\nIt is the summer pruning of apricots that will help prepare the tree for winter and get a rich harvest next year.<\/p>
Apricot care is different from other stone fruit crops. Namely, the apricot needs to be heavily pruned in the summer, but do not forget about autumn pruning. In this article, we will look at summer apricot pruning. <\/p>
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It is in summer (mid-June – early July) that the apricot grows a very large number of young shoots, more than half of them are shoots that deplete the tree. In addition, they thicken the crown and provoke baldness of the inner branches. <\/p>
Apricot<\/strong> is not able to ration the crop on its own. In this culture, all flowers are fertilized. Constant overload of fruits and excessive growth of green shoots adversely affect the condition of the tree. Branches that break under the weight of the fruit and do not produce young shoots quickly age and dry out; Every year, fewer and fewer fruit buds are laid on them. As a result, the yield of apricots decreases, and fruiting becomes irregular. The quality of the fruits themselves also deteriorates significantly: they become smaller and lose their former juiciness. A significant decrease in the winter hardiness of overgrown and weakened trees, a deterioration in their immunity and resistance to diseases and pests. <\/p> The basic rule of summer pruning (rationing with fruits and removing excess shoots) is a stable annual harvest of juicy, sweet apricots.<\/em><\/p> Rationing of apricot fruits<\/strong> should be done in May. Remove those fruits that touch or will touch each other during growth, rub against the branch, remove less developed ones, leave such a number of fruits on the branch that the branch does not break (leave a minimum number of fruits on thin parts of the branch). <\/p>\n Summer (from June 15 to July 5) pruning of apricots <\/strong>consists in pruning young fattening shoots (long, strong, more than 30 cm ), such shoots thicken the tree, trees growing in the middle of the crown are cut off completely, and those growing outward (fattening) are left and shortened by half (such shoots will bloom next year 2-3 weeks later). All thin young twigs up to 30 cm leave fruit twigs. <\/p> After summer pruning, the apricot needs to be watered abundantly.<\/p> We transfer the rest of the pruning to late autumn.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" It is the summer pruning of apricots that will help prepare the tree for winter and get a rich harvest next year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":11597,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_kadence_starter_templates_imported_post":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[77],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15646","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-garden","generate-columns","tablet-grid-50","mobile-grid-100","grid-parent","grid-50"],"yoast_head":"\nRationing of the apricot tree with fruits<\/h2>
Rationing of apricot with young branches (green operations)<\/h2>