Time and method of pruning apricot trees

When planting apricot trees, it needs to be pruned and reshaped at least once or twice a year. The main purpose of pruning is to adjust the tree potential, improve the fruit setting rate of apricot trees, and prolong the fruiting period of apricot trees. So when will the apricot tree be trimmed? What is the method of pruning? Let's learn it together.

Pruning time

In fact, there is no time limit for apricot pruning, that is to say, pruning can be carried out all the year round, but the focus of pruning is different from season to season, so we need to prune according to the needs of apricot growth. But the best time for apricot pruning is in winter, when the apricot tree is dormant, pruning it, it will suffer the least damage. And in winter pruning, we can do a lot of pruning and renewal of branches and leaves, and the apricot tree itself has little impact. However, if it is pruned in other seasons, it can not be cut heavily, because the ability to heal is reduced, which will affect the growth of apricot trees, so they are generally light pruning.

2. Pruning method

1. Pruning young trees

During the period of young trees, apricot trees are mainly fixed trunk and shaping, and this stage is to form a complete tree shape and expand the crown. Apricot trees are generally happy-shaped trees, first retain the base trunk, and then retain two or three main trunks on the base, and finally form three, four and more branches on a trunk. After the young trees take shape, it is necessary to adjust the crown of the young trees, and constantly expand the crown, which can improve the fruiting rate of the fruiting period. At the same time, we also need appropriate shortening and elongation of branches and thinning of overdense branches.

2. Pruning in the early fruit stage

The yield of apricot trees in the early fruit stage is generally not very high, but if you want to improve the fruit rate of apricot trees as much as possible, then branch pruning is also very important. First of all, we need to prune the irregular branches and leaves to cultivate the growth of vegetative branches; the second is to cut short all levels of branches, maintain the tree shape, and constantly expand the crown and make use of as much space as possible. cultivate more fruiting mother branches.

3. Pruning in full fruit period

After entering the full fruit period, it is necessary to constantly add new branches, eliminate old branches, and truncate the trunk and lateral branches at all levels. Keep strong branches and strong branches, remove the crown, prune the upper branches that are too dense, and trim the cross branches, overlapping branches, weak fruit branches and dead branches at the same time. The most important thing is to cultivate new fruiting mother branches, promote the growth of fruiting mother branches and improve the fruiting rate of fruiting mother branches.

4. Pruning aging trees

For aging apricot trees, what we need to do is to update the branches, mainly by retraction and renewal pruning. The amount of fruit of aging trees will be greatly reduced, and there will be a large number of falling flowers and fruits, so we need to carry out scientific research according to the age, tree potential, management level and aging of apricot trees. When the tree is in good condition, it can only be updated lightly, but when the tree is weak, it is in progress, but if the tree is seriously weak, it needs to be re-updated.

The above is the introduction of the pruning techniques of apricot planting that the editor would like to share with you today. The editor mainly through the time of apricot pruning, and according to the introduction of different growth periods of apricot trees to let you understand the pruning of apricot trees, hoping to help you.