Wild Cherry Tree Pollard: Year 2 Update & Prune
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- Опубліковано 18 лют 2022
- Almost 2 years ago to the day I pollarded a wild cherry tree to bring what had been a +20-foot tree down to backyard orchard height. It took time for the tree to recover from the severing pruning that occurred so last year was the first year we were able to watch it grow.
And grow it did! As you'll see in the video it put on a big growth spurt and filled out wonderfully. Now is the time then to harness that growth and prune it to keep it appropriately sized for the backyard.
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Wondering how the tree is doing. Hoping to see an updated.
I could certainly do one. The tree is doing awesome though. I try to stay on top of the pruning but even so it wants to grow like a weed. And it flowered this year for the first time since the pollarding!
Thanks for the guide. I’m contemplating growing Prunus Avium and whilst I have a large ish garden I don’t want it to get somewhere between 12-15 metres tall (40 to 50 feet tall).
Love it! I have a lot of cherry around me here and with livestock not that great of a tree to have around, but the wood and few cherry's are useful! Great vid as it helps me with my pollard/coppice decisions here.
Good luck! My darn tree continues to grow like a weed. I'll be giving it a new pruning soon to shape it better and keep it contained. I can see it easily attaining its previous heights if I left it to its own devices
@@HomesteadDIY That is great to hear! I guess my wild cherry trees will be getting a bit of a challenge this Winter/Spring. I have mulberry, black walnut, silver maples and wild cherries here predominantly besides the willow, hazel I brought in. Everything seems to respond well to coppice or pollard, yet the black walnut are touch and go even if I don't cut them at all. So a busy time of year and I want to hibernate.
Wow, looks like it recovered quite well from the pollarding. My yard's loaded with wild cherry trees, and I've never seen an actual cherry on any of them.
I can tell you its off the charts this year with growth. No cherries yet, but its ridiculously lush with greenery. I'm thinking my heavy winter pruning really triggered the growth hormones.
@@HomesteadDIY 1 year in 30, I actually saw and harvested peaches on my peach tree. I was just finding pits on the ground. Prolific birds/squirrels/chipmunks. So that said, either my wild cherry trees don't produce, or the critters are eating them before any sign of fruit is visible to me. I do find wild blueberries and raspberries before they get them all.
Best wishes for your pollarding experiment, as it looks like it's going well.
Where are you located? Zone? I'm planting my first cherry trees this Spring
Northern NJ just outside of NYC in zone 7a
7A here too but in southern MD. Thanks!
This poor tree. Slowly rotting to death as you document your giggles and hacking. Very sad.
Seek help.