Apple-tree — sort of deciduous trees with branchy krone 2.5 — 15 m high with spherical sweet or sweet-sour fruits. The size of fruits depending on look can be about pea or have 15 cm diameter. Many species of apple-tree grow up as ornamental plants in gardens and parks, use in field-protecting afforestation. All types — good melliferous herbs. Wood at apple-tree dense, strong, is easily cut and well polished; it is suitable for turning and joiner's products, small hand-made articles.
It is required to you
- To cut apple-trees it is required to you:
- - garden folding ladder (step-ladder);
- - garden hacksaw;
- - secateurs;
- - oil paint;
- - brush.
Instruction
1. To certain age of apple-tree strongly expand. Branches become long and begin to bend to the earth at abundant fructification. Behind krone of apple-trees the permanent care is necessary, it it is necessary periodically, at least once in three years to saw round and tonsure. If you have apple-tree very old that nothing terrible, it can absolutely really be turned into young and fructifying. Do not cut down apple-tree at all, their age is almost boundless at appropriate care. For subhairstyle of apple-tree choose fall when you have reaped from it crop, and she will have a rest the next year as apple-trees bear fruits of times in 2 years. So, start forming of krone. Look what krone you want to make to apple-tree – spherical or located in certain plane. Look round, plan what branches it is necessary to saw round. Choose the thickest knots from which branches about 5 centimeters thick depart. Put step-ladder, rise upward and begin hairstyle.
2. Saw round branches on the one hand, then saw round on the other hand, so that height was approximately identical. The lower branches which have absolutely fallen to the earth need to be removed completely. Now take some paint, it is desirable oil and paint over each branch cut by you on the place of saw cut. It needs to be made in order that in the spring when the apple-tree wakes up after winter and the sokodvizheniye will begin, to close the vessels located in branches. If not to paint over branch, then in tree pathogenic bacteria and microorganisms can get. Juice will drip besides.
3. Small knots, up to 1 cm thick, cut secateurs. They can be not painted over paint as they small and the cut itself will grow. The next year you will see that the apple-tree will begin to start up huge number of small branches in different parts of the thick branches and its krone will become young and fructifying again.