow. Pruning sounds bad for plants, but in fact it is very good for peach trees to grow.

2. Pruning the peach tree will rejuvenate the peach tree and make it bear more fruit. After pruning, the yield of peaches can be increased.

3. Peach trees need to be nourished by the sun, and the branches that always hide in the shadow do not bear much fruit.

4. Cut off some branches that can't always shine in the sun, and let the whole tree be bathed in the sun. Cut off the dead parts of the trees, so that the old ones will not go and the new ones will not come.

5. If you want to spray a layer of insecticide on the tree, pruning will ensure that the insecticide covers the whole plant evenly.

Shaping technology of peach trees

1. Set dry. After the peach tree seedlings are planted, the peach tree is cut at 60cm to 70cm above the ground, and 20 cm (7cm 10 strong and plump leaf buds) are left under the cutting mouth as a shaping band (the so-called shaping belt is a section of the trunk selected to keep the main branch when setting the trunk, which is located below the cutting mouth and above the trunk), and three main branches are cultivated in the belt. After sprouting, the buds below the plastic band are all erased.

2. Cultivate the main branch. After the seedling is dried, when the annual shoot grows to 50 cm, it begins to choose the main branch. We can cut off the central branch, make use of the annual new shoots or annual secondary shoots germinated on the trunk, select the ones with suitable distance and orientation as the main branches, and cut off the central branches above the third main branch. From August to September, the angle of the main branch was opened by the method of pulling branches.

3. Choose a side branch on the main branch, and generally leave three or four side branches on a main branch (the so-called side branch is the fixed backbone branch planted on the main branch). Add some techniques for shaping and pruning to complete the above steps.

The above is the relevant knowledge of peach tree pruning, as long as the use of scientific and reasonable methods for planting, it will certainly cultivate healthy and luxuriant peach trees and produce sweet and juicy peaches. I hope this article of the editor will be helpful to your needs.