How to cut off sweet cherry

How to cut off sweet cherry

Sweet cherry is grown up only because of its tastes. In its fruits there are about 18% of sugar, apple, lemon, wine and dairy acids and other substances, useful to human body, and connection. Sweet cherry can grow to 20 meters in height. That it has not occurred, very important correctly and in due time to do cutting of tree at the initial stages of its growth.

Instruction

1. Examine attentively planted sapling. Pick up garden secateurs and accurately truncate stalk. Be attentive and do cut over kidney, but not under it. Notice: the more you will make shortening, the more there will be the general gain on this tree.

2. Pay attention that it is not recommended to cut off skeletal branches close to trunk as it leads to emergence of hollow. But also it is impossible to leave too long stumps too because they rot and complicate growth and development of the remained branches.

3. Leave untouched on the lower tier five skeletal branches, on the second tier leave three branches, and on the third – only two. You watch that the distance between all tiers was about 80 centimeters.

4. Remove all leaves in zone of shtamb. It needs to be done in the summer in order that the tree did not begin to spend all the force for formation of new escapes. If the sapling is underdeveloped, then it is possible to leave in this zone of kidney which will allow sapling to take root quicker.

5. Do all cuts during the spring period as at this particular time wounds are capable to heal quickly. Protect cut which diameter is equal from 1 to 3 centimeters and more by means of garden knife and process the garden thief.

6. Do not leave unbranched sapling too long. Shorten the coeval at the height of 50 or 60 centimeters. If cut to make much higher than sixty centimeters, then in year the new escapes will appear on 1.5 m above the ground that extremely inconveniently for harvesting.

7. Do not shorten strongly one-year branches as it leads to more active growth of all krone therefore there is tightening, and even lack of process of fructification.

Author: «MirrorInfo» Dream Team


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