Points for attention in pomegranate pruning

Pomegranate is sensitive to pruning, improper pruning will cause the tree to grow too long or the tree is too weak. Because the trunk of pomegranate is not obvious, when planting in the courtyard, the umbrella should be used to open the shape, and the trunk should leave branches above 1.2 meters. Field cultivation should be based on flat head and longitudinal branch shape, in order to facilitate management and obtain early high yield. Second, the combination of winter and summer shear. Winter shearing often causes the tree to be too prosperous, which is not conducive to the formation of flower buds. Therefore, during the growth period, it is necessary to combine measures such as wiping buds, twisting branches, coring, thinning and other measures to adjust the tree potential. Third, the amount of cutting should be moderate. Pomegranate is sensitive to pruning and poor resistance to pruning. The amount of winter pruning will produce spring prosperity and the number of nutritious branches will increase, which will affect its fruit setting rate. Large amount of summer pruning will lead to weak tree potential. Therefore, the amount of winter shearing should be increased appropriately for the weak pomegranate trees and the summer shearing amount for the prosperous trees. Fourth, there should be fewer short cuts. Pomegranate pruning is mainly sparse branches and slow release, thinning senile dead branches, overgrowing fine branches, erect long branches, slowly releasing flat oblique branches and disease and insect branches, only a very small number of extended branches are cut short, too much short cut is easy to cause excessive tree potential, which is not conducive to flower formation, affecting the yield of a single plant.