Flowering trees (Horse Chestnut, Linden, Flower Plum, Flower Apple, Flower Apple, Acacia, Pineapple, etc.), flowering characteristics should be taken into account. Trees with flowers on last year’s shoots, you need to prune in winter or early spring. In turn, the flowers, last year’s shoots pruning the trees (Flower Plum, Flower Apple, Acacia, Pineapple, etc.) after flowering It is necessary.
Dry pruning from the bottom up, wet (green) pruning starting from the upper branches it’s more convenient to do it downwards. What makes for a good tree pruning? >>
In pruning to improve and accelerate the growth of trees; close to each other (cramped) and remove weaker and younger (green, live) branches that damage each other to cut off the remaining branches. The remaining branches will then develop better and healthier.
How to prune a flowering tree? It is of great importance to select and use the most appropriate cutting tool for pruning. Small and thin branches are cut with sharp knives or pruning shears, thicker branches up to 2.5 cm, with handled pruning shears, higher branches with pole and pull shears, thicker branches with a saw, thick and high branches with a chainsaw, also using a safety harness and pruning ladder, tall trees should be pruned with a chainsaw using basket or ladder vehicles.
After pruning fungal and diseased trees, pruning tools are carefully disinfected should not be used again without being treated. Otherwise, fungi and diseases may infect healthy trees.