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I finally pruned my peach tree that was planted last year. Now is the perfect time for pruning many of your stone fruit trees (peach, plum), and especially if you have younger trees. So here’s a quick tutorial on how to prune peach and plum trees. Basically you are shaping the tree structure the first year. You want to trim to 3-5 main scaffold branches and make heading cuts at an angle about 1/4 inch above a bud to encourage regrowth behind the cutting area. These actions not only shape the tre

PEACH TREE PRUNING - Here’s the thing about peach trees: they don’t need to be tall to absolutely crush it at fruiting. Peaches actually fruit best on branches that get full sun, and when your tree gets too tall or bushy, the inside stays dark and those shaded branches just phone it in with weak fruit and barely any flowers. Keep your tree around six feet and suddenly way more of the productive wood is getting that direct light it needs. More sun equals better fruit. The other problem with tall

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