Winter pruning a peach tree | Year TWO 🍑🍑🍑 Removing unwanted growth & establishing branch structure

Getting your peach tree structure right is crucial to its long term growth and fruiting performance. In this video I show you what you need to be doing during your 2nd year of pruning.

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Extra videos on this peach tree:

Winter pruning a peach tree | Year ONE 🍑🍑🍑 Creating the primary branch structure -    • Winter pruning a peach tree | Year ON...  

Summer pruning a peach tree | Year ONE 🍑🍑🍑 Why & How to SUMMER PRUNE peach trees -    • Summer pruning a peach tree | Year ON...  

This pruning a peach tree video forms part of a series of peach tree pruning where I share my annual winter and summer pruning of this specific peach tree so that you can see how the tree progresses and how the cuts you make impact the overall shape and performance of the tree. Getting the foundations, or primary branch structure, is really important in pruning peach trees and other stone fruit. The primary branch structure creates the strength and structure a tree needs to support large crops of fruit and getting this step wrong can result in branches breaking or reduced fruit production.

The 2nd year of pruning a peach tree focusses on cleaning up unwanted growth from the past summer growing season to maintain the shape we are working to achieve. We also want to be focussing on energy distribution and the placement of secondary branches that will support more fruit. The secondary branches will need to be cleaned up and summer pruned in the following summer to make sure unwanted growth is removed and only branches that are needed are kept.

I will be doing follow up videos on how to prune a peach tree and more specifically on how to prune a peach tree in South Africa to provide local and relevant video content.

Video timeline:
00:00 - Introduction
01:33 - How I am pruning my stone fruit differently
05:17 - When to prune peach and nectarine trees
05:58 - Talking through nectarine pruning thoughts
06:56 - Taking a look at stone fruit buds
08:01 - Pruning a nectarine tree in an urban garden
09:18 - Fruit tree guild + Pruning a young peach tree
13:39 - A recap on how I am pruning stone fruit differently

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