This is so much better than other pruning videos that just show a guy cutting one branch. This explains the why and how!

The best presentation of pruning. I wish I could send a picture to you of my new Cascalote tree to have you direct on how this should be pruned/ trained to be healthiest.

This is THE best tutorial on pruning trees. It’s funny, too! 🌳 Thanks from Michigan!

Thank you Cass. I found this video when I was looking for advice on pruning a young walnut tree in a tight space in the garden. Love you narration and you concern for our beautiful friends, the trees. Listening in London, UK.

I can't say thanks enough for this so helpful pruning guide!

A great insight into pruning a tree correctly. Thank you.

The videos from plant amnesty are some of the best ive seen. And have had the most effective impact on my career.

Very informative. I was about to go cut my tree 🌲 like I do at the barber 💈 and cut just the headings. Now I’m gonna put that project on hold and watch chapter 2.

Thank you so much for this series so instructive and well done. Easily understandable even for a foreigner like me. I have learned.

You are such a great & solid teacher, many thanks. I’ll be spending many hours on all your chapters, your great commentary & super images. Easily among the best pruning instructional vids on Y Tube.

THANK YOU!!!! So many videos on youtube about pruning are about a specific tree & not about how to learn the skill itself! Thank you!!!!

Instant subscription! You are exactly what I wanted to find. Thank you!

This is really helpful, thank you for making this.

watching this again to refresh my memory, this course was so good, it helped me identify trees that had to be removed, and to tidy up the ones worth keeping. The NZ natives I have tend to start as shrubs and turn into trees, so I know how to keep them as shrubs for a hedge or shape as trees as needed. There are 4 “arborists” in my town, and 3 of them just top the trees.

What an awesome resource! Than you for sharing this!

Cas if you are still listening this is amazing information. Its so hard to find this in depth information about trees. I'm a bonsai enthusiast and I know this is what everyone keeps to themselves. Thank you for sharing.

This is really helpful, I was trying to find any information about trimming trees since I'd like to make my young quercus fusiformis a little bit bushier, I thought it was as easy as an interior plant but oh god I'll need to watch all these episodes so I do it correctly

Thank you ! I learned so much from this video.

Very good video on pruning. Educational as well as enjoyable. Like the way you narrate.

Ok. This was both highly informative and authoritative. But it was also nicely spiced with clever humour. Very enjoyable. Thanks.

Your narration is very informative, witty, and fun to listen to...❤️

I love this! Thank you

very interesting and helpful. thank you from england

Very well illustrated and explain, thank you

Such excellent info!

Thank you guys for sharing us these videos cell phone is my learning weapon cause in the back days we hadn't the opportunity to learn at least going to school all these videos are really helpful for people like me who are enrolled in the tree work thanks again and got bless you guys Roberto Gomez.

Lmaooo so agressive I love this sm

cant believe this was free, thank you

Ok...phew...am I glad I jus5 watched that! Now... part 2! 👍🏻☘️

Thank you! Informative and well done!

Excellent video series

Such a good lesson!

Best information on pruning I can find

Amazing video! Thanks I learned a lot! I have two cedars that grew out of proportion, and was thinking of topping them… I definitely will not. But is there another solution to limit their size without damaging them? They have been planted under an amazing looking willow and start to grow through it…

This was very informative. Are there techniques to "fix" a tree that has already been topped?

Long shot but what chapter do you mention eucalyptus trees in. Watched these a while ago a sure it was mentioned in one of these?

Thank you for all this wonderful info. I need some advice on Camphor trees. We bought a foreclosed home with numerous mature camphor trees. They are (were) stunning. We can't afford an arborist or tree service and need to tackle this on our own. Any info is GREATLY appreciated. I don't want these gorgeous guys to die and I'm certain they have "issues". And it's difficult for me to figure this out being a camphor looks deciduous (and ours sheds leaves in abundance all year) but is from what I understand, an evergreen?? I admit I am very confused!

Some good pruning knowledge .... But also some disrespectful name calling. Pollard and espalier are beautiful art forms.... But then again, maybe Ither artists like Leonardo and Michelangelo were also just rich guys with too much time on their hands.

Thank you!

good job

Excellent, thank you

Okay, but what if you have 3 ugly trees that you were going to tear out anyway because they don't have ENOUGH branches (or any really) at low levels? The trees (3) all grow straight up, split into three or so more trunks which all continue to grow straight up with zero branches on them and get over 50 feet easily before they even begin to have leaves on them? I live on the low side of a hill, my neighbors house is completely above mine, and it (the house) blocks much of the sun in the afternoon. The trees are now getting sun in the mornings, due to two other large trees that have now been removed. One was a dangerous leaner with 2 trunks rubbing together allowing carpenter ants to find a home. The other collapsed under it's own weight and the power company removed it. Should I remove all three trees and plant evergreens or some privacy screen trees? Or continue to wait for lower branches to suddenly start growing? Or should I maybe lop off a single trunk (1/3rd of the tree) or more in hopes that it starts growing again only with some side branches this time? I've had neighbors who have cut down a tree trunk above the fence line only to have these waterspouts grow back in their place. And honestly, a thick full group of these waterspouts would be a really good privacy screen! I just WANT some low branches! How do I get them? Is there a way to notch a tree to make branches form?

I didn't know this, last year had two trees topped in back yard, because when I moved because it was very closed to house and already covering roof. Now I see 'water sprouts' what should I do?

If you don’t top trees what do you do? Completely take the tree out?

I've seen these mistakes through the city. It's interesting that a mere KZfaq video could help someone so much who proclaims to do this as a business, yet makes these mistakes

So am I correct that there is no way to top a tree?

I'll bet the people who click the thumbs down are the same guys topping trees

I have two giant Walnuts that was done to...the tree trimmer explained...is there any way to repair the damage or look?

I have a 2 year cherry tree, it had aphids, and I take it off the new growing leaves at the end, because it there was the concentration of aphids, and now it seems it's dying, and curling the now end leaves and turn into red. It is dying, what can I do?

You say that any pruning that achieves the desire of the pruner is good pruning but that heading is bad, what if I want the tree to grow long straight logs but can't coppice because of animals in the area? Another name for the "water sprouts" is pollards, and pollarding was a process used throughout ancient Europe starting in the bronze age. So are the heading cuts still a bad cut even if it does achieve the look and function I want from a tree?

Thanks for the video! I have a hedge with a few bushes that are very thin. Should I do a Selective Heading Cut?

2:36 😂😂😂

Could you please enable the SAVE feature on this video, so I can save it to my pruning library. Thanks!

my city is full of topped trees, i think the city likes them because it fills with greens

LOL ... So far I've not killed any trees.... My method is as follows. If I have to duck when mowing the grass it's a candidate for removal. Also prune trees such that there are no saddles lower than 5 - 7 feet. I want the tree to look like a tree not a bush.

Finally!

I suppose the hydra effect might actually be useful for making tree sculptures like having a tree in the shape of mickey mouse.

Thank you.

I"m living in MN (zone 4 B). I got some Asian pear trees. I watched a lot of clips about pruning. I'm confusing about that. What's different between summer pruning and winter pruning? which one for more fruit and which one for shape

Bonsai tree people are laughing.

Removal cuts are only "nicer and kinder" than reduction if the limb isn't huge.

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Great advice - but what about topiary!?

what is difference between "bad" topping and pollarding?

Cities- even in the wealthiest areas- all over southern California have their landscapers top trees along the street. I'm not much of an arborist but always thought it looked absolutely terrible and traumatizing to the tree.

My name is carlos I was watching the video on how to pruning trees and everything you say shouldn't be done it was done and can see wood root every where so what can I do to save my trees or is this the end of my trees please help

Thanks a lot 🫶

The simple principle I gathered is what cut ends a shoot and the cuts that propagate.

forest tree species grown in open urban settings do require pruning for their benefit, contrary to your assertion that pruning is for human's benefit...That being said I love your message for trees, but I don't care enough for all shrubs to not shear them

Please make this video in hindi language

how much money does it take to make a slideshow?

I will be coming out videos of actual trees that have been topped and growing back over 12 months. time laps - check us out!

There are many murdered trees in the small city where I live. Some have been so cut back that I call them broccoli trees.

Would be far more useful to show actual tree branches

I should have watched this video to get knowledge before I topped them off. I am in a big trouble. My trees gave fruits last years. Now they won’t give me fruits next year. I have to wait 3 years to grow out and not sure they will yield fruits.😢

Plant amnesty now!

Incorrect.......the grantor of your money is the American taxpayer. Great video. Very informative .

i need these videos for a college assignment and you didn't even mention Lion's tailing, Over-thinning, or Over-skirting? pls i'm just trying to get a distinction :(

I would say its a bit turning the topic upside down. I mean it is not a batd thing to shape your trees, the worse is if you do not do it every next time when it is needed to do. When you tidy up your hedges and trees frequently nothing from showed here will happen as growing three heads form one that you cut last year or doglegs or any conifer top hats. I mean come on. I was looking here for the correct pruning lesson not that what it looks like when you forget to take care of the trees.

mostly relearned, woman love to bitch... but thx for the 1 minute of useful info about where to make the cut... that confirmed, what we all should have known intuitively.... let's hope the next chapters are more fruitful????

info = good, tone = very condescending

Wow a whole pruning instructional video chapter one with no mention of Natural Target Pruning vs flush cuts and causing sprouting and die back or not. Glaring omission. Also no mention of the history of pruning and topping as utility line clearance pruning being taken by the practitioner from the utility to the residential pruning...for profit. Ugh.

Why do the KZfaqrs think it’s necessary to give a lengthy introduction…it’s not necessary and it’s repetitive. Losing audience with in first minute and a half. Just get into the content!

I was amazed this actually had sponsors. Terrible video. Even if I could have gotten past the boring graphics the vocals were horrid.