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Four-year-old Red Astrachan tree after pruning. Branches thinned only. The two lowest branches make a poor crotch, due to low heading and poor training the first year.

Title: Apple growing in California
Identifier: applegrowingi4251937alle (find matches)
Year: 1937 (1930s)
Authors: Allen, F. W. (Frank Wisdom), 1887-1982
Subjects: Apples
Publisher: Berkeley, Cal. : Agricultural Experiment Station
Contributing Library: University of California, Davis Libraries
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38 University of California—Experiment Station suppress any new undesirable growth that may have started after the first pinching. First Dormant Pruning.—At the first dormant pruning, which in California may be given any time after leaf fall and the beginning of
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Fig. 6.—Four-year-old Red Astrachan tree after pruning. Branches thinned only. The two lowest branches make a poor crotch, due to low heading and poor training the first year. activity in the spring, the scaffold branches should be headed back 15 to 30 inches or more from the juncture with the tree trunk. As the pri- mary reason for this heading is to induce more branching, the limbs should be cut at the approximate height where the second branches are

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