I find myself posting in Houzz and here to help build up some of content. So I apologize if any of you read my posts twice. I promise I’ll soon make the all-in switch over soon to this site : )
Anyways, I got some good advice from fruitnut and wanted to post pictures of the before and after of a bare root nectarine planting that had many branches.
I headed it to where there were 3 or 4 scaffolds that pointed away from the fence. The scaffolds are all at different heights and then I cut back each of the scaffolds to 2 or 3 buds.
Did I do it right??? I also want to plant an Arctic Star or Panamint nectarine next to it and will give it the same pruning treatment. Thanks everyone!!
Looks good to me. I’d cut the stub above top branch a little shorter. Not that what you left will hurt and could be pruned shorter in about a yr. If cut shorter it will heal over faster.
The only issue is whether the little branches sprout out- I like to wait until peaches and nect trees begin to sprout out if I’m going to choose permanent scaffolds- but the tree will try to grow new branches in any case so what you did is fine and certainly a standard way to do it.
New nectarine. It was pretty low branching to begin with. First branch starts at 12 inches. I pruned the laterals back by half. Anything else I should do right now besides thinning it to 3 or 4 scaffolds? I was pretty happy to find a low branching tree to begin with. It was the last bate root nectarine at the nursery. Even though it is in a raised bed i still put it on a little berm for the nemagard rootstock.
Donny,
How did your trees turn out?Are there any new pictures?
Also,did your Panamint Nectarine bear fruit yet?That one is not mentioned too much and I was wondering about the quality.Thanks,Brady
Hey Brady, funny thing is, all of those trees ended up being moved around, some into pots, and some to other places in the yard. They are all doing pretty well now. The Panamint had 3 small fruit this past summer, they were tasty! Arctic Star was out of this world good.
