Apricot and plum can be grown with either a central leader or open center. Note: Sweet cherry is usually pruned to a central leader system. Because stone fruit trees bear fruit on 2nd-year wood, the open-center pruning system also keeps the fruit-bearing surface close to the ground, accessible for pruning and harvest.Open-center trees allow optimum air circulation and light penetration into the tree’s center, both important factors in reducing the development of brown rot on fruit and.
The pruning system best suited to stone-fruit trees is called “open center.” Pruning and training the trees to this system produces a vase-shaped tree. Unwanted branches should be removed or cut back early to avoid the necessity of large cuts in later years. Like all fruit trees, stone-fruit trees should be pruned to develop a strong, well-balanced framework of scaffold branches.
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