Winter pruning method of fig

Because fig branches are thick and leaves are fat, winter pruning technology is different from other fruit trees. The author summarizes its winter pruning principle as "depending on variety, young light, adjusting main branches, heavy fruit". The details are as follows:

Look at the varieties mature earlier varieties, terminal buds on the new shoots of fruit maturity is also early, fruit is also large, such fruit branches generally do not cut short. For other varieties, there is no need to pay special attention to retention, because the new shoots of this kind of fig, except for the base 1~2 buds less flowering and fruiting, the rest of the shoots can flower and bear fruit. After some varieties terminal bud extension, several buds under it can also sprout more vigorous new shoots, select 1~2 new shoots with suitable orientation and strong growth, and remove the redundant ones; varieties with weak germination ability can not be thinned, and the middle and lower parts can be promoted to germinate new branches by shortening, so as to prevent the fruit parts from moving out too quickly. Young light during the young tree shaping period, in order to rapidly increase the number of branches, expand the crown, promote flowering, early results, pruning should be appropriate light. Adjust the main branches to the main and lateral branches of the extension of the appropriate short; weak branches should be appropriate light shear; tree crown cross or parallel large branches, appropriate thinning; from the rhizosphere, large branch base or near the wound germination of excessive long branches, lack of branches or there is a large space, can be cultivated for the fruit mother branch or for renewal, otherwise should be early thinning. Heavy fruiting appropriate thinning of over-dense branches and thin branches, in order to prevent the fruiting branch group is too dense, because the fig annual branches except long branches, almost all can become fruiting mother branches; With the growth of the tree age, the fruiting position gradually moves outward, resulting in the emptiness of the base. The weak lateral branches and auxiliary branches should be removed from the base to promote the germination of new shoots from the latent buds, enrich the base, and also achieve the purpose of rejuvenation (the new shoots germinated by the latent buds can also flower and bear fruit in the same year, but the quality of the fruits is poor).