Wow, what an excellent video. It was very informative. You answered all the questions I had. Thank you so much for taking the time to make and post this video.
Good to get that information about the apricots. I have a tree that's about 3/4 rootstock as shoots were allowed to grow from below the graft. After taking much of that growth away in Winter, it's all just grown back with a vengeance and the actual tree has done very little. So I'm itching to completely remove the rootstock section as soon as possible.
Thanks so much for this video! I've moved into a rental with a couple of tall plum and nectarine trees that clearly haven't been looked after in such a way for years, if ever. Now I know what to do to cut them down and help them regain better health as well as produce bigger/better fruit next season. The plum trees themselves have grown so tall and clearly haven't been pruned for years that the fruit are many (covering my ground as we speak) but about the size of a large grape. The birds are loving them, though! XD
Videos of Gardening Australia don’t seem to include automatic closed captioning which would tremendously help people like me. Please consider adding this feature for future videos. THANKS!!!
Only problem is pruning trees end of Feb or March, they just grow back what you cut off before winter. You need to hold back end of Winter and wait till the next year, but you do get more fruit. Winter probably just do a light clean up.
Hey Tino I have a huge mature cherry plum tree on apricot rootstock. It fruits heavily with sweet red fruit but it's too high and impossible to manage or net. How hard and far can I cut this back - I want to get it back to under 2.5m ? The main branches are up to 100mm diameter.
You can bring the height down, but if you do cut it down and it's a lot of fruit buds off the tree, you would want to bac seal paint the cut, and prune as little as you can thereafter since you have already made major cuts.
The vast majority of fruits shouldn't be grown from seeds. After 6-10 years you will regret it. Some fruits and varieties come true to the type but the majority are disappointing. Never advise others to do that. And that's a shadehouse, not a greenhouse. Yes, they are different.
Tino, thank you for identifying the fruiting spurs. Great pruning tips too.
Glad it was helpful!
Wow, what an excellent video. It was very informative. You answered all the questions I had. Thank you so much for taking the time to make and post this video.
Good to get that information about the apricots. I have a tree that's about 3/4 rootstock as shoots were allowed to grow from below the graft. After taking much of that growth away in Winter, it's all just grown back with a vengeance and the actual tree has done very little. So I'm itching to completely remove the rootstock section as soon as possible.
Thanks so much for this video! I've moved into a rental with a couple of tall plum and nectarine trees that clearly haven't been looked after in such a way for years, if ever. Now I know what to do to cut them down and help them regain better health as well as produce bigger/better fruit next season. The plum trees themselves have grown so tall and clearly haven't been pruned for years that the fruit are many (covering my ground as we speak) but about the size of a large grape. The birds are loving them, though! XD
Great help! Thanks
Videos of Gardening Australia don’t seem to include automatic closed captioning which would tremendously help people like me. Please consider adding this feature for future videos. THANKS!!!
Yes, apologies our current videos don't have closed captions. Hoping to implement them on new videos from March this year.
Thanks and I found your videos very helpful and educational. Look forward to more in cc!
Very informative vid thanks mate, your trees look very healthy, a credit to your connection to the earth.. Well done, thanks...
Regards D
Awesome work! very informative, Are you able to do a segment on two way grafted trees? or multiple? Thank you :)
Thank you for the video :)
Just wondering can I prune in winter?
Beautiful
Thank you very much, now i know to be bold!!!!
I have a fig tree, could you show how can I prune? Thanks 🙏🏻
Are suckers always the result if root damage, or could they also be from too much water?
Only problem is pruning trees end of Feb or March, they just grow back what you cut off before winter. You need to hold back end of Winter and wait till the next year, but you do get more fruit. Winter probably just do a light clean up.
Very interesting information, I am doing farming in Pakistan samll level
is plum included in the group of stone fruit trees? you didn't mention plum at 6:15
Yes it is, plum is Prunus spp., the tree Tino pruned in demonstration.
Hey Tino
I have a huge mature cherry plum tree on apricot rootstock. It fruits heavily with sweet red fruit but it's too high and impossible to manage or net. How hard and far can I cut this back - I want to get it back to under 2.5m ? The main branches are up to 100mm diameter.
You can bring the height down, but if you do cut it down and it's a lot of fruit buds off the tree, you would want to bac seal paint the cut, and prune as little as you can thereafter since you have already made major cuts.
Gardening Australia
Pretty sure you can prune your family tree. It's just illegal most places.
The vast majority of fruits shouldn't be grown from seeds. After 6-10 years you will regret it. Some fruits and varieties come true to the type but the majority are disappointing. Never advise others to do that.
And that's a shadehouse, not a greenhouse. Yes, they are different.
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