Wear the gloves while pruning to protect your hands.

Fruit is borne on one-year wood.

When the bushes are mature after several years, remove older central canes and prune inward pointing laterals back to the main cane. Prune when dormant in late winter or early spring.

Fall pruning is not recommended, because the new shoots could be killed by a cold winter. If necessary, thin out the dormant fruit buds to get fewer but larger berries.

Nov 25, Remove any diseased or broken wood, plus crossing branches.

Pruning in summer and fall, before buds are visible to the eye, sacrifices next year's fruit.

You want the bush to have a narrow base and a wide, open top that allows sunlight and air in. The best time to prune blueberry bushes is late winter while they're still dorant. Jul 26, The best time to prune blueberries is in late winter to early spring (January to early March) after all chance of severe weather has passed.

Young bushes generally do not require as much pruning, however, trimming blueberry bushes throughout the growing season may be necessary to maintain overall health and bushdig.barted Reading Time: 2 mins.