The branch and bud types and growth and fruiting habits of jujube trees are different from those of ordinary fruit trees, so pruning is also unique: the fruiting performance is stable, the growth and fruiting are transformed quickly, and after the jujube head is transformed into jujube rootstock, it has strong continuous fruiting ability, small growth and easy pruning; However, jujube trees are slow to respond to pruning, so they should follow the trend and follow the branches; The amount of pruning should be light, and winter and summer pruning should be combined.

The untrimmed jujube tree is disordered and the yield is unstable. Strengthen comprehensive management, reasonably trim and trim jujube trees, with firm skeleton, reasonable branches, good lighting conditions, balanced growth and fruit, promote young trees to bear fruit early, prolong the bearing year, and improve yield and economic benefits.

The growth and development of four branches and two buds of jujube trees have certain regularity. Branches and buds are interdependent and mutually transformed, and the relationship between old and new is also alternating. The main bud is planted on the top of jujube head and jujube tree rootstock, or on the side between the axils of jujube head leaves. The jujube head and jujube tree rootstock formed after germination are not only different in growth, shape and function. Because of stimulating or changing nutritional conditions, jujube heads and stems can be transformed into each other. After the jujube rootstock is stimulated, the jujube head can be pulled out by pruning, and the fruiting branches can be transformed into growing branches; Early coring of jujube tree head can inhibit the growth of secondary branches, so that jujube tree head can be transformed from growing branches to fruiting branches, and the yield can be obtained in that year. The secondary branches on jujube head are formed by secondary buds, and the main buds between leaf axils can generate new jujube strands in the next year. The interdependence and mutual transformation between growing branches and fruiting branches are the basis of pruning and adjusting branch potential of jujube trees.

Pruning jujube is an important technical measure in jujube cultivation and management, and the effect of increasing production is obvious. However, in some jujube areas, except for "nailing" and pruning dead branches, pruning is no longer carried out, and it is allowed to grow and renew naturally, which affects the yield and economic benefits.

Every fruiting branch of jujube tree can produce fruiting branches every year and form a large number of flower buds. It can also be said that there are flowers when there are branches. After the development branches are formed, they can be transformed into fruiting branches after 1 ~ 2 years of growth. Therefore, when pruning, as long as the backbone branches are well configured and the fruiting branches are well cultivated, flower buds are relatively easy to form, and the phenomenon of fruiting in different years is not as serious as other fruit trees.

The annual growth of jujube rootstocks is only 1 ~ 2 mm, but the continuous fruiting ability can reach 10 years or more. Therefore, jujube rootstocks do not need to prune fruiting branches every year like other fruit trees before aging, that is, they do not need to prune branches of the same age one by one when they need to be updated and pruned. So pruning jujube trees is relatively simple.

Jujube trees have fewer vegetative branches, which can be naturally transformed into fruiting branches. The relationship between growth and fruit is relatively easy to coordinate. When pruning, we should pay attention to the cultivation of skeleton, the distribution of mother branches, the control and adjustment of branch age, and the adjustment of tree length according to the affiliation.

Because jujube has a long life and few natural branches, young branches react slowly to pruning and are not easy to grow branches. Therefore, the shaping time of jujube trees is slower than that of their fruit trees, and it usually takes 7 ~ 8 years to complete the shaping.