Apple Tree Pruning 03-11-2021

Hello friends welcome to all of you in @ocd community hope you all are fine safe and healthy.

Morning
When I wake up early in the morning and do necessary activities of the day then I went into kitchen and had morning salt tea (noon chai) named in the local language after that my dad told me @suhail today you have to go in Apple orchid for yearly tree pruning, I replied papa yes.

What is tree pruning
Fruit tree pruning is the cutting and removing of selected parts of a fruit tree. It spans a number of horticultural techniques. Pruning often means cutting branches back, sometimes removing smaller limbs entirely. It may also mean removal of young shoots, buds, and leaves.

Then me and the pruner specilists namely @idrees and @nadeem went in the orchid and ready for work.

Instruments used in pruning

1. Pruning shears.

1. Pruning saw.

1. Ladder.

1. Shredder.

Lipton tea
After completing one of the tree and little bit tired then we take 15 minutes break and had Lipton tea with desi tortilla, these are the wonderful moments that I have recorded in my memory ever.

After that we went back on track and continuously work till the lunch time has come almost we have completed 15 trees. 1:30 pm we had lunch. After that we on work till 5:20 pm then we stop work and come to home.

Merits of tree pruning
Snow is the most important factor for apple season in Kashmir specially in shopian District the most quality producing apples of the valley. But excess snow is not beneficial for apple trees so we have to prune trees before heavy snow fall.

Pruning helps us to produce better and quality fruits so one have to be sincere and specialist in tree pruning, pruning also helps us to cut the damaged parts like buds etc.

Thanks for Reading
Suhail Ur Rehman