And were looking today at pruning trees which haven’t been pruned for long time and this is not at our orchard. Today Julie, I, and Sarah have come to visit a friends house. My friends have moved into this home over the last year and they’ve got these trees, which that is seem to be growing. All growing with standards until they’ve been pruned for long time.
So were just going to have a look at them and it was a great disturb to our friends who did not plant this little orchard. It’s all completely as it was when they found it. Well let’s go through that some of the mistakes. Now this trees are probably standards and you can see let me stand here, see I’m six feet tall, so this get six foot branch that is a little – it takes with trunk before the branches come out.
Now that’s really great for architectural beauty of the tree but it’s also if you’re getting any fruit out of it. This tree here is planted just a three feet away from the one next to it that’s an incredible bad idea probably the best thing to do with that we’re going to cut it out completely but I am sure I wouldn’t do that not without talking to my friends first.
It’s much to close to this tree this tree has got a lot of growth coming up from the bottom they need to be taken out completely right at ground level, looking further up in to the trees they’re very thick most of the apples are growing way up off head height. And so the trees did we finned out, they’ve got lots of growths like this water chutes that keep growing up very vigorously.
Some of those we kept probably it should be, which we get rid off. Here we can see very null, sick disease looking wood near the box died a lot of this, this needs to be probably sworn out bearing in mind that sometimes this trees have a considered architectural value they looked beautiful in the garden and just to hack them down would be a little bit brutal.
And we’ve got a very interesting tree here, as you know it was falling over. It’s really looks as so blow me down more of a wild life reserve than an apple tree and I didn’t notice it was going too happened. So what we do with this is quite and interesting thought. You're right so it is and amazing this still got some vigor in it, so again this always a decision if I got prune trees for people.
I always say to them now if you want me to prune this to get maximum fruit, I’m telling the best answer to that particular problem might be cut it down and replant that’s what I would do with this one probably. Or you have particularly interest in the beauty of it will not at all share with some, it’s was not garden or it was just a nice plants coming up place to sit underneath.
If you were more interested in just to maintain the beauty of it as far as possible in which case sometimes there’s a lot to be said for leaving one enough alone. So you’re the only one to think what you trying to achieve and don’t brutalize the tree. There are a couple of big mistake you can make the biggest mistake is not to plant an apple tree if move in into a new house. What something you would you do is really brutalized the tree saw them down very, very hard indeed.
A lot of you going on the top sniping hold the tips out, all we do are to make a through assessment of the tree and then fill it out appropriately. Okay, so were going to have a chop with all of this before we do anything else.
