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  • Pruning Tip bearing (and Partial...) trees in the same way as spur bearing

    Hi

    I'm still trying to get my head around this pruning malarkey! The thing that's got me confused now is tip vs spur bearing. I have heard and read that modern advice is to prune them in the same way. Can anyone explain how this would work???

    I have also read the opposite advice that tip bearers need to be pruned differently and this makes more sense to me: cut off all the tips and there'll be nowhere for the fruit to form.

    So which is correct and how would the "treat them all the same" method work for those tip bearers?

    Many thanks

    Max

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    The theory as I understand it is that you never completely remove all the tips - your tree isn't topiary. As you're only removing a small number of the tips so as to keep the balance (growth / fruit) there are plenty of tips still to fruit. It's a regenerate and renew process.

    I grow in restricted form so I'm late to the tip bearing party and my experience is limited to a few trees which I'm experimenting with.

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