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<blockquote data-quote="Nesikep" data-source="post: 608984" data-attributes="member: 9096"><p>you can trim them a lot!, I pruned an orchard once that hadn't been done in years.. i have pictures of before and after, and there's a drastic differance (you can see through the tree)</p><p></p><p>for pruning, we never had to cut anything bigger than what shears could handle...</p><p></p><p>you want the tree to have space between it's limbs, and to fill in blank areas, when you prune a branch that you're intending to keep, look at which direction the buds are facing, the bud will become a branch, and will grow in the direction it's facing, A rule of thumb we used was keep 3 buds on a branch if you're just trimming it back, and you can go with a bud more or less depending on what you need to find one that faces the right direction. Pretty much anything that was growing straight up got cut since we wanted to be able to reach the top of the trees somehow.</p><p></p><p></p><p>Hope that helps somewhat.. if I stumble upon the pictures, i'll scan them and post them, but don't hold your breath for that</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Nesikep, post: 608984, member: 9096"] you can trim them a lot!, I pruned an orchard once that hadn't been done in years.. i have pictures of before and after, and there's a drastic differance (you can see through the tree) for pruning, we never had to cut anything bigger than what shears could handle... you want the tree to have space between it's limbs, and to fill in blank areas, when you prune a branch that you're intending to keep, look at which direction the buds are facing, the bud will become a branch, and will grow in the direction it's facing, A rule of thumb we used was keep 3 buds on a branch if you're just trimming it back, and you can go with a bud more or less depending on what you need to find one that faces the right direction. Pretty much anything that was growing straight up got cut since we wanted to be able to reach the top of the trees somehow. Hope that helps somewhat.. if I stumble upon the pictures, i'll scan them and post them, but don't hold your breath for that [/QUOTE]
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