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Skeeter
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Posted: Tue 12 Jun, 2007 2:22 pm

How much pruning should I do to help the shoots that are growing from my recent grafts?

At this point I have only removed shoots that are sprouting near the grafted bud shoot (within a foot or so).

Should I remove all shoots originating from the same limb (like those that are sprouting from the base of the limb 2-3 feet away)?

Should I remove other adjacent limbs that are growing out over the grafted shoots?

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Posted: Tue 12 Jun, 2007 3:35 pm

if the new sprouts are vigorous and are growing in the direction of opening in the canopy that would make the tree more balanced, then graft you slower growing cultivar over them, or graft additional varieties.

You can easily end up with a 1,000-n-1 and yet perfectly balanced tree given the time and space, Laughing

Instead of pruning, I just do grafting for balance, it is the same effort, actually more pleasure for me. But to each their own way of tree maintenance.
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Posted: Wed 13 Jun, 2007 12:10 am

So you don't do any pruning to help the new shoots grow? Do you even leave the shoots that start near the grafted bud shoots?

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Posted: Wed 13 Jun, 2007 1:28 am

If the grafted plant is vigorous, it doesn't need any help. In most cases, I want to slow them down instead of speeding them up. So I let them fruit the first year grafted.
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Posted: Wed 13 Jun, 2007 1:13 pm

JoeReal wrote:
if the new sprouts are vigorous and are growing in the direction of opening in the canopy that would make the tree more balanced, then graft you slower growing cultivar over them, or graft additional varieties.

You can easily end up with a 1,000-n-1 and yet perfectly balanced tree given the time and space, Laughing

Instead of pruning, I just do grafting for balance, it is the same effort, actually more pleasure for me. But to each their own way of tree maintenance.


Joe:
I learn something new today. I have always cut the main stem on very vigorous grafts as I did to all those European plums I grafted a while back thinking that they will produce more branches and ergo more balance tree. I never thought to graft another varieties to them. I thought that they are so young yet to graft. Now I will.
But they were only about forty days old and were over a foot long!
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