How to prune peach trees? What are the pruning techniques for peach trees? ()

Peach trees are native to China and can be planted in all provinces and regions. Peach trees have a wide range of adaptability and belong to small deciduous trees.

However, as a cash crop, peach trees have higher growth requirements. We must ensure the growth and fruit of peach trees, which requires us to prune them reasonably.

So, how should peach trees be pruned? What are the pruning techniques for peach trees?

Pruning peach trees in winter and summer:

In fact, the methods of fruit tree pruning are generally similar, and peach tree pruning technology also needs pruning in winter and summer.

Winter: The period when deciduous fruit trees or ornamental trees shed their leaves from late autumn to early winter and germinate in the following spring, or when evergreen trees stop growing in winter. This kind of pruning is called winter pruning or dormancy pruning, which is an important pruning period in production. For a big orchard, young trees should be pruned first all winter.

Summer: In addition to the time of winter pruning, pruning from spring to autumn is called summer pruning, also known as leaf pruning.

Theoretically speaking, it is more accurate and reasonable to adjust light, fruit load and shoot density. However, due to the shortage of labor force in orchards in summer, it is difficult to guarantee the timeliness of pruning in summer, and it is even easy to be ignored.

Pruning methods of peach trees:

Short cut: also known as short cut, that is, cut off a part of the annual branches of/kloc-0. If you cut too much, it will be called short cut, and if you cut too little, it will be called light short cut and medium short cut.

The characteristic of short cutting is that it greatly stimulates the buds under the cutting mouth. After short cutting, the germination ability of branches is improved and the branch forming ability is enhanced, which has the effect of medium and short cutting.

Short cutting can weaken the thickening of mother branches.

Thinning: thinning from the base 1 annual or perennial branches.

When the thinning branch is weak, the above effect is not obvious at the pruning position, but it still promotes the growth of the whole tree as a whole.

Shrinking branches: it promotes the growth of branch tips and the germination of latent buds at the back of incision, while weakening the mother branches.

Pruning arrangement of peach trees:

Pruning is not only using scissors, but also a lot, and so is peach tree pruning technology.

Long planting: 1 year-old branches are not pruned, and some branches are selectively planted when pruning, which can promote more fruiting branches or fruiting parts. Young trees should be used more and long branches should be used as auxiliary branches.

Branch pulling: use a rope to widen the angle of branches, fix one end of the rope on the ground or a tree, or use a wooden stick to open the angle of branches, or use a heavy object to drop branches.

Branching: For 1 year-old branches, bend down gradually from the base by hand, try not to damage the xylem without breaking it, so that the branches are naturally horizontal or the tips are slightly downward.

When the branches are picked at the turn of spring and summer and the branches are semi-lignified, it is convenient to operate, open the angle, weaken the effect of vigorous growth of branches, and is also conducive to flower bud differentiation and rapid formation of fruiting branches.

Benefits of peach tree pruning:

After editing the peach tree pruning technology, let's learn about the benefits of peach tree pruning.

For fruit trees and ornamental trees, the main purpose of pruning young trees is to shape a tree shape, which is called shaping. The main purpose of pruning adult trees is to maintain the tree shape to obtain high quality and high yield, while the main purpose of pruning old trees is to restore the tree shape to maintain the largest volume as possible and prolong the fruiting period.

Proper pruning of peach trees can ensure the growth momentum, improve the fruit setting rate and realize the increase of production and income.

The above are the peach tree pruning techniques introduced by Bian Xiao, hoping to help you.