HOW TO TRAIN A YOUNG PEAR TREE - Set your pear tree up for future success!
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- Опубликовано: 30 июн 2024
- Get the most out of your future pear tree by training your young pear tree using certain techniques (use chapters to navigate).
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There is nothing like getting a new fruit tree to add to your home or backyard orchard, but knowing what you need to do to care for it can be daunting. This is why learning to train your your young pear tree is so important! Get the basic of training correct and your pear tree will gives you bountiful harvests for years to come. Skip the training of your pear tree and you will spend more time pruning to achieve the shape you require and potentially less fruit - neither of which are an ideal situation.
The most important aspect of training your pear trees once they arrive is to work on the positioning of branches. Pear trees are apically dominant which meant they want to grow higher and higher. If they are left to their own devices the branches of pear trees will grow high and very close to the trunk. This creates issues down the line when you want to structure your pear tree as branches that are near parallel to the trunk are weak and can easily split the trunk. This can be a tree killer and is best rectified using training when the tree is still young.
String, fabric, or twine, is by far the most effective training material as they are all very gentle on the growing and think bark of young pear trees. There are many other methods that are discussed in this video, but using string gives you a few different options when it comes to branch angles and branch placement. All the other training options don't allow for the repositioning of branches at the same time as establishing the branch angle.
Then, to ensure your pear tree is the strongest it can be when it is at full maturity it is best to train the branches in the 45 to 60 degree angle to the trunk. Anything more, or less, than those angles create issues in that the branches will become weak under the weight of a fully laden branch. If the angle is too high it may split the trunk. If the angle is too open the branch may snap under the weight of all the fruit.
Setting your pear tree up for future success is all about training and creating a strong foundation on which to start corrective and structural pruning. If pear trees are correctly trained at a young age then structural pruning is significantly easier and a lot more effective. This means a bigger, stronger, healthier tree that bears more fruit at a younger age - something that is well worth the little bit of extra effort that is needed to train these young pear trees.
Video chapters:
00:00 - Intro
01:09 - How do pear trees grow?
03:34 - Training vs structural pruning
08:05 - The importance of training
10:22 - Timing: When to train young pear trees
12:24 - Ways to train your pear tree
16:25 - How to train a young pear tree
18:05 - Conclusion
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So glad I found this video, as I do indeed have a young pear tree planted last autumn, and all it's growth is totally vertical! So tomorrow it will certainly find itself being trained as demonstrated. None of the videos I had previously watched on pruning young fruit trees had mentioned the apical ? growth of pear and apple trees. Thank you, much appreciated!
Yay, I am so glad you found my video then too 💚
I have to agree with you that it's seems most of the videos on RUclips either focus of mature or orchard trees and more often than not completely skip the young foundation years. What happen then is pruning become a scary thing because there is so much going on.
Imagine you now having to try figure out structural pruning with all those strong vertical branches. It would be so daunting! At least now you can select your strongest ones that are placed in the best position and train those. Pruning is then going to become so easy because all you are doing is focusing on your trained branched and not on everything else.
I'm so glad you found this video usefully and I hope you are able to easily apply what you saw to your young pear tree 🌻
Great video. I was about to prune my orchard but will now train for this first year. Thank you!
Thank you so much and I'm so glad it helped you out. I hope this step helps you as much as it has helped me with my trees 🌻
@@MySustainabilityJourney I was wondering if this training is still beneficial on pear trees that are already open center pruned?
This was actually excellent. Thanks. So you don't top off at knee height, as some backyard orchard promoters in America advise? How tall do you then expect your tree to grow?
Thanks so much, glad you enjoyed it 🙏
Yeah, I always see that and it upsets me when everyone defaults to an open center vase shape which is what you would want to achieve by cutting it so low. Apples and pears are incredibly strong vertical growers and I find them fitting into the modified upright style a lot more naturally.
I didn't talk too much about style in thus video because it was already long, but u will definitely get one done on styles at its so important.
Thanks for taking the time to leave me a comment🌻
Even more helpful info. Thanks
Yaaaay, I'm so glad to hear this 💚 hopefully you can now approach your young pear and other fruit trees with confidence 🌻
Very informative. Thank you
It's the greatest of pleasure and it's makes me so happy hearing you found this video so informative 💚🌻
Thank you!!! This was so informative, please do a brief on other trees too, spesifically apricot... planted last year and just left it to grow, but where like you said the pear grew up, the apricot has looonnnngggg droopy branches and I have no Idea how it should be kept.... we planted orange, naartjie, lemon, pomelo, apricot, peach, pear and plum.
Thanks for another wonderful comment Nelia 💚 I'll most certainly do that for you!
I have done 2 peach tree pruning videos that may interest you. Apricots are pruned the exact same way at peaches so you can apply wht you see here to your apricots, peaches, nectarines and plums.
Winter pruning a young peach tree - ruclips.net/video/usWVvqkrOsI/видео.html
Summer pruning a stone fruit tree - ruclips.net/video/usWVvqkrOsI/видео.html
I'll definitely get those other videos planned in for you 🌻
Interesting information. Thank you.
I want to put a couple of apple trees in, but I’m concerned about how they’d cope with the heat here. We get 40+ degrees for several days in a row, several times, during the summer.
Maybe you could address the yard placement in a future video 🌳🍎🍐😊☀
Thanks for that great suggestion and for leaving a comment, I'll most certainly take you up on that request 😀
In terms of heat, apples, pears, peaches, apricots, cherries and nuts all grow really well in the Klein Karoo (Little Karoo) here in South Africa and the heat here gets intense! I'm talking mid to high 40s for 3 months. The most important thing is soil moisture and wind. If you have a lot of wind at over 40 degrees then your leaves will burn and if there isn't enough moisture they will also burn.
Drip irrigation with lots of mulch would be the best and as the orchard starts to mature it will create it's own humidity and microclimate and adapt to that.
What you can do if your trees are very small if put 40% shade cloth over the in the hottest months. You can do 2 years with 40% then the year after 20% and then you can remove it. This is not absolutely necessary but it's an option that will give your trees protection from the heat.
I hope this helps you out a little 🌻
Thanks for informative video it helps a lot. What do you think about this method I can use in cold climate? Because there can be meters of snow in winter with us. I'm a little afraid that branches may break under the weight of snow. Whats your opinion? Thank you / Andrea
Thanks for taking the time to leave me a comment Andrea 💚
The great thing about this method is that it mimics nature. In summer the branches naturally droop down under the weight of the fruit and in winter the weight of snow also helps to shape trees. It is harder though because the leaves are gone. A good example are conifers, like pines and cedars, that have drooping branches from the winter snow.
The greater risk of branches breaking is under the weight of the fruit so training then young would give you the best chance at creating the strongest possible branch positioning and structure 🌻
@@MySustainabilityJourney Thanks so much. I will try the method when the snow melts. Keep making more nice and practical videos.