Pruning & Training – Apple

Presentations & Videos

• Honeycrisp crop load management.  Bruce Allen. IFTA – Good Fruit Grower summary video. Host. B. Sallato.
• Understanding the click pruning technique. S. Musacchi. Good Fruit Grower. February 15, 2017.
• The Cosmic Gospel: video. S. Musacchi. Good Fruit Grower. March 26, 2018

Publications/Factsheets

• Training and pruning your home orchard. J. Olsen (OSU). PNW 400, revised 2011
• Guidelines on Pruning ‘Manchurian’ Crabapple for speck rot control. HortScience, 53(3):329-333, 2018, by Parama Sikdar, Mike Willett, Mark Mazzolla
• Identification of pruning branches in tall spindle apple trees for automated pruning. M. Karkee, et. al., Computers and Electronics in Agriculture, 2012
• Mechanical pruning in apples, pear and sweet cherry. K. Lewis, M. Whiting and S. Musacchi. WTFRC -FinalReport. 2015

Trade Articles

• Click pruning techniques for Cosmic crisp. S. Musacchi. Good Fruit Grower. January 8, 2019
• Good to know: the 1-2-3 rule for renewal pruning. Bas van den Ende, Good fruit grower. February 15, 2020
• Fruiting wall concept expands: 2014 IFTA Italy. R. Lehnert, Good Fruit Grower, 2015
• Growing fruit without branches. B. van den Ende, Good Fruit Grower, 2015
• Which is better for growing apples, angled or upright? G. Warner, Good Fruit Grower, 2014
• Techniques & benefits of a fruit wall. R. Lehnert, Good Fruit Grower, 2014
• Spreading shoots of young apple trees. B. van den Ende, Good Fruit Grower, 2014
• Managing crab apple diseases. M. Hansen, Good Fruit Grower, 2014
• Adjust Honeycrisp crop early. G. Warner, Good Fruit Grower, 2014
• Honeycrisp: Grow it, then crop it. G. Warner, Good Fruit Grower, 2014
• The five most common mistakes (vertical and V-trellis systems). M. Hansen, Good Fruit Grower, 2014
• Pruning high-density orchards, T. Robinson (Cornell University), Fruit Growers News, 2011