Plan Now For Summer Pruning: Pruning this month may improve quality and reduce dormant pruning

摘要

Your Fujis are out of control: All vigor, no fruit. Vertical sucker-wood abounds. And it's late May, too early to summer prune. Maybe not. When you "can't read a newspaper in the orchard at noon," summer pruning in late spring could be the answer, says Washington State grower Rick Maib, who oversees several orchards located in the central Columbia basin. Unsheathing the shears in late May instead of August means better fruit set, better tree shape, and less dormant pruning on his Fujis.