Month: December 2017

Keeping apple and pear trees in a spindle form

The spindle shape can be compared to a Christmas tree. The tree has a vertical conductor tied to a stake or horizontal wires. Small boughs are placed horizontally around the guide. The lower limbs are longer, upper shorter. …

Running apple and pear trees in the form of a free line

While forming a free line crown, we try to obtain a guide, on which horizontal branches are embedded, facing two opposite sides in the plane of the row. Form the lowest branches at a distance of approx 0,5 m from the ground, …

Pruning trees after forming

Nearly natural trees require more pruning when they reach 7-10 years of age. From now on, crowns need to be intensively x-rayed, and regulate their height and diameter.

Forming an almost natural crown, we obtain a conductor z …

Keeping apple and pear trees in an almost natural form

Forming an almost natural crown is based on correcting the natural growth of the tree due to poor cutting and bending of the shoots. Forming an almost natural crown, we try to derive the guide, around which there are 10-15 branches. Branches should …

We currently recommend various forms of crowns for apple and pear trees planted in production orchards, namely: almost natural, free and spindle line.

An almost natural crown is well known to us, because most of the trees in the existing intensive orchards have this form. …

A little knowledge is required for efficient cutting and forming, and more experience acquired. A worker who is not trained to cut wastes a lot of time meditating, before he decides, which branches should be removed, and which to leave. An experienced worker notices the branches to be cut on …

The scarcity of manpower makes, that the cutting technique is becoming less and less important. Cutting with a knife, which does not crush the shoots and gives smooth wounds, it is done only occasionally when forming young trees. If we shorten the annual shoots above a specific bud with a knife or pruner …

Mechanical cutting devices are quite popular in American and Italian orchards. These are machines driven by a tractor or self-propelled machines with a movable arm with rotating circular saws mounted on it.. The hydraulically controlled arm can be set at any angle and …

Secateurs are used to cut fruit trees and shrubs, balls and knives. Secateurs are most versatile. We divide them into: handmade, ambidextrous, pole and pneumatic. Hand secateurs can be single-edged or double-edged, and single-blade secateurs can have a flat shear or knife bar. …

We distinguish between winter cutting and summer cutting. In Poland, only winter cutting is commonly performed. In small orchards, you can start cutting in the early spring, in February or March and finish in April. This is the most suitable period for apple pruning, pear trees and …

Apple trees, pear trees, plum trees, cherries, apricots and peaches require regular pruning every year after they enter the fruiting period. Annual pruning begins when the trees are of age 5-8 lat. They are used in fruiting orchards 4 main cutting systems.
X-ray cut

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