Cutting of trees is necessary procedure for garden. Time of holding this procedure – from October to April. As well as in any business, here too there are rules which need to be observed.
For each fruit or decorative tree there are terms in which it is the best of all to delete unnecessary escapes. For example, on sweet cherry, apricot, cherry or plum which do not differ in high winter hardiness the cutting is carried out in March or even at the end of winter. But, if on the street there is quite low temperature, it is lower than 8 degrees of frost, cutting categorically cannot be carried out. Wood at such weather patterns becomes especially brittle, and the wounds got at scrap badly drag on.
If planting of trees is carried out in the fall, then it is not recommended to cut off tops at young saplings. The winter is difficult period for them, and it is better to postpone this procedure to spring. In the early spring, prior to the beginning of sokodvizheniye, escapes cut off, leaving on them only 3 kidneys. At spring landing of saplings the escapes shorten at once.
Starting cutting of trees, it is necessary to understand what its main objective. It, first of all, forming of krone so that the tree had enough forces to hold harvest. Unproductive branches and also sick, old or broken it is necessary to delete that they did not prevent healthy branches to develop that did not shade sunlight and gave the chance to air to circulate in krone. Besides, cutting of escapes allows to form krone at that height what will be more convenient for harvesting.
The rejuvenating cutting of branches is also necessary for tree. It allows to develop to stronger young escapes while old branches have already sputtered out. Such cutting is carried out only on trees with healthy shtamb on which skeletal branches are well developed. If the tree rather big and adult, rejuvenescence is carried out in stages. In the first year carry out sanitary cutting, deleting the broken or sick branches. For the second year delete part of old escapes, and for the third year finish cutting, deleting all other old branches.
If so it happened that in the winter the young sapling has rather seriously frozen slightly, it is cut off so that there was only healthy part. Further the krone on it is formed of the strongest escapes which are successfully located on shtamba.