When is the best time to cut the latest peach trees in winter?

Peach is a popular fruit. Peach trees are planted all over our country. When planting peach trees, all kinds of management work is indispensable. Among them, the pruning work is particularly important, and the pruning work is divided into spring pruning, summer shearing, winter shearing and so on. As winter enters now, when is the best time to cut peach trees in winter? The following editor will give you a brief introduction, let's have a look!

1. Winter cutting time

Winter pruning of peach trees should be carried out between December and February. Its pruning time is very important, not too early and too late, too early and too late pruning will lead to peach trees consume a lot of nutrients. It has a great impact on the tree potential, thus affecting the flowering and fruiting of the peach tree in the second year. And when we prune, we should also pay attention to planting varieties, which are generally divided into southern varieties and northern varieties. Among them, the southern varieties should be cut in winter in December. If it is a northern variety, it should not be done when the temperature is the lowest in January, preferably in the first and middle of February.

2. Winter shearing method

In addition to the main pruning time, the winter pruning method of peach trees can not be ignored. Because the flower buds of peach trees are pure flower buds with lateral characteristics. Therefore, when we cut peach trees in winter, we should give priority to short cutting and thinning and shrinking cutting as a supplement. When cutting in winter, keep the bouquet-like short fruit branches of the peach tree, and all the other branches are truncated. And the bouquet-like short fruit branches should be thinned or thrown, and the competitive branches such as backbone branches and elongated branches should also be thinned. At the same time, if there is a fruiting branch group that grows too long and too dense, then it should be shrunk properly.

3. Degree of winter shearing

Then we should also pay attention to control the degree of winter shearing. First of all, we have to prune according to the actual situation of the planting area. For example, if the annual precipitation is not much, then the growth of peach branches will not be very large, so it should be heavily truncated to promote the fruit shoot. Then it should be pruned according to the growth characteristics of the planted varieties, for example, the growth of peach trees of the southern varieties is relatively moderate, so it is necessary to focus on the short cut. And some medium-long fruit branches should be retained, on the contrary, the northern varieties should be light and short because of their vigorous growth, and the fruiting branches are mainly medium-and short-fruit branches and bouquet-like short fruit branches.

Finally, we have to prune according to the type of branch. When pruning elongated branches, the pruning should be kept to the extent that there are many branches and not only at the base. When pruning long branches, except for keeping some lateral branches and bald parts of the inner chamber for the fruiting branch group, all the overgrown branches should be removed from the base. For example, when pruning long fruiting branches, we should take heavy truncation as the principle, let it bear about 4 fruit, and then grow a number of fruit branches, such as long, medium and short, and cultivate them into fruiting branch groups.

The above is a brief introduction to when to cut peach trees in winter. That's all for today's introduction. This article is for reference only. I hope it can be helpful to everyone.