Cherries are loved all for its delicious and sugary fruit. But in order to every year to shoot a good harvest from the tree, it is necessary to look after it. To make the crown of the tree beautiful and at the same time improve the quality of the fruit, you need to know when and how to properly cut the young and old cherries.
When can I trim a cherry?
Beginners gardeners are sometimes interested in: whether the cherry is cut off? Know that to trim this fruit tree follows annually. And it is especially important to cut the cherry properly in the first year of its growth. The plant rejuvenates during pruning, the probability of tree diseases decreases, and the taste and even the color of the fruit improves.
Most often, the cherry is cut in the spring. Here there are secrets: pruning should be carried out at stably positive air temperatures, but before the sap flow in the tree. Spring pruning is used to form the crown of a tree.
Those of the gardeners who know how to properly cut the sweet cherry in the fall, consider this time of year the most favorable for this event. At this time, lateral shoots are shortened to 3 leaves. If pruning is carried out for sanitary purposes, then on the tree all sick and damaged branches are removed.
Gardeners also practice summer pruning of cherries, as a result, shoots stop growing, and the crown of the tree is shaped like a fan.
If you purchased a one-year-old cherry seedling in a nursery, then before planting it in the ground, you should cut it to a height of 50-70 cm. The seedlings below this length are cut off next year.
The tree of a young sweet cherry grows very quickly, thus forming an insufficient number of fruiting shoots. Therefore, the main fruit bearing branches should be cut regularly. If the cherry forms too many shoots, then two lower buds should be removed on them, since shoots from them will grow at an acute angle. Pruning old cherries is used to rejuvenate the tree. In this case, dry, sick, too high branches are removed.