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back to the main stem and what you're looking for here is what's called the
branch collar and the branch collar is where the branch widens as it meets the
stem so it varies from tree to tree from species to species
what's talked about in terms of bad cuts or flush cuts when if you read an
old pruning book they talk about flush cuts completely wrong don't follow it
by creating a flush cut the wound that you make takes away the
material which is the best material for a wound healing so ideally
we want is a nice small cut that will heal over quickly -so on this tree
that's about there it's quite hard to be really precise
almost twice the size this also it's kind of going all over the place and
that what's happened there is that that's got bent so it's gone in the
wrong direction so again two cuts and this one is a bit tighter
taking off a root flare a branch collar flare but I'm still not right against
the bark there is still a gap so just systematically
where you've got these parts twisty then work out what angle actually goes on for
sending that that's the end of the because you've got nice tidy
fruit on plums tends to go on one or two year old wood so just different
different varieties and different species produce a fruit from different
bits of wood most fruit generally comes a one or two year old wood doesn't come
on really old wood so what you pruning is to promote air and light to the fruit
producing areas and also to promote growth of those pieces of wood
you can also sea on this there are some rot we prune lower down and they've died
back that often happens if you prune a lower branch back usually if you're
pruning a lower branch on a slightly more mature tree like this you
want to take it back to the stem because it's just going to be shaded out
and end up dying reason why
they're less prone to dying in summer partly because a lot of the fungal
diseases like simply aren't present in the summer they show in the autumn
and prunus trees have this gum they produce a gummy substance
Cherry's that's why for compiling paper so by doing this they should produce a
certain amount gum don't worry
bear in mind which direction the bud your pruning grows - that's the
direction the branch is going to grow so I just pruned this back but not all the way
leaf and there's a bud just in the crux there so if you prune back
pruning that way if I bring back to there the tree will grow that way
because that's the side that the bud is on yeah if I prune back to there will
grow that way yeah partly depends on light it may start off going that way
but if the lights that way it will move but that's how you kind of get direction
in your pruning.
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