Fruit Tree Pruning Basics! 🌳Pruning your fruit trees is essential in keeping them healthy and manageable. 🍏Heading and Thinning Cuts are the cuts you need to practice and learn well. 🍎A Heading cut is one that is made somewhere along the branch or limb that reduces its size. 🌳This is especially helpful in managing the size of a dwarf fruit tree, they won’t stay small unless you prune them! 🍐It is best to make a heading cut above an outward facing bud to take advantage of the hormonal change

How to Prune Fruit Trees

How to Prune ANY Fruit Tree | Pruning Cuts You Will ALWAYS Use

Prune your fruit trees in the summer! 🌳For most regions the summer solstice is the best time to prune your trees, but better late than never. 🌳Summer pruning is what helps you to directly manage the size of your tree to your liking. 🌳Without a good summer pruning, the energy created in the summer can easily cause your tree to grow 4-8 times the following season and quickly outgrow its care taker.🌳It’s a great rule of thumb to keep the tree no taller than your furthest reach and prune above o