How to prune peach branches?

1. The traditional pruning of peach trees in winter is mainly based on shortening, so as to control the outward migration of the resulting parts. However, the base and top of fruiting branches are mostly single buds or leaf buds, and the fruit quality is poor. The middle buds are mostly full buds, and cutting off a large number of high-quality buds by short cutting and retraction is not conducive to the improvement of yield. At the same time, there are many heavy branches in trees, so it is very difficult to manage them in summer.

2. Modern peach trees popularize pruning with long branches, mainly relying on slender branches, leaving space for long branches, thinning branches too densely, leaving long branches to bear fruit, making full use of full buds in the middle and improving fruit quality.

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Purpose:

1. Use a tree with high light efficiency.

Modern peach trees began to use trunk and spindle to produce three-dimensional fruits, which was beneficial to the increase of yield. Moreover, peach trees are easy to bloom, which is beneficial to fruit crown control. Fruiting branches are easy to update, and three-dimensional fruits have more advantages. Trunk and spindle are widely used in peach production.

2. Strictly control the number of branches.

Peach trees have the habit of branching many times in 1 year, usually 3-4 times a year, and even in 1 year in places with heavy autumn rain, there are more than 5 times, so peach trees tend to branch too much, resulting in poor light. Therefore, we should strictly control the number of branches, simplify the tree as much as possible, and strictly control the number of large branches.