Tree Pruning advice please

 
Last November I pruned a lot of branches of a acer tree that was getting
too tall, as it is close to the house. This summer, very many shoots
grew form just below each cut branch. These new shoots grew about 36
inches long, from April to August, which surprised me. Now this November
I have had to go up and cut off off these new shoots to stop the tree
getting bigger again. How can I prevent thyis fast growth of so many new
shoots, sometimes three from each cut?




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royroy

 
royroy;941173 Wrote:

Hi royroy, Pruning any plant  when its dormant generally encourages
growth, as the subsequent growth has all season to grow, thus becoming
large. Having pruned these new growths again now, all that will happen
will be a repeat performance of last year, so you need to break this
cycle ! To do this, you prune about mid August, this gives the
subsequent growth enough time to sprout but not enough time to grow
large before the end of the season. So basically, summer pruning will
have a more dwarfing effect, this of course is the principal behind the
summer pruning of fan trained and dwarf apple trees.

hope this helps, Lannerman.




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lannerman

 
lannerman;941220 Wrote:

Than you! I will try again next year.




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royroy

 
royroy;941173 Wrote:

You can't necessarily prevent multiple new shoots forming, but you can
thin them out, which is easy when they are only just formed.  3 from a
cut, incidentally, is hardly "many", indeed I would go so far as to call
it "few".  You should see the spiders that grow out from the pruning
cuts on my neighbour's Norway maple.  Or from a pruned hawthorn.




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echinosum