Plant pruning techniques that can grow flowers and need pruning

Pruning is an indispensable important link in the process of plant maintenance. Mastering the correct pruning method can cultivate a beautiful tree shape!

Pruning can also further regulate the distribution of nutrients in plants, inhibit overgrowth, promote the differentiation of flower buds, achieve the effect of early flowering and fruiting of young trees, and prolong the flowering and fruiting period, which can be said to have a lot of benefits. Today, I will introduce the pruning methods of plants, and we will keep them in mind!

1. Dormant pruning

Deciduous trees are mostly carried out during this period, evergreen trees have no obvious dormancy period, winter pruning will have a negative effect on the trees, usually in the late spring when the cold season has passed.

2. Pruning during the growing period

Also known as summer pruning, pruning time can not be too late, otherwise it is easy to promote the occurrence of secondary shoots and consumption of nutrients, not conducive to the growth of new shoots, while the amount of pruning is appropriate, excessive will reduce nutrient accumulation, detrimental to plant growth.

3. Pruning deciduous trees

1. Pay attention to maintaining the growth potential of the top tip: at the branch point, a first-order skeleton branch is set aside every 20-25 years, and the top growth advantage is also maintained on the skeleton branch, and a secondary branch is retained at a certain distance, and so on. Remove overgrown branches, drooping branches, etc.

two。 Evergreen broad-leaved trees: keep the central main branches, treat the skeleton branches reasonably, and keep the branches evenly distributed.

3. Evergreen coniferous trees: pay attention to cultivation and balance growth potential when pruning, generally do not prune, but pay attention to avoid the phenomenon of double stem and double head.

4. Hedge pruning

Hedges generally have strong sprouting ability, strong branching ability and resistance to pruning. In general, regular pruning is the main way to keep the appearance neat and beautiful, so as to avoid internal emptiness and lower baldness.

5. Pruning lianas

In general, pruning is rarely carried out, mainly by cutting short lateral branches, cutting off disease and insect branches, withered branches, and thinning weak branches properly.

6. Pruning of spring flowers

Taking Bauhinia, Begonia and Magnolia as examples, pruning is carried out within 1-2 weeks after flowering, in order to reduce nutrient consumption, promote multiple lateral branches, and increase the number of flowers in the coming year; in the winter dormancy period, flower buds have been basically formed, flower buds and leaf buds can be clearly distinguished, branches can be thinned properly, weak branches, withered branches, sprouting branches, and branches without flower buds can be cut off properly.

7. Pruning of flowering plants in summer and autumn

Take pomegranate, hibiscus, eight immortal flowers and crape myrtle as examples, pruning before flowering and short pruning of branches during dormancy to promote sturdy branches in spring.

8. Pruning of flowering plants in winter

Take wax plum, bauhinia, and plum blossoms as an example. After winter and spring blossoms, they take turns to cut short flower branches, leaving 3-5 nodes in each branch to promote axillary bud germination to form more new lateral branches. During the growing period, long branches, dense branches, and overlapping branches are often removed.

9. Pruning of flowering plants several times a year

Taking rose and crape myrtle as an example, all the branches were cut short in winter to promote the germination of strong branches, cut off the residual flowers in time after the flowers were shed, and eliminate the sprouting and tillering buds in time during the growing period, so as to promote the formation of new buds.

10. General procedures for pruning

1. Look: look at the inherent growth habits and specific site conditions of the pruning object, whether the distribution structure of the main and side branches of the tree is reasonable, whether the growth potential between the main and side branches and the crown is balanced, whether the relationship between vegetative growth and reproductive growth is coordinated, and so on. After comprehensive analysis, the corresponding pruning technical measures are determined.

two。 Cut off some perennial branches and even backbone branches that affect the growth and development of trees, destroy the tree structure, disturb the tree shape, and suffer from diseases and insect pests, so that the trees can basically achieve the purpose and requirements of shaping and pruning.

3. Shearing: on the basis that the structural shape of the tree basically meets the requirements of the purpose, the specific pruning of each main side branch is carried out, following the principle of staying strong but not weak, staying outside but not inside, and using techniques such as short cutting and branch thinning to make the shaping of trees more perfect.

4. Check: after the pruning is basically completed, carefully review the whole tree, correct or repair the places where the wrong or missing clips are cut, and check the influence of adjacent trees on each other and adjust them from the perspective of groups.

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