Pruning Consequences....

Winter pruning of Prunus Nigra. I always prune after flowering but they can be hedged and are very robust. Anyone know the possible consequences for cherries of very hard late pruning ?

 

Yeah-they can contract canker and die-don`t do it Banana man, it ain`t worth the risk my friend-I lost two this year ( I do keep going on about it I know, but it hit me hard).

 

Canker and silver leaf, cherries should ideally be pruned around june/ july time.

 

No problems with Canker etc when I pruned mine late...But I never had a single fruit the next year:dh:

 

Canker is only a problem if it is in the vicinity. Pruning in the spring/summer encourages the rising sap to cover the wound more quickly. Winter pruning is fine for removing large or DDD (dead, dying or diseased) branches.

 

MAtt-the only problem with checking the area for it is that so many people have high fenced or walled gardens. It was only as I was marching all the bits of tree that some one down the street came by and said it was the 4th or 5th one to go from round my way. Bolting horses and gates slamming shut in the distance I hear.

 

ooh heres a question regarding tree pruning, my next door neighbours have a cherry tree (I think it's a cherry, defo pink cherry blossom in springtime)anyway, I spoke to their landlord - private buy to let property back in about April May time about pruning it back as one of the branches touches the guttering and roof tiles (tree is about 5ft away from front of the building) and she still hasnt done anything about it. are we within our rights to get the tree hard pruned back? This landlady doesnt care or maintain her properties so i doubt she'd be bothered about this tree coming down if the worst came to the worst regarding it's positioning, but to be fair I just would like it hard pruned back so it's off our roof. can this safely be done? is it an expensive and time consuming task? (only asking this as technically we're going to be doing this as someone else who's property it's on cant be bothered)

 

Price would depend on acessibility, size of bough etc... Pricing of tree work includes multiple factors and should only really be done after looking at the job.

Might be a 5 min job with the stihl on a stick (pole saw!) or need to be done off ropes or platform... etc.

 

You should really cut back to your boundary as its encroaching, Talk to the landlord and explain the situation to him/her, Youd still need to get his permission to allow an arborist to climb the tree anyway as its still 'his tree' It may just be a case of a polesaw in which case its just cutting back to the boundary :thumb:

 

TBH I cut off one of the whacking great limbs of the tree that was blocking all the light out of our garden after speaking the landlady about it, but asked her to get the branch that is overhanging the roof (literally) sorted, and she still hasnt done this, as she was happy about me taking the other limb off I assume she wouldnt mind our sorting the real problem branch. would I need her permission in writing for the tree surgeon? as this branch is quite hard to get to and tbh I think ropes are going to be in order to prevent it breaking all the windows on the way down. the branch isnt very fat it's about the size of my wrist tapering to very thin (the limb splits into two and it's only one of these 'splits' that needs to be dealt with)

 

If shes not going to be their then yes get it in writing, it saves alot of headache:D