I love Raintree Nursery. My yard is FULL of their wonderful fruit trees, berries, grapes, etc. I buy from them every year and we now have quite the food forrest.
I’ve been gardening for a few years and watched tons of pruning videos on TH-cam. This was, without a doubt, the best well explained and informative pruning video for new fruit trees! Please make more for second and third years trees! Vining plants, bushing plants and so on!!!!
Hi! I purchased a 5-in-1 "Fruit Salad" tree (actually got 6 varieties! Peach, nectarine, 2 apricots, plum, plum/cherry hybrid) but now I realize I'm not sure how to prune when each branch is a single grafted variety. I took the top a little bit back so it matched the root ball, but some varieties/branches are significantly slimmer than others, the crotch angles might be very narrow or too horizontal, etc. yet I can't just remove scaffolding branches because then I just took away a whole graft. Any advice? I planned on letting it grow this year, then staking/supporting branches this winter and next spring as needed to see if I can get the crotch angles corrected. And pruning as I can as I go along. (I've looked for videos specifically about the combo grafted trees on your channel and didn't find any, so please correct me if I missed them!)
Great video. I need to be more aggressive in my pruning. Thanks. What a great team.
I love Raintree Nursery. My yard is FULL of their wonderful fruit trees, berries, grapes, etc. I buy from them every year and we now have quite the food forrest.
I’ve been gardening for a few years and watched tons of pruning videos on TH-cam. This was, without a doubt, the best well explained and informative pruning video for new fruit trees! Please make more for second and third years trees! Vining plants, bushing plants and so on!!!!
This is far and away the most helpful video you’ve done, thank you!
Great video.
Especially with someone that has been with company for over 30 years. Great!!!! Pleas keep up the good work. I love Raintree!
Great Video, if you wanted an open vase tree would you remove central leader after a couple years?
Hi! I purchased a 5-in-1 "Fruit Salad" tree (actually got 6 varieties! Peach, nectarine, 2 apricots, plum, plum/cherry hybrid) but now I realize I'm not sure how to prune when each branch is a single grafted variety. I took the top a little bit back so it matched the root ball, but some varieties/branches are significantly slimmer than others, the crotch angles might be very narrow or too horizontal, etc. yet I can't just remove scaffolding branches because then I just took away a whole graft. Any advice?
I planned on letting it grow this year, then staking/supporting branches this winter and next spring as needed to see if I can get the crotch angles corrected. And pruning as I can as I go along.
(I've looked for videos specifically about the combo grafted trees on your channel and didn't find any, so please correct me if I missed them!)
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Peach trees bloom and fruit on second year wood, so prune accordingly in subsequent years.
If you don't do this upon planting, can you prune like this now after the tree is leafed out?
Absolutely!
What, no open center trees?
First year pruning is to establish strong roots, which is why central leader should never be removed first year.