When to prune a plum tree - KEY tips, dates and how to get the best fruit PRUNING plum trees is essential to maintain a fruitful crop each year and timing it right is the key to keeping a steady ...

A. Hello again, Karole. The best time to prune a plum tree is in late winter just before bud break, and the advice you were given notwithstanding, plum trees fruit best with rather severe pruning.

Most fruit trees require full sun, which means at least 6 to 8 hours of direct sunlight every day to fruit, but they'll fruit ...

Summer pruning tips for flowering ornamentals, fruit trees Pruning is a huge subject because of the immense number and kinds of plants. So let’s focus on woody flowering ornamentals and fruit trees.

Find out how to prune fruit trees properly, plus tips for timing your pruning right.

PRUNING plum trees in summer rather than winter helps to keep them disease-free and sets them up to produce another great crop next year.

I received an email inquiring about pruning practices and immediately began to ruminate on the possibility of a connection between the act of pruning and the fruit known as a prune. It turns out ...

Plum trees are susceptible to diseases that have the potential to be more problematic when pruning is done in wet weather.

Cytospora canker is a type of common fungal disease that often affects trees weakened by drought, severe weather, or injury caused by improper pruning or a lawnmower blade. If your plum tree is ...