The honeysuckle is early and skoroplodny culture which represents dense bush with dense krone. It is extremely unpretentious culture and differs in high frost resistance. Cutting of plants is distinguished from all actions for care for honeysuckle.
The honeysuckle is planted in the spring, in the fall and even in the summer. She very quickly takes root. Just planted bushes do not demand any cutting. For the next season it will be possible to truncate a few weak escapes to stronger kidneys. In general the honeysuckle is not cut off within the first seven years after landing. At this time it grows, and cutting can lead to big yield loss. Therefore for this period delete only small polegayushchy branches and strongly damaged branches.
Need for the regular rejuvenating cutting of honeysuckle appears for 8-10 after its landing on personal plot. For this purpose the best time is the fall when have fallen down all leaves and it is well visible all structure of bush. Honeysuckle branches very firm therefore it is necessary to use only the ground secateurs.
On each bush of this plant there can be from 5 to 15 skeletal branches. Each of them is considered separately and shorten the growing old tops. They are cut off to young and strong branchings age by no more than five years. It is the best of all if these young shoots are located in the middle of skeletal branches. Then it is necessary to cut off not to the basis and there will be no big yield loss. All branch will pass to young branching, and the bush will be formed in a new way. Such detailed cutting is carried out once in three years.
If on your site old bushes of honeysuckle age grow more than 20 years, then arrange them late fall the rejuvenating cutting. For this purpose completely cut off all bush, leaving branches of maximum height of 40 cm from soil level. Lower cutting can ruin plant. In the first year after it on old bushes of honeysuckle more than 30 new escapes up to 50 cm long are formed. And for the second year the first harvest of large berries will appear. For the third year the updated bush is thinned out and leave no more than 15 strong skeletal branches.
At the correct cutting on one place the bushes of honeysuckle can grow and fructify up to 30 years.