This video has been a tree saver for me. Recently moved from AL to Texas and have a pear tree that needs a lot of tlc. Lots of wonderful information and guidance. Thank you so much.

This video was helpful to me. I'm pruning a pear in the back yard right now. It's still a young tree, so now I can train it right.

First video that actually helped me understand the how and why of pruning. Thanks!

It's nice to see Extension guys on the Web. Thanks for the pruning instruction. One thing I would like to submit is, when those adventitious buds break and start forming fill-in branches, they will be weakly attached. True, they can do with some training. but it will take 3 to 5 years for them to legitimize. So they need very gentle handling. Also, I inform my pruning customers that with less tree they will get less fruit for a few seasons. But less fruit usually means higher quality fruit. So it's a good tradeoff.

My pear tree refuses to grow outwards. It just keeps growing up and up and straight. Thanks to this video I finally learned how to get them to grow out! You have to cut where the buds are facing out! Why didn't I think of that before.

It looks so much better and healthier, ty for posting.

It looks naked...lol. We have pear tree, totally overgrown, thick with branches, but produces a ton of delicious pears, every year.

Thanks from Wales, UK. Plenty of useful information,

Excellent video, THANK YOU!!! I have been searching forever to find out how to prune my pear tree and every time I found something I would need to know what type of pear tree it was. Thank you, Thank you, Thank you!!!

Good vid Thanks for posting it.

I was wondering if you should cut the top of the central leader to keep it from growing 40 ft tall?

I sure have lots of work ahead of me. My pear tree needs major trimming. Thanks.

I was hoping for a follow up also. If you have the time, it would be great to see how the tree did. Thanks

I have been taught to cut slightly above the branch collar so that it will heal.

Great video! I have a totally out of control, approx. 40 ft. tall, huge, jammed together water sprouts filled tree, that has been producing less and less fruit over the last 10 years till it's hardly producing any, now. I should have pruned it like this years ago. Thank you!

Don't they have hand tree saws anymore over there :-)

Love your accents!

i would do a course on chainsaw maintenance if i was you guys

Wow that is a terrific microphone. The quest is holding it 5 feet away from you and I can clearly hear you

It would have been nice to show the overall height of the tree.

Can you trim it once it’s blooming in spring?

Somebody pit a little to much oil in the mix! Lol!

Great information, thank you so much

Jesus, what a smoking chainsaw

Nice

Did you prune too much in this video? Any followup video on this same tree?

Is the fall also a good time to prune or should you wait till spring

Would love to see the tree here in 2021

Can I apply these same techniques to my peach and nectarine trees?

I eat pears.

hope you have a decent chainsaw now-days!!

The saw created a lot of pollution

how do you mix your gas...200 -1

Guys...wear protective eyewear....PLEASE...set a good safe example

It looks pathetic when you finished.

thanks for helpful information... Taking chances cutting at head level without PPE...someone at Tallapoosa Ext should edit this video to have a text notice: "TCE does not recommend use of power tool without appropriate...blah, blah, blah" because there IS a fool out there who will follow this lead exactly and sue to pay for their stitches, glass eye and/or hearing aid.

you aint gonna be eating pears this year..you fuckin butchered it