[nafex] Pruning and Growth

[Don Yellman <dyellman@earthlink.net>]

Tom:

Agree with Ed.  It seems to me the answer is selective pruning conducted 
throughout the growing season.  This can also assist formation of 
fruiting wood in otherwise reluctant trees.  Then you won't have to 
worry about auxins and cytopathic hormones, which are difficult to see 
and even harder to train.  The trees I have summer pruned here are 
blooming much more profusely than those I have not, and are otherwise 
just as healthy.  I managed to shock a 12-year old Early Cortland that 
had never really bloomed by some pretty severe pruning last August. 
 This spring it is covered with blooms.

Rgds, Don Yellman, Great Falls, VA


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