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<blockquote data-quote="Jogeephus" data-source="post: 608879" data-attributes="member: 4362"><p>There are several sizes of trees. Standard, semi-dwarf, dwarf and super dwarf. Sounds like you have a standard root stock so topping them is questionable. There are some cupped fruit picking baskets you can put on a long stick that will help you with the high picking. So from a scientific view, putting salve or paste on pruned limbs is not neccessary since there are millions of spores in the air and infection can take place before you ever get the tar on it. Tar is more of a mental salve than anything else. Biggest thing on pruning is to dip your shears in alcohol after each and every cut cause you don't want to spread any disease from tree to tree. Particularly fire blight.</p><p></p><p>To me, if the trees are bearing good sized fruit and in ample numbers I wouldn't do anything to them other than some thinning of the crowded limbs. If it ain't broke don't fix it.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Jogeephus, post: 608879, member: 4362"] There are several sizes of trees. Standard, semi-dwarf, dwarf and super dwarf. Sounds like you have a standard root stock so topping them is questionable. There are some cupped fruit picking baskets you can put on a long stick that will help you with the high picking. So from a scientific view, putting salve or paste on pruned limbs is not neccessary since there are millions of spores in the air and infection can take place before you ever get the tar on it. Tar is more of a mental salve than anything else. Biggest thing on pruning is to dip your shears in alcohol after each and every cut cause you don't want to spread any disease from tree to tree. Particularly fire blight. To me, if the trees are bearing good sized fruit and in ample numbers I wouldn't do anything to them other than some thinning of the crowded limbs. If it ain't broke don't fix it. [/QUOTE]
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