Describe in detail the pruning that you would do for each of the following: tree with multiple leaders and many scaffold branches

What will be an ideal response?


Remove the weaker of the leaders to leave just one main leader. Remove weaker scaffold branches so that the remaining branches are spaced widely and evenly around and up and down the trunk.

tree with branches that are crossing and rubbing

Remove the weaker or more poorly positioned of the crossing branches.

tree with many weak vertical shoots growing from the trunk and scaffold branches

Remove these vertical shoots at their point of origin leaving only the main scaffold branches

a tree with limbs that are too low

Remove one or two of these limbs per year after the tree has been planted for 3-4 years

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