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Growing => Fruit => Topic started by: langdon on May 02, 2010, 10:01:32 pm

Title: leader
Post by: langdon on May 02, 2010, 10:01:32 pm
just planted new fruit trees in garden,
one of the trees has a very long leader branch, is it worth pruning back a little?
in fact would it do them all good to prune back the leaders, as i want them to bush out instead
of growing lanky?
any comments will be app.
thanks langdon :farmer:
Title: Re: leader
Post by: Rosemary on May 02, 2010, 10:32:55 pm
What kind of fruit trees? Different species need different pruning.
Title: Re: leader
Post by: langdon on May 04, 2010, 07:36:05 pm
apple- discovery,bramley

pear- doyenne du comice