Train and Prune Fruit Trees/Resources

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Contents 1 Identify the main fruit tree training systems and tree parts 2 Train and prune trees between newly planted and three years old 3 Prune a mature tree according to a training system 4 Dispose of prunings 5 General

Identify the main fruit tree training systems and tree parts

Train and prune trees between newly planted and three years old

• Video of Alex explaining how to prune a newly planted fruit tree.

Prune a mature tree according to a training system

• http://www.taunton.com/finegardening/how-to/articles/espalier.aspx - Espalier

Dispose of prunings

General

• Great video clip of Horty Kim making an intro for the Cromwell Fruit Trees.
• Nice follow on video clip of driving past fruit trees with music playing in the car
• Video - Otago Polytechnic: Pruning fruit trees - Vase Shaped Tree
• Video - Otago Polytechnic: Pruning fruit trees - Tree Training
• Video - Otago Polytechnic: Pruning fruit trees - Structure of a Fruit Tree
• Video - Otago Polytechnic: Pruning fruit trees - Prune and Train Young Trees
• Video - Otago Polytechnic: Pruning fruit trees - Fruit and Leave Buds
• Video - Otago Polytechnic: Pruning fruit trees - Central Leader
• Video - Fruit Tree Pruning , Central Otago . Otago Polytechnic 1 - Alex on a hydra ladder
• Video - Fruit Tree Pruning , Central Otago . Otago Polytechnic 2
• Video - Fruit Tree Pruning , Central Otago . Otago Polytechnic 3
• Video - Fruit Tree Pruning , Central Otago . Otago Polytechnic 4
• Video - Fruit Tree Pruning , Central Otago . Otago Polytechnic 5
• Video - Fruit Tree Pruning , Central Otago . Otago Polytechnic 6
• Video - Fruit Tree Pruning , Central Otago . Otago Polytechnic 7
• Video - Fruit Tree Pruning , Central Otago . Otago Polytechnic 8
• Video - Fruit Tree Pruning , Central Otago . Otago Polytechnic 9
• Video - Fruit Tree Pruning , Central Otago . Otago Polytechnic 10
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• Video - Train and Prune Fruit Trees, Otago Polytechnic 1
• Video - Train and Prune Fruit Trees, Otago Polytechnic 2
• Video - Train and Prune Fruit Trees, Otago Polytechnic 3

• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pruning_fruit_trees - Nutshell 830
• http://www.palmers.co.nz/index.cfm?menuID=108 - Palmers Guide To Successful Fruit Tree Growing
• http://www.sustain.canterbury.ac.nz/documents/pruning_workshop_15_aug_06.pdf - Pruning Fruit Trees Workshop Okeover Community Garden
• http://www.mitre10.co.nz/preview.cfm?mid=339&guide=128&section=4 - Autumn Care for Fruit Trees
• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qx7ndnTeUME UMass Fruit Advisor, 02/12/07, Pruning central-leader apples on you tube
• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UTsoxH9wijM - Pruning Apple Tree time lapse
• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AAgPOWZlvYw - Pruning fruit trees in Carroll County, Arkansas
• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ddP7cbCiLR4 - UMass Fruit Advisor: apple training techniques
• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FMRRnuu2qKc - UMass Fruit Advisor — June 18, 2007: Summer pruning and hand thinning apples
• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OMvLLVn4quk UMass Fruit Advisor: June 23, 2006: Oblique-banded leafroller pheromone traps, setting the degree-day biofix; 'Erdie' Jubileum tart cherry on Gisela 5 and 6 rootstocks, June 23, 2006
• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qg-uKH3BZQQ - UMass Fruit Advisor: Bud removal of sweet cherry