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Hello out there.
We're going to be discussing about pruning and wiring
a pistachio in this video.
It's now the beginning of December in the UK
and the branches have settled down
into the long slumber of winter.
It's an ideal time... the pistachios being evergreen
are not going to be able to lose all their leaves
and I'm not going to want to remove the leaves off the branches.
Pruning the pistachio and most other evergreen trees
can be a little bit of a tedium,
so we'll be pruning the pistachio,
which by the way has long bipinnate kind of stems,
so it's a little bit more difficult to actually see
where to prune in the pistachio branches,
but nevertheless, once we've identified the nodes
on the stem on the pistachio,
it's easy enough to prune.
We then follow the simple 123 kind of rules
so that we leave just three nodes on this year's growth.
More often than not, by this time of the year,
if you've been feeding your tree well,
you will find lateral growth happening
at the base of this year's growth in which case
just leave three lateral shoots.
The pistachio branches,
which can get very hard and brittle,
generally need to have a little bit heavier grade of wire on them
to bend them out.
When the branches are still at the coppery, reddy, brown color,
they have not yet linguified
so generally it's best to avoid wiring them at that stage.
I generally wait till the pistachios have actually
become brown in color or started to linguify and then wire them.
Try not to wire the stem when it is still on the green side
or coppery, red brown side.
I've seen a few people do that
and I think it just scars the branch
and it's not really worth the effort.
When wiring the pistachio, as usual,
make sure that you wire two branches at a time,
starting by winding the wire on the heavier trunk
so that it acts as a stronger fulcrom,
and then you can move outwards
on to the secondary branches.
Once you have them in position,
once the branches have been wired in position,
you can just move it out into the light
or into a suitable position that you want to move it into.
Well guys, I hope you enjoyed watching the pistachio video
on pruning and wiring pistachios.
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