Author: Richard P. Marini, Extension Specialist, Horticulture; Virginia Tech
Publication Number 422-020, Posted March 2002
Figure 11. A well-trained five-year-old peach tree before (a) and after (b) dormant pruning. Note the 3 wide-angled scaffold branches and the low spreading, open-center appearance. Vigorous upright shoots and low branches have been removed. Upright branches have been thinned to outward-growing shoots and only good fruiting shoots have been retained.
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