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Hey, AlexTrees. Thanks, but now I'm confused. Everything I read about pruning mango trees, sounded exactly like pruning stone or pome fruit. In which case you never want your scaffold limbs all coming from a central point off of the trunk, but rather spaced out. Is this something unique to mango, or is it more for container culture. According to Fairchild and other resources I was going to cut below the ring of buds, or is this just for field application?TFN
Your Carrie fruits mid-season there? It's normally early season in S. FL.
https://youtu.be/zh1AnvNa6mcThis is a video that’s been shared on the forum before. I pretty much followed these guidelines. At about 8:30 into the video it details pruning instructions, I recommend watching the whole video, very informative!
Quote from: AlexTrees on August 07, 2018, 05:18:57 PMhttps://youtu.be/zh1AnvNa6mcThis is a video that’s been shared on the forum before. I pretty much followed these guidelines. At about 8:30 into the video it details pruning instructions, I recommend watching the whole video, very informative!For training pruning, the video recommends making the cuts just above the nodes, to encourage multiple (4 to 6) branches from that spot, and then pruning out the weaker shoots to leave just three or four branches. Others recommend pruning just below the nodes, such that it encourages one or two branches, in the desired growth direction. These seem like opposite approaches. Does the approach depend on the growing environment? Or is it just a matter of personal preference? Is one approach preferred over the other here in Coastal Southern California?Clay
Quote from: AlexTrees on August 07, 2018, 05:18:57 PMhttps://youtu.be/zh1AnvNa6mcThis is a video that’s been shared on the forum before. I pretty much followed these guidelines. At about 8:30 into the video it details pruning instructions, I recommend watching the whole video, very informative!For training pruning, the video recommends making the cuts just above the nodes, to encourage multiple (4 to 6) branches from that spot, and then pruning out the weaker shoots to leave just three or four branches. Others recommend pruning just below the nodes, such that it encourages one or two branches, in the desired growth direction. These seem like opposite approaches. Does the approach depend on the growing environment? Or is it just a matter of personal preference? Is one approach preferred over the other here in Coastal Southern California? Clay
Hey, AlexTrees. Thanks, but now I'm confused. Everything I read about pruning mango trees, sounded exactly like pruning stone or pome fruit. In which case you never want your scaffold limbs all coming from a central point off of the trunk, but rather spaced out. Is this something unique to mango, or is it more for container culture. According to Fairchild and other resources I was going to cut below the ring of buds, or is this just for field application?Mango doesn't have branching habit like stone fruits. A mango branch from the trunk might only have one dominant lead and nothing else. TFN