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Prune early- and mid-season peaches promptly after harvest

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Early- and mid-season peach trees are harvested right in the hot, rainy season, when new shoots grow heavily and readily form secondary shoots, which easily causes the upper canopy to become congested and the inner canopy to have poor ventilation and light penetration, affecting flower bud differentiation and pest and disease control, and working against improvements in next year's yield and quality. After harvest, combined with fertilizer and water management, reasonable pruning can promote shoot maturation and flower bud formation, laying the foundation for a bumper crop the following year, and can also inhibit the outward shift of the fruiting zone. The specific pruning methods are as follows: right after harvest, retract overlapping and crossing branches, thin out overly dense, fine and weak branches, and remove the upper canopy

Early- and mid-season peach trees are harvested right in the hot, rainy season, when new shoots grow heavily and readily form secondary shoots, which easily causes the upper canopy to become congested and the inner canopy to have poor ventilation and light penetration, affecting flower bud differentiation and pest and disease control, and working against improvements in next year's yield and quality. After harvest, combined with fertilizer and water management, reasonable pruning can promote shoot maturation and flower bud formation, laying the foundation for a bumper crop the following year, and can also inhibit the outward shift of the fruiting zone. The specific pruning methods are as follows:

Right after harvest, promptly retract overlapping and crossing branches, thin out overly dense, fine and weak branches and useless upright branches in the upper canopy that block wind and light, and cut back the fruiting branch section at the tip of fruiting branches, keeping the reserve branches at the base; this can effectively promote their growth and maturation, favor flower bud formation, and improve flower bud quality.

For vigorous branch groups in the upper canopy, after thinning out the vigorous shoots, twist them from the base or twist and press them down to control their growth vigor and promote flower bud differentiation. For upright vigorous branches inside the canopy, when there is space to keep them, select 2 to 3 basal branches with wide branch angles and cut them back at weaker secondary shoots, so they transform into good fruiting branch groups.

For scaffold branches with small angles, especially in young fruiting trees, branches can be bent and spread to open the angle. For newly sprouted vigorous shoots, pinch the tips when they reach 30 cm and twist them.

For peach trees with bare, leafless areas inside the canopy, temporarily bend each main branch to the horizontal, and at the bare areas in the middle and lower parts of each branch, make 2 to 3 half-ring cuts every 15 to 20 cm, so that new shoots sprout from the lower parts; when the new shoots reach 15 to 20 cm, pinch the tips and twist them to encourage them to develop into good fruiting branches inside the canopy.

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