{"id":331,"date":"2018-03-04T14:40:39","date_gmt":"2018-03-04T19:40:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/wilcoxcoag\/?p=331"},"modified":"2018-03-06T21:53:27","modified_gmt":"2018-03-07T02:53:27","slug":"pruning-3-year-old-pecans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/wilcoxcoag\/2018\/03\/pruning-3-year-old-pecans\/","title":{"rendered":"Pruning 3-year-old Pecans"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We&#8217;ve been doing a lot of pecan pruning around the county these past few months. We want to get this done in January and February. I wanted to show these pictures as an example of how far back we want to cut these 3-year-old trees. It looks like a lot, but it&#8217;s important to understand that when we DON&#8217;T prune at all, we can actually lose a year on production.\u00a0Many of these branches on these trees will not be productive branches in the future.<\/p>\n<p>This is pretty much the last year where we will prune this hard. UGA Extension Pecan Horticulturalist Dr. Lenny Wells taught us to do 3 things:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Cut off ALL branches up to head high.<\/li>\n<li>Select a central leader.<\/li>\n<li>Tip the terminal just UNDER the &#8216;cluster&#8217; of buds at top. You will see the buds clustered at the very top. Come right underneath this, where the distance between the buds start to expand, and make a cut.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<figure id=\"attachment_333\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-333\" style=\"width: 768px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-333\" src=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/wilcoxcoag\/files\/2018\/03\/Pruning3-year-oldPecan-001-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"768\" height=\"1024\" srcset=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/wilcoxcoag\/files\/2018\/03\/Pruning3-year-oldPecan-001-1.jpg 768w, https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/wilcoxcoag\/files\/2018\/03\/Pruning3-year-oldPecan-001-1-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/wilcoxcoag\/files\/2018\/03\/Pruning3-year-oldPecan-001-1-104x138.jpg 104w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-333\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Before&#8230;..<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_332\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-332\" style=\"width: 768px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-332\" src=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/wilcoxcoag\/files\/2018\/03\/Pruning3-year-oldPecan-002-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"768\" height=\"1024\" srcset=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/wilcoxcoag\/files\/2018\/03\/Pruning3-year-oldPecan-002-1.jpg 768w, https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/wilcoxcoag\/files\/2018\/03\/Pruning3-year-oldPecan-002-1-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/wilcoxcoag\/files\/2018\/03\/Pruning3-year-oldPecan-002-1-104x138.jpg 104w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-332\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">After&#8230;.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>With these trees, you essentially &#8216;train&#8217; it on how to grow. Developing that central leader is important also for structure. Tight branch angles (&lt;45 degrees) develop &#8216;included bark&#8217; as they grow. The bark is not as strong as wood, and these are the branches that break in wind. These branches need to be eliminated.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We&#8217;ve been doing a lot of pecan pruning around the county these past few months. We want to get this done in January and February. I wanted to show these pictures as an example of how far back we want to cut these 3-year-old trees. It looks like a lot, but it&#8217;s important to understand [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":227,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-331","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-pecans"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/wilcoxcoag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/331","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/wilcoxcoag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/wilcoxcoag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/wilcoxcoag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/227"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/wilcoxcoag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=331"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/wilcoxcoag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/331\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":341,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/wilcoxcoag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/331\/revisions\/341"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/wilcoxcoag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=331"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/wilcoxcoag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=331"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/wilcoxcoag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=331"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}