Apple Tree Pruning - Beginners Guide For Healthy Fruitful Trees

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Make your apple trees the healthiest and most fruitful they have ever been with this easy beginners guide including cutting technique, the difference between pruning tip-bearing and spur-bearing apple trees, correct pruning method with easy to remember tips, and bonus advice on winter washes and spring tree care. These techniques work on trees growing in the ground and also trees in containers. Prune your apple trees in winter to keep them fruiting well, encourage healthy new growth, and to keep them to your desired size.

This video focuses on pruning your apple tree to a standard shape, also known as a "lollipop" shape because it usually has a single clear trunk with branches on top. It's important to keep an open framework of branches in the centre of your apple tree to allow air and light into the centre of the tree. This helps to keep the tree healthy and also helps fruit to ripen.

This is the only apple tree pruning video you will ever need. It's designed for people who are new to pruning and will walk you through step-by-step what you need to do and the order you should do it in for best results. Novice fruit tree growers often don't realize that there are different types of apple trees, spur-bearing, which includes most apple trees, but also tip-bearing and partial tip-bearing, which includes varieties like Bramley, Worcester Pearmain, Discovery, Irish Peach, and Cornish Gilliflower. There is just one important difference in the way you prune these from other apples, and many pruning videos do not mention it at all. If you have a tip-bearing apple it is important not to cut all of the branches shorter in one go, as this will leave you with little or no fruit the following summer. Watch the video to learn the simple trick to keep these apple trees the size you want without sacrificing fruit production.