Pruning pistachio is mainly carried out in spring and summer. At this time, the temperature and humidity are suitable for wound healing, and it is also the vigorous growth period of plants, which can quickly restore the previous growth.

Prune the branches and leaves of pistachio

Pistachios need pruning in spring and summer. Pruning is to cut off too dense branches and leaves, which is beneficial to ventilation and prevention of pests and diseases. Short cutting or thinning is needed to control the crown, increase ventilation and light transmission, reduce the incidence of pests and diseases, and be beneficial to flowering and fruiting.

In the infancy of popular fruit trees, pruning mainly focuses on shaping, that is, shaping pruning, which elongates too short branches, cuts off too many branches, and prunes off bent and overlapping branches, so that the crown of fruit trees forms a fluffy, wide, ventilated and light-transmitting crown shape and improves the quality of fruits.

Pruning skills of pistachio

Pistacia vera will grow a lot of branches in the growth process, so it is necessary to cut off its branchlets at an appropriate time, leave large stems to promote the growth of lateral branches, and trim the dwarfed Pistacia vera regularly for management and growth, and at the same time, the whole is more beautiful.

Pistachios prune and grow rapidly.

Pruning of adult fruit trees is mainly carried out in spring and summer. The vertical branches on the crown of the tree are pruned, the branches that are overgrown are pruned, the height of the plant is controlled, and overlapping, crossing and transverse branches are pruned to ensure the transparency of the crown and avoid the waste of nutrients.

Pruning and flowering of pistachio

People's heart fruit trees should be harvested many times a year. After each harvest, they should be pruned comprehensively to cut off the remaining fruit stalks, old branches and weak branches lacking nutrition, and shorten the fruiting branches appropriately to restore their vitality and prepare for the next flowering and fruiting.

Pruning pistachio branches

Select 1-2-year-old stout branches from the branches cut from pistachio. First, dig a ditch 5-8 cm deep near the plants to be laminated. Then, after the branches are cut off, they are pressed at the bottom of the ditch, fixed with iron hooks or wooden strips, covered with soil and compacted to keep the soil moist and facilitate germination.

Matters needing attention in pruning pistachio

If the branches of pistachio are found to have diseases and insect pests on the crown, then it is not necessary to choose the right time and prune them as soon as possible after the branches of pistachio are found.

After taking it out, it is burned centrally and the plant wound is disinfected. The whole plant is sprayed with corresponding special drugs to kill germs and eggs.