I found this guy on YT this week… he demonstrates how to summer prune apples which encourages them to develop fruit buds.
He recommends doing this late summer after most growth has stopped…
He shows exacrly how to prune, where to prune the latterals… and the results a few weeks later (many developed fruitbuds and flowered in the fall). He pulls those blooms off… and says they will produce fruit the next spring.
He says that summer pruning done right is what produces fruitbuds (earlier on your apple tree than they would normally).
Going to give this a try here. We got almost no rain in july and extreme heat… but now in aug… lots of rain… and my apples are doing a late growth spurt.
If i understood him correcrly i need to wait until this growth spurt slows down to do my summer apple pruning.
It may be late aug… here… this year.
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