Peach trees are pruned four times a year
Peach trees are pruned four times a year. For the first time, after germination to the growth period of new shoots, from mid-late April to early May, wiping buds and removing shoots can reduce the plant nutrients that useless branches continue to consume. Keep proper top branches, adjust the direction and angle of extension branches of main branches, and trim new branches growing at the incision and useless new branches and long branches on the trunk of young trees.
The second pruning is in the rapid growth period of new shoots, about from mid-May to mid-June. Mainly pruning long branches, long branches, and shaping fruit trees with auxiliary shoots. Improving the light transmittance and air permeability between plant leaves is the key step to improve the fruit setting rate of fruit trees.
The third pruning, around the middle of July, is mainly to improve the light condition of the plant crown and promote the plant nutrition to turn to flower bud differentiation and fruit growth when the plant grows slowly. At this time, most branches of plants have stopped growing, so it is necessary to intercept the branches that have not stopped growing and the branches that are growing too vigorously to control the growth of branches.
The fourth pruning is in the period when the new branches stop growing and the flower buds differentiate. Around the end of August, plant growth is mainly controlled to make branches full of nutrients and improve the wintering ability of branches and buds. It is an effective measure to improve the quantity and quality of peach fruit by coring all the new shoots that have not stopped growing, inhibiting the continuous growth and elongation of branches and promoting the differentiation of stout lateral branches and flower buds.