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Originally Posted by Tobra
You want R Sanford Martin's book, How to prune fruit trees. If you do some looking, you could get it for less than 10 bucks. You will also want the Western Garden book. You can prune fruit trees pretty agressively. Stone fruit grows on 2nd year spurs.
Where are you? Local university's Ag dept should be able to help you out. Go to the library and take notes, photocopy sketches for trees of interest if you can't find this paperback for a reasonable price, maybe call a nursery
http://www.amazon.com/prune-fruit-Robert-Sanford-Martin/dp/B0007EDIVC
For fruit trees, be meticulous in collecting leaf litter, spraying for fungal infections, peach leaf curl, fire blight that sort of thing, with copper sulfate Water deeply and not too frequently, fertilize three times a year around drip line
Have a look at this
http://ucanr.org/repository/view.cfm?article=54129 |
+1 I always break out Martins book when people ask how to prune fruit trees. Excellent resource. Also, don't put anything on a wound. It has the potential of trapping moisture behind it. Proper pruning will promote healing and closure over the cut.