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Essential Guide to Pruning Techniques

Pruning is the selective removal of plant parts to enhance sap flow and improve yield quality, typically performed in the later stages of plant life. Its objectives include maintaining a balance in flowering and fruiting, ensuring regular fruit bearing, removing infected branches, and allowing adequate sunlight for growth. There are different types of pruning, such as thinning out and heading back, with varying extents categorized as light, medium, or heavy pruning.

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Essential Guide to Pruning Techniques

Pruning is the selective removal of plant parts to enhance sap flow and improve yield quality, typically performed in the later stages of plant life. Its objectives include maintaining a balance in flowering and fruiting, ensuring regular fruit bearing, removing infected branches, and allowing adequate sunlight for growth. There are different types of pruning, such as thinning out and heading back, with varying extents categorized as light, medium, or heavy pruning.

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Pruning

Judicious removal of any part of a plant to divert sap

Towards its producing areas, leading to an improvement

In the quality of yield is called ‘pruning’. It is done during

The later stage of plant life when it becomes ready to

Produce flowers and fruits. Decayed parts can also be

Pruned off (Fig. 1.9).

Objectives of pruning

• to maintain flowering and fruiting balance

• to obtain regular bearing in fruits

• to remove pest-infected branches

• to ensure adequate sunlight for plant growth

• to maintain a balance between vegetative and

Reproductive growth stages

Types of pruning
Thinning out

When a shoot or a branch is removed entirely without

Leaving any stub is called ‘thinning out’.

Heading back

When the terminal portion of a branch or a shoot is

Removed partially, leaving the basal portion intact, it is

Called ‘heading back’.

Extent of pruning

If a small portion of a terminal of a branch or shoot

Is removed, it is called ‘light pruning’. When a longer

Terminal portion is removed, it is called ‘medium

Pruning’, and depending upon its

Severity, it can be described as ‘heavy

Pruning’.

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