Where to prune 1 year old mango tree?
figsinhawaii
7 years ago
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Comments (5)I believe beginners are usually best served to remove only all branches that exceed 1/2 the diameter of the trunk at these branches point of attachment to the trunk and otherwise let the tree grow until it begins to bear fruit. That and broken and rubbing branches. Only certain varieties that do not willingly produce adequate secondary branching are likely to benefit from heading back and in this case it's best to do the heading cuts in annual wood (wood that grew the previous year) after trees have begun to leaf out in mid spring. This is more likely to generate usable secondary branches as I understand it. For the most vigorous varietes, like Fuji and Gala removing all branches exceeding 1/3 the diameter of the trunk is the best way to construct a well balanced, productive and early fruiting tree. Excessively diametered branches always take longer to fruit and require more space to be fruitful because of their greater access to the root system. Kindof like the difference between standard trees and dwarfs, but on a branch. They are also prone to making weak unions to the trunk that can break when they come into bearing. My recommendatins here are based on managing trees that are grafted on rootstocks at least as vigorous as M7 (semi-dwarf). I first learned of the ratio method almost 20 years ago in an article written by Bas van den Ende in Pomona who at the time was managing thousands of commercial acres of pears and apples in the northwest (he's in Australia now and is a very famous orchard consultant). As I understand it, the practice of automatically heading back branches of establishing trees on most varieties has been abandoned for some time by expert orchard managers. B. van dan Ende wrote a very interesting article about managing fruiting wood on pears in this months Good Fruit Grower magazine if anyones interested.....See More1.5 year old citrus tree turning brown
Comments (3)not sure if its pest related. probably just frost damage. prune them off and keep an eye on it. we had a hard freeze two winters ago and had a lot of die back on my inground citrus....See MoreRoot Pruning mango trees
Comments (10)Hi Nanci, I emailed Jay regarding this and he told me that he dissagreed with Al's root pruning time frames. I am just going to hold out until it becomes necessary. I cannot believe that a mango tree would lose it's vigor after one short year. Now that I think about it, I believe he was talking in general terms. I have that Atualfo seedling that I am going to experiment with today. It needs a larger pot and I am going to try and remove about half of the tap root and see what happens. Hi Ashley, I have tried posting to some of those other forums before. I even emailed Al and both ways got me no where. No one answered my post on the fig forum, and container forum, and Al didn't answer my email. I emailed him about Fig varieties and he ignored it. Sad to say but I have found that on some of those forums, if your not a "regular" poster there, they tend to not answer you. Hey Mango kush, I actually wouldn't mind if you sent me some mango seeds of varieties that you find to be superior. I have one seedling that I hope will bear fruit before I am an old man! I also really would like to try my hands at grafing mango seedlings. I really like the Maha Chinook mango, and I would like a second tree but it would be much nicer if I could try grafting it myself. Now I know that Harry has found it to be challenging but it would still be an awesome journey and hopefully some day I will get one to take! Andrew...See More1 year old lemon tree
Comments (1)What is the purpose of removing all the leaves, or cutting it back?...See Morefigsinhawaii
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