Key points of pruning technique of pomegranate tree

Fruit trees in different growth stages, its pruning is different, and pomegranate can be divided into summer pruning and winter pruning, summer pruning is mainly wiping buds and pulling branches, while winter is mainly thinning. Let's take a look at the key points of pomegranate pruning techniques with Xiaobian.

1. Pruning young trees

The stem was fixed at 70 cm after planting, and during the first winter shearing, three branches with uniform distribution were selected from the new branches germinated within 30 cm below the cut mouth, which were cultured as the main branches, leaving 60 cm short, and the rest of the branches were thinned. Grow and pull the three main branches, and the angle of the branch should be determined according to the tree shape. In the next winter pruning, one side branch can be selected for each main branch, three main branches remain on the same side as far as possible, and the extended branches of each main branch are cut short by 60 cm. In the third year of winter pruning, each main branch leaves the second side branch on the opposite side of the first side branch, extending the length of the branch or cutting it lightly, which can be completed in 3-4 years.

2. Pruning fruit trees

Pomegranate trees in the full fruit period should keep the crown "sparse on the top, sparse on the outside, dense on the inside, and dense on the big branches and small branches", so it is necessary to timely remove the superfluous long branches, overgrown branches, introverted branches, cross branches, overlapping branches, disease and insect branches, weak branches, and so on. At the same time, attention should be paid to the balance between tree growth and fruit. late trees should remove part of the strong and long branches in winter, leave as many short fruiting mother branches as possible, pull branches in the growing season, weak trees should retract and rejuvenate, drooping branch groups should retract and raise their heads, and pay attention to the renewal and rotation of branch groups.

3. Pruning of senescent branches

The senescent branches mainly adopt rejuvenation and renewal, for the front drooping and weak main and lateral branches, retract to the upward growing branches to make them grow again, for the rear bald main and lateral branches, retract to the posterior part of the branches, or part of the tillering flourishing branches or long branches after deciduous leaves in the following year, combined with the growing season branches, gradually cultivate the main and lateral branches. In winter, the senile plants should be sawed off from the ground, and in the following winter cutting, 1 and 3 of them were selected from the sprouting tillers as new trunks, and then re-cultivated, which is called regeneration.

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