How to Identify and Remove Sucker Growth

Monsoon season is in full swing and with that little bit of moisture in the air, the trees are really starting to push new growth. With that new growth comes something that is NOT good for your grafted fruit trees....Sucker growth! Today we're showing you how to identify and remove suckers before they take over your tree.

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[ponygirl]

I’m grateful for this one. Although I’ve been growing citrus for years, it’s my first yr with mulberry & figs. Now I know I can either leave the suckers on my fig or use those cuttings for new ones.☺️Now I just need to learn how to root my fig cuttings.😆 I love the end blooper. You two are so fun & glad I found you, 😉👩‍🌾🍊🐍🌳🙋‍♀️

[theorangetreehomestead]

I had just taken out a giant 6' sucker out of the middle of my Hass Avocado on Saturday. It was very interesting I had never seen an avocado sucker before. The leaves were a lot different than the Hass leaves. Good call keeping those citrus trees clear at the base, my mother-in-law got a nasty rattlesnake bite in her orchard last summer.

[RDHEDZ]

Great minds think alike 🤣. I was just out taking care of suckers this morning!

[mesutozsen]

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[chancepaladin]

thank you, you're the only one I could find that covered this, thank you thank you thank you

[kylanve]

I must be a sucker... I keep coming back for every video!!! 😂

[marschlosser]

Watching it again! There were a few suckers on the kumquat, but the tangerine is loaded every spring. Gonna get an everbearing mulberry! While I like the Pakistan, even green berries drop like flies in the wind. The citrus suckers are trifolate orange. Figs do best for us if only 1 stem is allowed.

[neurocognitive]

I have a lot of grafted fig trees. I usually use Brown Turkey as my rootstock, and trim any suckers that may develop below the graft point. However, I know a lot of fig folks will graft multiple varieties onto different branches of the same fig tree in order to expand the number of varieties they can grow, and also to safe on space by not having to plant a tree of that variety. Of course, the risk in using rootstock is when you get a longer than usual freeze, and the variety you've grafted dies back down to the rootstock, and you have to re-graft. I live in Zone 10a, so it's not much of a problem in most locations here in SoCal.

[AbidAli-bvgl]

Excellent another video. Lot to learn, When will you sell jujube seeds?This is session we learnt how to remove suckers

[SimpleEarthSelfReliance]

I had a tonne of issues with these on the olive plantation. At some point it becomes too hard to manage, and we had the goats clean them up for us. Win win. Now, I will probably see this on the almonds, too. The "waste" material is great for the rabbits/goats/compost!
Thanks for the informative stuff.

[kwesty]

Thank you so much!! I have several Fig trees and my Kadota has a ton of sucker growth from the ground. I was debating on cutting them. This was very helpful.

[deecooper]

Very informative & just what I needed. Thank you 👵🏻👩‍🌾❣️

[danielfisch]

Thank you for sharing, I’m going to go out tomorrow and prune any suckers I see.

[lindawoody]

The vegetable seeds I planted 2 months ago just have sprouted as we have had nearly 14 days of rain off and on with some of that heavy. No problems at all with it and the veggies are very happy. Surprisingly I also have volunteer veggies coming up from 3 years ago former owner and from bird seed (my offering last Winter to the songbirds). Black Oil Sunflowers and some Dent type Corn probably. I am up in Mohave County, AZ.

[Reciprocity_Soils]

Clear helpful content. Question: aside from aesthetics, why not chop & drop and leave your cuttings right there with the wood chips? What do you do with those suckers?

[xunheilvsnipezx]

Howdy howdy from Tucson! I literally just got done doing this, 😁

[MWinklerBooks]

Really good info. Sadly I didn't know this needed to be done, so I'm gonna take care of our citrus today.
Are Citrus and the couple other trees you mentioned, the only ones this needs to be done for? For instance: I have a couple young Pomegranate trees. Would cutting their suckers only be for ornamental reasons? Like if I wanted a tree rather than a bush.

[lauraeldridge]

I have a Meyer lemon tree that is 2 years old, 7 ft tall and the trunk is 2 in diameter. There are two branches that are one inch in diameter that split into a 'Y', 7" from the trunk. Both branches look the same so I think they are above the rootstock. Is it best to cut one branch off or leave it? Since the branches are so close to the base I don't know if it will split when it gets larger.
Thank you for the excellent video!

[davidmathibe]

Can you make sucker growth as a rootstock and graft onto it?

[tonisee]

With apple trees there is one trick with suckers - when they are still green you can pull them off by hand. There is some period of time in the summer when they are already strong enough and not yet too woody and not too strongly attached to the tree/branches. In my northern climate, is about between midsummer eve and end of July. Pulling suckers off by hand sounds like pointless thing to do, but during that specific period, they come entirely out of the bark, letting just a little hole there. That hole heals by autumn and there will be no further suckers coming from that place. If you cut suckers out, those places are usually the starting points of new ones. Sometimes already during the same year.
I don't know if it works like this with any other fruit trees.
I'm interested if those rootstock suckers can be used as a propagation material for new rootstock? I.e. growing your own rootstock and later grafting them with your own varieties. I have never tried that, but as always, the description of the process sounds like a no-brainer (which they in practice rarely are...) ;-)