Now Is the Best Time to Prune Fruit Trees for Better Fruit This Summer — Here's How

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With some plants, pruning is optional.

This isnottrue of many fruit trees.

Proper pruning stimulates fruit trees to bear fruit.

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Learn why, when, and how to prune fruit trees.

A few main limbs will eventually form the framework of the tree.

These are called the “scaffold” limbs.

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The smaller branches stemming off of the scaffold limbs are called “lateral” branches.

“Modified central leader training” is a compromise between the two.

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