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Pruning fruit trees

 

AdviceAnd directivesTo our fellow farmers:

# Pruning fruit trees:

1_ Definition of La Taille Pruning:

• Pruning: It is the science or art of cutting off a part of a plant, with the aim of improving its shape, affecting its growth, flowering, and fruiting, improving its characteristics, and treating pests that afflict it.

• The pruning process is considered one of the most important agricultural operations, because of its positive effect on giving the tree the required shape, size and height, and obtaining a good quantity and quality of fruits.

2- The importance of pruning:

A- Giving the tree the appropriate shape, size and height.

B- Maintaining a balance between the root, vegetative and fruiting system in the tree.

b- Facilitating access to light and solar radiationair, and materials Spraying and curing to the inner parts for the tree, after Pruning tangled branches and twigs And crowded, and sleeps Un wanted.

C- Reducing the spread of disease and injury by insects Remove the affected parts.

d- Limiting high altitude For trees, to facilitate Spraying, vacuuming, and picking production, adequate field services.

3- Types of pruning:

1 - Pruning education or formation training size and formation of the tree's basic structure (main trunk , main branches, secondary branches) in the first years of the trees' life.

2- Pruning my fruits, La Taille de fructification

Branches are shortened And twigs, remove injured and tangled , and dangling with a view get On the fruits, after Trees reach the production stage.

3- Rejuvenating pruning, Rejuvenation Waist : It is done on old trees, with the aim of restoring them to their youth.

4- Pruning date:

When the sap stops flowing, the leaves fall, and the wood matures, the pruning process takes place,  in the late fall season and the beginning of the season winter as Advise with a delay Pruning in areas with a lot of rain fall And cold and permafrost.

Pruning ends when the buds swell.

Used tools must be sterilized before and after each day by boiling water or fire.

Upon completion of the pruning process, the wounds must be coated with mastic or flacont.

Direct winter treatment.