Cutting young trees and shrubs - by reducing the number of fruit-bearing shoots and flower buds, it almost always reduces the fruit yield. Therefore, young trees are recommended to be pruned only when necessary and as little as possible. It is different with trees …
Day: November 28, 2017
Effect of cutting on fruit set
The fruit setting process can be conventionally divided into two stages. In the first stage, the flower is pollinated and fertilized, in the second of the fertilized flower a fruit set develops. Not found, that the pruning may have an effect on the pollination and fertilization of the flower, …
The effect of cutting on the formation of flower buds
Under good care, all young trees tend to form profusely flower buds three or four years after being planted in the orchard. Cutting can hinder this process or delay it for several years.
One of the conditions for creating …
The effect of pruning on the growth of trees and shrubs
Even at the beginning of the previous century it was considered, that pruning has only beneficial effects on the growth of trees and their fruiting. Such a view prevailed during the period, when European horticulture developed under the influence of the art of gardening from the nineteenth-century palace gardens. When in years …
Construction of trees part 2
The growth direction of shoots is regulated by plant hormones (Auxin), which form in growing apical shoots and leaves. They move down the momentum. If the shoots grow intensively, the supply of growth hormones is greater than with weak growth, making, that …
Tree construction, part 1
Before proceeding with the description of cutting fruit trees and shrubs, it is worth recalling the names that have been adopted for a long time.
The cultivated noble varieties of fruit trees are propagated by grafting or budding. A plant, on which cultivars are grafted or inoculated, we call the washer. The washer is the system …
Cutting fruit trees and shrubs
Cutting fruit trees and shrubs is inextricably linked with the rational care of fruit plants. It has several purposes. After planting, trees and shrubs are trimmed, to facilitate their adoption. When transplanting plants from the nursery to the orchard 4/5 root system …