At WSU research is being conducted on mechanical pruning of apple and.

Jun 01, out of 5 stars Training and Pruning Apple and Pear Trees. Reviewed in the United States on March 21, This book is for the professional and the amateur.

The key to producing a well trained tree in the shortest amount of time is to follow a training program consistently.

It is one of the best books on the subject. Read more. One person found this helpful. Helpful. Comment Report bushdig.bar by: As noted above for pruning, two regional peer-reviewed publications provide the most comprehensive treatment of the basics of training fruit trees in the Pacific Northwest.

The first, PNW Training and Pruning Your Home Orchard provides recommendations for apple, pear and sweet cherry. cot, cherry, fig, nectarine, peach, plum, and prune trees. Many pear, apple, and pistachio trees are also trained to this system. With this method, the center of the tree is kept free of large branches and vigorous upright shoots (suckers and watersprouts) in order to allow sunlight to reach the lower fruiting wood.

First growing season. A primary objective of training and pruning is to develop a strong tree framework that will support fruit production. Improperly trained fruit trees generally have very upright branch angles, which result in serious limb breakage under a heavy fruit load. This signiÞcantly reduces the treeÕs productivity and may greatly reduce its life.

Another goal of annual training and pruning is to remove dead, diseased. training and pruning pear trees