For anyone interested in how we prune, I was out in the backyard and pruned a couple trees. Here’s a before and after pic of the tree pictured above. I let it get too tall this summer, so had to take quite a bit off.
It probably would have had about 100 flower buds on it. I cut just about all them off. Now it only has enough wood to raise about 8 peaches. It’s a sacrifice made to build a good tree.
Here’s another before pic:
Here is the after:
The tree will put on a lot of foliage and now start putting more energy into developing a good three branch scaffold system.