Department: Fruit
Worked with Emily doing spur pruning apple and pear espaliers and fan trained trees. Tying in leaders and shoots to fill in gaps and spaces if need be. Cut the rest of the shoots longer than a secateur length to one leaf above basal cluster. This helps give back calcium to the fruit, as young growth absorbs a lot of this. Cut must be level or slightly downward from bud not upwards as the latter just results in dieback. This pruning is called Modified Lorette, there is also the Modern Lorette system which also includes cutting out big things in the spring. Sweet cherries are spur pruned too.
Photo of espaliers spurred pruned before and after and revealing more fruit when done:
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| Photo 1: Before spur pruning |
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| Photo 2: After spur pruning. |
Controlled growth of indoor table grape vines also. Where new growth had appeared after last cutting back - cutting back to one leaf.
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| Photo 3: Indoor vines. |
