Pruning A Pear Tree

[@donnaweeks1311]

This video has been a tree saver for me. Recently moved from AL to Texas and have a pear tree that needs a lot of tlc. Lots of wonderful information and guidance. Thank you so much.

[@MikeDial]

This video was helpful to me. I'm pruning a pear in the back yard right now. It's still a young tree, so now I can train it right.

[@garytitus8298]

First video that actually helped me understand the how and why of pruning. Thanks!

[@michaeldougfir9807]

It's nice to see Extension guys on the Web. Thanks for the pruning instruction. One thing I would like to submit is, when those adventitious buds break and start forming fill-in branches, they will be weakly attached. True, they can do with some training. but it will take 3 to 5 years for them to legitimize. So they need very gentle handling. Also, I inform my pruning customers that with less tree they will get less fruit for a few seasons. But less fruit usually means higher quality fruit. So it's a good tradeoff.

[@wpelfeta]

My pear tree refuses to grow outwards. It just keeps growing up and up and straight. Thanks to this video I finally learned how to get them to grow out! You have to cut where the buds are facing out! Why didn't I think of that before.

[@seedaholicgardens9085]

It looks so much better and healthier, ty for posting.

[@lovemagicandroad]

It looks naked...lol. We have pear tree, totally overgrown, thick with branches, but produces a ton of delicious pears, every year.

[@Richard-zc1cj]

I was wondering if you should cut the top of the central leader to keep it from growing 40 ft tall?

[@larcat3148]

Don't they have hand tree saws anymore over there :-)

[@petermcfadden9426]

Thanks from Wales, UK. Plenty of useful information,

[@ronaldhermance1623]

I have been taught to cut slightly above the branch collar so that it will heal.

[@Zinkevm1]

Excellent video, THANK YOU!!! I have been searching forever to find out how to prune my pear tree and every time I found something I would need to know what type of pear tree it was. Thank you, Thank you, Thank you!!!

[@markroeder2491]

I was hoping for a follow up also. If you have the time, it would be great to see how the tree did. Thanks

[@andrewsmyth6027]

i would do a course on chainsaw maintenance if i was you guys

[@sharonmarxmiller1811]

I sure have lots of work ahead of me. My pear tree needs major trimming. Thanks.

[@scootin123]

Wow that is a terrific microphone. The quest is holding it 5 feet away from you and I can clearly hear you

[@steveandrews8301]

Great video! I have a totally out of control, approx. 40 ft. tall, huge, jammed together water sprouts filled tree, that has been producing less and less fruit over the last 10 years till it's hardly producing any, now. I should have pruned it like this years ago. Thank you!

[@tomnesheim8817]

It would have been nice to show the overall height of the tree.

[@mrpush2532]

Somebody pit a little to much oil in the mix! Lol!

[@lovemagicandroad]

Can you trim it once it’s blooming in spring?

[@lovemagicandroad]

Love your accents!

[@jisa39]

Jesus, what a smoking chainsaw

[@Richard-zc1cj]

Looks like he has too much oil with the gas. Also that's a awful dull blade on that chainsaw

[@jisa39]

@@Richard-zc1cj I don't know if he's pruning or fumigating

[@fisherman7510]

Did you prune too much in this video? Any followup video on this same tree?

[@arthurdewith7608]

Fisher Man these upright and narrow angled branch's should have been removed in years 2 3 4 small cuts rapid healing part wood rots fast branches at 55 and 45 are ideal for fruiting volume difficult find picker yo claims a thirty foot ladder

[@jarrodlambert3914]

Nice

[@michaels7858]

Great information, thank you so much

[@terdahurtles]

Good vid
Thanks for posting it.

[@patrapper7367]

Would love to see the tree here in 2021

[@fullcastcrown]

Is the fall also a good time to prune or should you wait till spring

[@richardtappe6102]

Late fall, or early winter is the better time to prune your fruit tree.

[@imnotcrazy4456]

@@richardtappe6102 when the pear tree is dormant

[@garytitus8298]

Can I apply these same techniques to my peach and nectarine trees?

[@adamhuett9128]

Stone fruits have a specific time of year for pruning to avoid tree wounds from becoming infected. As a whole, stone fruits aren't as hardy as apples and pears and need extra attention with most tree maintenance

[@johns2453]

how do you mix your gas...200 -1

[@richardtappe6102]

Ha! That's a good one! Poohie!

[@sapulpaorganics5402]

Think he is burning more oil than gas!

[@johns2453]

foul them plugs

[@mikebetts2046]

Panzer Blitz, yeah! Looks like he did 50:50 when it should have been 40:1 or similar! Cut wood in the summer and also drive mosquitos away as a side benefit.

[@beebob1279]

Smoky and dull.

[@cruz1742]

The saw created a lot of pollution

[@FalloutSiimsMCYo]

I eat pears.

[@RANGISROTTENHANGIS]

hope you have a decent chainsaw now-days!!

[@fulqwvr]

It looks pathetic when you finished.

[@marklam8548]

You are right ...So many of those water sprouts ( maybe half ) could have been stubbed off to grow a few fruit spurs on , or bend them downward an tie a few down to cause more bud growth and the tree won't expend to much energy into more sprouts that might need cut off again next year...👍

[@woodyw2521]

Guys...wear protective eyewear....PLEASE...set a good safe example

[@lisawhitaker8709]

thanks for helpful information... Taking chances cutting at head level without PPE...someone at Tallapoosa Ext should edit this video to have a text notice: "TCE does not recommend use of power tool without appropriate...blah, blah, blah" because there IS a fool out there who will follow this lead exactly and sue to pay for their stitches, glass eye and/or hearing aid.

[@michaeldougfir9807]

Lisa Whitaker: This is from Lisa? I thought it was from SAFETY SALLY!

[@twowheelblackbetty]

Michael Dougfir Safety Sally is my super hero name. my super power is reminding entry level landscapers and horticulturalists of their most basic safety lessons and disabusing the untrained of whatever I can of their ignorance. not having face scars and/or glass eye(s) is worth a few minutes of prep and keeping one's brain turned on...but that's just me.

[@jphickory522]

Whatever…. So tired of the people that always feel the need to critique others about safety. Grow up

[@bwd1963]

Good for smoking meat🥰

[@johns2453]

you aint gonna be eating pears this year..you fuckin butchered it

[@richardtappe6102]

No, No, No. He did fine. You need to severely cut back a fruit bearing tree to not only prevent limb-breakage, but to also produce an abundant fruit crop.