Pruning

With cutting is referred to in all areas of horticulture trimming (also: circumcision) of all kinds of plants A distinction is made three goals, the topiary, the pruning and harvesting section, in grasses and the like as mowing ( full cut ), in woody plants as pruning than the settling younger to strong growth on old wood.

Cutting measures

Plant comprises reduce in volume - apart from the agricultural and forestry harvest - activities such as:

• Crop cutting mowing of grassland vegetation
• Generally the cut as a crop of cereals and other crops
• Harvesting of cut flowers and ornamental plants for purposes other
• The pollarding - the harvesting of leafy branches - for the production of forage

• The green waste, mowing the lawn
• Cutting trees, such as pruning trees in residential areas or the so-called Wipfelköpfung to control the crown volume and safety reasons ( removal of dead wood )
• The rose- cut to promote growth happiness, wealth and health of flowers roses
• The vine training to growth happiness, income and health to promote the noble vine
• The reservation of transport paths through pruning of trees and other vegetation

• The rear section to encourage them to dense growth
• Especially the ornamental section ( topiary ) in the garden art to perennial plants - to bring in an aesthetically desired shape - so ornamental trees in gardens and parks
• The art of bonsai - the " tree in shell" - with special techniques such as the leaf cutting, root pruning
• Sheet lines especially in ornamental plants to stimulate the growth

General techniques

Is important that is not cut anywhere. The engine should always end with a knot. The wood for the node can not cast, making it useless, which is why it is no longer supplied with nutrients and dies. Depending on the plant can dry out, which can sometimes be seen with roses while entire sections.

The same applies if a plant is rooted. Here the lower end should end with a knot.

For wood in particular see cut

Pruning trees

Fruit tree section includes not only the care of fruit trees in the broader sense also generally shrubs ( small fruits ), tendrils and other woody plants. As a special form of the section of the vine in vineyards is true even though he obviously serves the same purposes.

With the fruit tree section has several objectives:

• Balancing: An attempt is made to find a compromise between wearing, reclining and nourishing wood. The tree is then in a physiological balance. The fruit tree should generally receive one of the natural growth form adapted cone shape, that is, the lower parts are more expansive than the upper. This is the best tanning of fruits and foliage are achieved.
• Light: An important goal of the tree cut is the thinning of dense parts of branches to. Only sunlit fruits are tasty fruits.
• Growth control: general: summer pruning slows tree growth and winter pruning encourages it to. This summer pruning and winter pruning is not limited to the corresponding months of the years run, but the summer cut is the cut in leafy and winter pruning - in the vegetation break after leaf fall until the beginning of sap flow - the cut in unbelaubtem state Represents the goal of any cutting measure must be, there is always enough young wood is available or is newly formed: most fruit plants bring the best return on relatively young wood, partly on the year-old shoot, partly at approximately up to five -year-old wood. It should be noted however, that can not be selected for each tree species generally between summer and winter pruning. For example, are peach and almond trees only during the heyday of cut ( better wound healing and overview of the flower set ), with sour cherry trees of winter pruning is usually used (most powerful expulsion promotes annual, fruit-bearing wood) and walnut trees, and sweet cherries are only in the summer in the months of August and September cut ( here is the better wound healing significantly ).
• Taxes Income: Some plants, especially the cultivated apple, as well as individual varieties are prone to biennial bearing, so excess yield with crop failure the following year. This can be achieved by suitable cut flowers (which is the average during the flowering period ) and summer pruning regulate.
• Health: The removal of parts that are already infested with plant disease, such as Nectria canker, mildew or fire blight; but also the care of parts that are vulnerable to disease infestation, such as open wounds, cuts scars, dead wood or water bags. See also: tree surgery or tree care.

The end of the 1920s by Hans explosive in Oeschberg ( Switzerland ) developed Oeschberg section provides today represents the most important interface technology for education großkroniger fruit trees

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