{"id":5756,"date":"2016-01-16T10:33:06","date_gmt":"2016-01-16T15:33:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/?p=5756"},"modified":"2016-01-16T10:33:06","modified_gmt":"2016-01-16T15:33:06","slug":"how-pruning-affects-the-cold-hardiness-of-fruit-trees","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/2016\/01\/how-pruning-affects-the-cold-hardiness-of-fruit-trees\/","title":{"rendered":"How pruning affects the cold hardiness of fruit trees"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <em>Fruit Growers News<\/em> had an interesting <a href=\"https:\/\/fruitgrowersnews.com\/news\/9224\/\" target=\"_blank\">article<\/a> today on the impacts of pruning on the cold hardiness of fruit trees such as peaches and apples. \u00a0To me, the effects were surprisingly complex and depend on when and how much the trees are pruned. \u00a0In addition, the \u00a0reduction in cold hardiness can affect the tree long after the pruning occurs. \u00a0If you have fruit trees that you are considering pruning, you will want to read this article.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_2551\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2551\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2015\/04\/peach-blossoms-commons.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-2551\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-2551\" src=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2015\/04\/peach-blossoms-commons-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"Source: Andrea Pavanello, Commons Wikimedia\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2015\/04\/peach-blossoms-commons-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2015\/04\/peach-blossoms-commons-184x138.jpg 184w, https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2015\/04\/peach-blossoms-commons.jpg 320w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-2551\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Source: Andrea Pavanello, Commons Wikimedia<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Fruit Growers News had an interesting article today on the impacts of pruning on the cold hardiness of fruit trees such as peaches and apples. \u00a0To me, the effects were surprisingly complex and depend on when and how much the trees are pruned. \u00a0In addition, the \u00a0reduction in cold hardiness can affect the tree [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":58,"featured_media":2551,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5756","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-climate-and-ag-in-the-news","category-crops"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5756","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/58"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5756"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5756\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5757,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5756\/revisions\/5757"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2551"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5756"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5756"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5756"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}