Pruning Tip bearing (and Partial...) trees in the same way as spur bearing

January Man

Hi

I'm still trying to get my head around this pruning malarkey!  The thing that's got me confused now is tip vs spur bearing.  I have heard and read that modern advice is to prune them in the same way.  Can anyone explain how this would work???  

I have also read the opposite advice that tip bearers need to be pruned differently and this makes more sense to me: cut off all the tips and there'll be nowhere for the fruit to form.

So which is correct and how would the "treat them all the same" method work for those tip bearers?

Many thanks

Max

pansyface

I'VE NEVER HEARD OF THE TREAT THEM ALL THE SAME METHOD AND, LIKE YOU, I DON'T SEE HOW YOU COULD. 

Dovefromabove

In the absence of any available evidence all we have is our brains - mine tells me that treating tip bearing trees the same as spur bearing doesn't make sense 

I'd use my brain. 

Redwing

I used to be confused about how to prune tip bearers until I realised that they need VERY little pruning. Prune for shape only and let the tree do the rest is the policy I now have. In other words, I keep an open framework and remove any touching branches.