Pruning Apple Trees | Correcting and Training Young Apple Trees | Voice over version

Pruning techniques for young apple trees. 2 pruning and training examples from grafting until fruiting. Pruning trees into the desired shape is also shown. Correct Training and Pruning of young fruit trees is essential to a good development and fruit production.
Excessive fruit load should always be removed so the young trees can concentrate its energy on growing in the first few years.

Table of Contents:
0:00 - Intro
0:49 - First Pruning
2:17 - Removing suckers
3:28 - Removing excess fruits to prevent breaks and young tree exaustion
4:32 - Correcting Unpruned Apple Trees
6:53 - Summer pruning

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[valenciasainz]

"The energy of young trees should be concentrated on growing, not fruiting."
Best advice ever for any plant.

[mat]

This is amazing, I’m so glade I found this Channel. Truly amazing old school. The best you can learn from👌👌

[noahshantlinger]

This is so informative, easy to follow and to the point. Thank you sir!

[jillcusack]

Excellent, thank you for imparting your knowledge. :)

[aimeecruz]

Sir I am growing my 2 Apple tree in our country hope they will survive in Philippines 🇵🇭. Mine was already 6 months old. I will be watching some of your good videos. Thank you sir

[iamchinny]

this is the best video i've seen on pruning

[debraarizona]

This was a very helpful and interesting video.
The trees look very healthy, how ever they look better when pruned, and fruit is easyer to reach.
Thank you for sharing.😊🍏🍎

[lesliepalm]

i just cut off the top off some of my new fruit trees to dwarf them. I assume branches will come back! and pruning can resume.

[milindkhairnar]

Very simple and easy explaining informative. 👌

[jonnsmusich]

Your videos are very helpful. This year I am summer pruning for the first time and it is already making a big difference. Not so much to do for winter pruning. Maybe next year I will use your instructions to try some grafting. Many thanks.

[cloudnx]

Is there a tree shape that you’re shooting for? Seems like smaller trees is your goal? Fruit production first?

[JohnnyGibson]

Videos muito bons. Obrigado, Parabéns e Energia para mais!! 💚

[sujitkumardas]

Very nice idea, thank you very much. Next post video clearly & freshly made. All the best.

[vannaandpheapvideos]

I like your video thank you for you sharing this video.

[JSacadura]

Here's a version of a pruning video with audio commentary instead of hard coded subtitles. Let me know if you like it better than the old approach (i have a poll going, in the community tab of my channel or you can comment below). I will still add English subtitles (not hard coded), for those who need them. These will have to be activated by the viewer. NOTE-CHECK BELOW for replies to FAQ.
Table of Contents:
0:49 - First Pruning
2:17 - Removing suckers
3:28 - Removing excess fruits to prevent breaks and young tree exaustion
4:32 - Correcting Unpruned Apple Trees
6:53 - Summer pruning
Aqui está uma nova versão de um video de poda com comentário audio em Inglês em vez das legendas embebidas no video. Mesmo se passar a usar esta opção, as legendas em Português continuarão a estar disponíveis em futuros vídeos.
Aquí está una nueva versión de un vídeo de poda con comentarios de audio en Inglés en lugar de los subtítulos incrustados en el vídeo. Los subtítulos en Español seguirán estando disponibles en futuros vídeos.
Voici une nouvelle version d'une vidéo de Taille avec commentaire audio en Anglais à la place des sous-titres incorporés dans la vidéo. Les sous-titres en Français seront toujours disponibles dans les prochaines vidéos.

FAQ
To be clear - Why did I leave the trees without pruning for a year ? Why not cut them at knee high since the beginning?
If i had a recent apple orchard with very young trees I would have cut them at knee high and start forming all of them very early. And i did that with the all the apple trees i have.
The problem is that I planted several rows of apple trees of the same variety (the ones i had access to at the time). In the last few years I was able to get my hands on scions of very good varieties, so i regrafted most of the trees (i have nearly 100 apple trees of more than 70 varieties and counting) .
In an ideal situation, as soon as the grafts have reached enough height and if I was confident that they had taken, i could start forming the new tree, cutting at knee high (or a bit higher because of the graft) so the tree could start creating multiple stems early.
But, these are new and precious varieties and i have lots of friends who bug me, to give them a few scions of each new one. So i let them grow for at least a year, unpruned, so i can harvest the scions in the winter. The problem is that some of these varieties are very vigorous and, left unattended, I end up with several trees that have grown too much and are quite a challenge to form.
I could cut them short and start all over again, but at the expense of tasting a few fruits of these new awesome varieties, in their second year. The temptation is too great.
So, in an ideal world i would not have these unpruned trees to retrain. Nevertheless, i am using them to show people that they can do it, even if they never pruned their trees since they planted them. But i see how this can be confusing for the viewer. I will try to make that point more clearer, in future videos.

[Traubeere]

Herzlichen Grüß aus Österreich. Vielen Dank. Tolle Video.

[SQ_og]

I tied my apple tree vertical nursery growth to string and am training them with landscaping staples.

[bijoyvasudevan]

Nice, appreciate if you share Guava plant growing techniques till fruiting 🙏

[vmcshannon]

Thank you. I have been wondering what to do with my apple trees. I planted them last year and didn’t really prune them. They are both 8 feet tall with few side branches. I think I know what to do next. Thanks!

[fharris]

Very informative! Thank you. Greetings from USA