Cherry pruning is no exception in small areas. How to prune a cherry tree after planting. Prune after frost has gone. This is usually in the spring in March, April depending on your region. Spring pruning of cherries, especially in the first year, is very necessary and necessary. From the nursery, people usually take sweet cherry seedlings with already damaged roots. And after planting the root system of the cherry, it will not be enough to nourish the foliage and the tree will hurt. So that the cherry does not get sick, we will help the young seedling and make a spring pruning of the cherry. There are several ways to trim sweet cherries. Leave the cherry to grow like a tree, you can cut it according to the KGB system or make a sweet cherry crown in the form of a bowl. The KGB system and the cupped crown of sweet cherries are very similar, well we'll take a look at the cup. Leave a stamp about 60-70 cm and remove all the buds and branches below. This will be the main stem of the sweet cherry. Leave another 30-40 cm after the stamp, a piece of the trunk, for the formation of kidneys. If I have good branches in this area, then we leave them. We form branches like a bowl. We send 3-4 rosaries in different directions. At 45 degrees from the cherry trunk. We make a length of about 30-50 cm and cut it off for a kidney that does not go up. All the kidneys that tend upward must be blinded. If your branches are directed upwards and they do not have a 45-degree direction, then install pegs nearby and pull the branches with a rope to the desired angle. Annual branches bend very well and don't be afraid to break them. You can shed the tree well before pruning, this will improve the bending of the branches. And on this, the spring pruning and shaping of the sweet cherry is completed.
17 апр 2021
