Your fruit tree needs proper care

You are indeed new to tree growing world if you have just planted a new fruit tree. Caring your tree properly in the initial years of its growth is really very important. Remember, trees normally die in the first few years mainly because of poor care habits and not because of any disease or pestilence. So you should be well familiar with the fact that in order to give your tree an immediate success and future god health you need to do its proper care.

In first few years every part of tree is very weak. The roots, trunk and the branches are so new that they can not support them selves easily. If your tree is giving fruits in the early years the danger is even more prominent as the combined weight of branch and the fruits can cause the entire branch to snap off. So always provide your tree external support in such case by propping them up with boards or tying them to something at fair height. So, proper support in early years of tree growth ensures the independence of your tree in future years that will please you very much.

If you want some healthy and delicious fruit from your tree, take proper care of its nutrition. Moreover proper nutrition ensures that your tree survive longer than one season. What your tree exactly needs totally depends on your area and climate situation but consulting the nursery employee in any case can be really helpful. I have never found any nursery employee giving wrong advice. They will always give you proper fertilizer and advices. Do tell them properly the area in which you are growing the tree and the health status of your tree and then just leave rest to them. They will give you tips on how to improve the state of your tree.

A false idea is that giving your tree lot of water ensures its healthiness. Never ever think like this and always keep in mind that insane amount of water can be destructive. It can affect the taste of your fruit and even can cause your tree to die completely. Have you ever thought like this? If you want your tree to give fruit for long, always give it that much water it actually needs. Giving your tree lots of water is no solution to un-healthiness! Always judge the root problem of your tree and try to solve it.

Remove any branches that are looking damaged or diseased as early as possible. Keeping such branches is totally a waste of nutrients as the tree sends nutrients to every branch and if any branch can’t be repaired why a tree should waste nutrients by giving them to that branch. This can create a lot of de-balance of nutrients and the branches that really requires nutrients can fall short of them. So chop off any branch that looks unhealthy or deteriorating. If whole branch is not unhealthy, you can simply remove only those parts that are looking totally damaged and can leave the rest as they are.

Caring your tree in such a way will ensure the health of your tree and a day will come when it will bear lots of healthy fruit. Never leave any fruit on the ground that is bound to fall. Never leave any of the fruit on the tree even if it is looking ugly. Just pick it and throw it away as keeping them on the branches can lead to so many diseases. The rotten fruit is a perfect home of diseases and insects that can damage your whole tree badly.

Caring your tree properly is of course a task which requires intense labor. Sometimes you will feel that keeping care of all the things that ensures tree heath is impossible but if you pay attention to the nutrients your tree needs, you are indeed following a path of success. Moreover, always look out the exact amount of water your tree needs. Do not keep it thirsty and of course do not drown it in too much water. You can get a perfect fruit tree with delicious fruits by following all these immensely useful tips.

Tree Training Theory; make your tree grow the way you want!

One should not misunderstand the term pruning. People mostly think that giving your tree a certain style or shape is known as pruning but this is a false idea. Changing the structure or shape of tree has been given another name and that is ‘Tree Training’. Pruning is basically a way to prevent the tree from becoming crooked and dis-balanced. Moreover it is used to prevent diseases and to encourage healthier fruit growth.

Pruning don’t give your tree a proper shape, it only maintains the shape you have achieved through ‘Tree Training’. Tree sometimes starts growing too many branches on only one side of the tree which can distort the vertical structure of the tree badly. That is where pruning comes in; you can remove the un-necessary branches using different pruning techniques. So pruning is just marinating your tree shape not altering the tree shape.

Pruning: Not a New Concept:

The word training is not old in tree growing world. In Tree Training you can direct the growth of tree in any wanted shape by simply tying down branches or propping them up from the ground. Tree training is normally used in initial period of tree just to make sure that tree grows in every direction but it can be used effectively in later years of growth also. If you do proper tree training in earlier years of tree, you can save lot of pruning efforts later.

Summer time is the best time for training. The theme of Tree training is that you try to redirect un-necessary braches instead of chopping them off. We can relate the tree training process to orthodontic braces which a dentist sets on the patient’s teeth. Braces pull or push your teeth in the direction best for your teeth structure. Slowly and steadily your teeth starts growing in that specific direction naturally. Same happens in this tree training process!!

Tree Training is All About Generating Ideas:

Tree training needs a lot of planning and thinking as there are lots of ways you can do it. You have to choose the form in which you want your tree to be. Some training techniques let your tree grow very dense and that is best if you want to grow an orchard. Some techniques increase maximum fruit bearing per tree. Give your tree any shape depending on how you want your tree to function. Always go for the tree shape that you think is perfect for your situation.

If you are thinking that tree training theory is not useful for those who want their tree to grow in standard form, you are wrong. Okay what If your tree branches start growing too close to each other that they start blocking out each other? Of course in this case you need to train them to grow in other direction so that excessive pruning can be avoided later. So a tree planter needs to know what training means, if he/she wants his experience to be successful and easy.

Use Out side Braces:

To guide a tree, you will need some kind of outside brace to push or pull a branch. If you want two branches to be close you can simply tie them by using a rope. Similarly if you want two branches to grow away from each other you can put something between them. So training actually needs thinking from you. Just imagine the different ways you can teach your tree in order to make it do what you want. You can use stakes, fences and things like that to implement tree training practically.

Every tree grower takes lot of benefits from tree training theory. You can use tree training techniques no matter whether you want to completely change the shape of your tree or simply want to optimize the branch placement for healthier fruit.