(1) Key points of pruning young trees

The tree shape commonly used for peach trees is three branches, with the height of seedlings being 60-70cm, and there should be more than five full buds at the position 20-30cm below the incision, and plastic belts should be made. In the first year, choose three scattered main branches, and don't face south; In the second year, choose the first side branch on each main branch; Choose the second branch in the third year. The length of the main branch extension branch is 60 ~ 70 cm every year. In order to increase the branching order, coring can be carried out twice during the growth period. In the growth period, methods such as branch pulling should be used to open the angle, control the vigorous growth and promote early fruiting. Four-year-old trees should cultivate some fruiting branches and fruiting branches on the main branches and side branches. In order to grow fast and bear fruit early, young trees are lightly pruned in winter.

(2) Key points of tree pruning at the first fruit stage

The first fruiting period is usually the third to sixth year after planting. The main task is to continue to cultivate backbone branches, while paying attention to cultivating fruiting branches.

① Pruning the main branch: select the extension branch of the main branch and cut it short. At 50 ~ 60 cm of the extension branch, if there is a good external secondary tip, the part above the secondary tip can be cut off, and the secondary tip can be used as an extension branch, and then the secondary tip can be cut into 1/2. 20 ~ 30 cm can be cut off from the missing branches to cultivate better fruiting branches, and the rest developing branches can be thinned from the base.

(2) Side branch pruning: the selected side branches are pruned with 1/2 of their extended branches, and the competitive branches are thinned to control their growth. The branch of the upper branch cannot be higher than or longer than the branch of the main branch, and always maintains the subordinate relationship.

③ Cultivation of fruiting branch group: The big fruiting branch group mostly adopts vigorous branches, which can be formed in 3 ~ 4 years after short cutting and thinning. Small fruit branches are made of short thick branches and divided into 2 ~ 4 fruit branches. Large, medium and small fruit branches should have branches and extension branches, and the extension direction should be changed constantly, so that the branches will bend upward and grow, and the upper branches will be restrained from being strong and the lower branches will be weak, so as to prevent the branches from being too long and the lower parts from being exposed.

(4) Pruning of fruit branches generally leaves 8 ~ 10 flower buds for long fruit branches, 6 ~ 8 flower buds for middle fruit branches, 3 ~ 4 short nodes for short fruit branches, and the bouqueted fruit branches are only sparse.

(3) Key points of tree pruning in full fruit period

① Pruning of main branches: the extended branches should be guided by strong branches at the early stage of full fruit, and the pruning length is about 30 cm. The opening angle of the secondary tip is used to slow down the tree potential. In the late stage of full fruit, select branches with small angle and strong growth potential to raise the angle or shrink the branches.

(2) Side branch pruning: the lower part is weakened and thinned or retracted into a large branch group. For the lateral branches with growth space, use strong branches first. At this stage, it is still necessary to adjust the master-slave relationship between the main branch and the auxiliary branch. In summer pruning, attention should be paid to controlling vigorous branches, thinning branches and dense branches, and improving ventilation and light transmission conditions.

③ Pruning of fruiting branches: the density between branches can be adjusted by thinning, so that it becomes thinner, weaker and stronger, and the rotation can be renewed. Keep good light. The general requirement is "the sides are arbitrarily long, playing evenly without shadow, arranging the angles and directions, and distinguishing the affiliation."

④ Pruning of fruiting branches: Pruning should be carried out according to the fruiting habits of varieties. For varieties with large fruit shape but deep depression and varieties without pollen, such as Zaofengwang, medium and short fruit branches are better. Therefore, winter pruning is mainly light pruning. First, thinning the upright branches and over-dense branches on the back, and then pruning according to the fruit setting situation and thinning after fruit setting. For long branches, it can also promote some short and medium fruit branches, which will be the main fruit branches next year. Pruning in summer, short branches are promoted by multiple coring. When the tree vigor begins to weaken, it should be retracted in time to promote the growth of strong branches and restore the tree vigor. For varieties with pollen and high fruit setting rate of medium-long fruit branches, they can be shortened according to the length and thickness of fruit branches. Generally, the long fruit branches are cut to 20 ~ 30 cm, the middle fruit branches are cut to 10 ~ 20 cm, and the flower buds with low initial nodes are kept short, and vice versa.

⑤ Adjust the relationship between growth and fruiting: Leave enough spare branches through single branch regeneration and double branch regeneration. Single-branch regeneration and double-branch regeneration should be applied to the same plant at the same time. Generally speaking, young trees should adopt single-branch regeneration, and trees with weak tree potential should adopt double-branch regeneration.

Single branch regeneration: long fruit branches should be lightly cut and lengthened. After the top bears fruit, the branches droop and the bud position at the base rises to produce new branches. When pruning in the second year, it will shrink to new branches. This method is suitable for buds with high nodes or without preparatory branches behind them.

Regeneration of two branches: on the biennial tender branch group, select the upper and lower branches, and leave 7-8 flower buds on the upper long fruit branch to bear fruit; Only 3 ~ 4 buds at the base of the lower branch are left short, so as to produce strong fruiting branches. When pruning in the second year, cut off the upper bearing branches, leave two thick branches at the lower part, and then prune according to the above method.