I appreciate your interest in pruning. I have a few pointers. When you use pruning shears, the blade should be closest to the portion you are going to retain so that you have a nice smooth cut that heals well. Many of your cuts have the anvil towards the portion, you are retaining,thereby crushing the vulnerable branch collar or the tissue at the end of the heading cut. if you want your tree to live a long time, it’s important not to cut off more than 20% of the live vegetation per year. They can of course survive when you remove more than that, but it is stressful to them because their food supply has been greatly reduced as the leaves provide the food for the tree. When the tree is able, it will produce a lot of water sprouts, some call them suckers, in order to replace that lost food supply. This fast replacement growth is subsequently weak. Trees with few or no dormant buds under the bark are unable to replace enough of this food source and are stressed and often subsequently die early. Peach trees, for example have an average lifespan of only nine years due to the lack of dormant buds to make up for over pruning. apple trees fare better due to having many water sprout sites. Heading cuts should only be used as a last resort to completely removing a branch or a leader.Heading cuts can be valuable in training young Wood. When trees are over pruned they are stressed and stressed trees invite insect infestation. The strongest tree form is the one that nature developed for trees over millennia, that is as a strong central leader. If you go to the forest, my teacher, you will see that most trees grow with one strong central leader. Most of the pruning that I do is to make up for the fact that the tree is not in the forest, and I try to mitigate the problems that causes. Heading cuts heal very slowly, which allows rot to get in and carbohydrates to dissipate from the trees reserves which are stored inside the wood. Most homeowners would do well to plant true dwarf trees, rather than semi dwarf or standard trees. True dwarf trees need extremely limited pruning and begin to produce well within 3 to 4 years. Go to the forest grasshopper for she is a good teacher!

You inspired me to plant a mini orchard for my family. In January, we planted 2 figs, a 4 in 1 apple, a fruit salad (apricot, plum, peach, nectarine), a pear, a donut peach, and a mango. I did my 1st pruning cuts just yesterday and I don’t think I would have had the confidence to do so if I had not seen your summer pruning video. Watching this video today is like looking into the future. I hope my trees grow as well as yours and look forward to all your future videos.

Kyle, I'm a Master Gardener and on tons of gardening sites. I post your vids very often due to your way of demonstrating and natural talking style. Many people are afraid of making that first cut.

I see a true passion when u wait seasons and put entire in single vedio.🎉really appreciate ur work in ur garden alongwise ur effort u put in ur vedios 4 us.thanks .

Thank you for a another great video. I really like how you showed the past pruning done on all these trees so we can see the growth over time. Like the way how you explained in detail what and which branches to prune. Learned a lot and give me more confidence to prune my year old fruit trees. Thank you.

Your videos are, by far, are the best series I have ever seen. As commented by others, your before and after, cause and effect, approach is an extremely effective learning tool! In addition, I have never seen any pruning video where the presenter had a more consistent (and accurate) use of terms (heading, thinning, tipping)! Thank you for all your work! One suggestion for future videos. Try and work in the filming of how you use iso-propyl alcohol spray on your pruning shears as you move from tree to tree. It would be a good reminder to all of us for preventing disease transfer in the orchard! Keep up the exceptional work!

You really do have the best fruit tree pruning videos. This helps me a lot.

I’m growing Many fruit trees and have always only pruned in late winter. After reading a book about how to keep fruit trees small by pruning in mid June I’ve learned that winter pruning causes more growth and summer pruning controls the size. Thanks for a good video.

Such a great video! The then and now editing is a huge help to see just how they grew based on the cuts you made. Extremely helpful for conceptualizing what you’re teaching here. We just put in a mini orchard and really appreciate this. Thank you!

Honestly, I’ve watched many fruit tree pruning videos but yours are super helpful. Thank you!

Thanks really helpful prune my fruit trees

Thanks so much for taking the time to do this…. I planted 13 trees today and I still have more to plant….. you’ve helped me out tremendously!

I wish this video existed a year ago when we started pruning our fig and peach trees. Makes me realize how wrong we were.

Your confidence with the cuts is fantastic!

My trees have all been planted and we are getting ready to go into autumn so I wanted to prune them before winter hits. I'm so glad I found your videos because now I have the confidence and the fear is less when it comes to cutting back my fruit trees.

Just found you as we're working on a small orchard garden in our backyard here in the north of Aotearoa New Zealand. A new experience so I've been looking for helpful tips. So many You-tubers (especially in the U.S. if I may respectfully say so, though not so much in the gardening section, I hasten to add), are so busy promoting themselves with show-biz style presentation and whizz-bang shouty histrionics, that it is such a pleasure to find your low key, practical and down to earth and detailed explanations of what is needed and why. Easy to listen to and a tremendous help. Many thanks and best wishes from the bottom of the world.

I love the style of your videos. So informative and helpful. I too liked the flashbacks to earlier videos to help visualize. Thanks for your time!

It's so helpful to see the progression of the pruning over time. Thanks!

I’ve been in the (slow) process of establishing a sustainable urban homestead on our property over the past four years, beginning with garden plots and only recently adding fruit trees this past spring. That makes me a total fruit tree n00b. I planted my first Wonderful pom, Santa Rosa plum, and Black Jack fig trees, and I’ve watched a LOT of pruning how-to videos. This is by far the most informative and comprehensive video I’ve watched about it. Thank you for your thorough explanations on why and how the pruning methods benefit the growth of the tree. You’ve got a new subscriber!

Definitely the best pruning video on the Internet. Thanks to you before I made any cuts I watched many videos on KZfaq and none had me feeling more confident to do my cuts than yours. My mini orchard consists of 8 trees. And some of them are 4-5 years old and some are 2-3 and 1.5 years old.... Here in 9b Arizona I'm trying my best and thanks to you and your knowledge I appreciate you

Thank you for putting in the time and effort to show the progression over time in a single video! Huge like! 👍👍👍

I had the courage to prune our young peach and nectarine trees after watching 5+ videos from your channel. Thank you Kyle!

very information and educative... thanks for enlightening the thining cut and heading cut of pruning .

Wow! I have been watching videos after videos trying to get an idea of how to prune a couple young trees I have. This one video of yours is IT! Perfect! Thank you!

I'm so grateful for then and now. I have huge out of control small orchard here that I didn't know I could safely approach in the summer. Will use these guidelines and keep following. Probably the most informative and concise source I've found yet. Much love for this channel ♡

Can't wait for my tree deliveries this spring. You are one amazing pruner and farmer. Thanks for all your wisdom and great teaching methods.

Hi, thanks for the intructions on pruning. Your method is very clear and that helps for people who don't know much about pruning new trees.

Have just watched 3 videos of people who think they can prune and I hate to say because you are a yank, that you are the only one of the 3 that prunes the right way and I'm a fruit grower of many decades and I know how to prune as I learned from the manual. I have just watched old and young prune far to far from the bud which will leave it to die and likely kill the tree as well.

Got my nectaplum today!! I have planted 15 trees into my orchard i am so excited thanks for your videos they are very helpful!

You inspired me so much thank you I have inherited a farm I'm looking forward to planting lots of trees

Great series. Thanks for taking the time to include prior clips so it’s easy to follow over time. Well done!

Your video is so educational. I am 30 years old and have been farming nearly 2,000 acres in the central valley for 10 years now and can literally count the number of farmers who have the knowledge of pruning you describe. Keep up the amazing work I definitely learned something new!!

It took 7 years before I got fruit .I have semi dwarf apple trees, the tree coming out of the ground about 3-4 dia. We have 24 inches of snow more coming next week.

Just found this series, and man oh man it is incredible! So helpful and I feel confident to be able to start a small fruit tree grove now

🙏best pruning video. The best 🙏

I’m glad you added your location, I started thinking I should prune, but I’m NOT in the same zone as Sacramento haha

Been looking forward to this update! Love watching the young fruit trees grow.

Another amazing video! Thank you for all the info you so generously share with us.

Hi from New Zealand. I have many fruit trees and have just been sort of winging it over the last few years, slowly but slowly i have been understanding fruit trees with alot of shaking my head by the way the trees have turned out!! I have just watched your videos and its the most clearest directions that i have seen on pruning fruit trees, i feel like i now understand the whole process now thank you

Thank you. I am so happy to find out how to prune my green fig. It’s huge and has way too many branches.

Watching this video gave me the confidence to cut my trees😊

Man. I can’t tell you how much you’ve helped me. I have a new 23 fruit tree orchard and I always get confused. You really broke it down. I know I can do it now!!!

Thank you. Now I can prune my one and only peach tree. Hope to have a decent harvest come June.

You are the reason we’re trying out small fruit trees on our suburban lot in Colorado! Thanks and I hope to see more videos soon!

Thank you!!! Your video was so helpful for my husband and I, this is our first time pruning our fruit trees, very nervous, yet your video made it simple and easy to do. Glad your located in Central Valley as are we, Modesto! Also we too have a backyard orchard, Love it!

Mate I have been watching video after video on how to prune my trees, and you nailed it. Thanks so much for your great content.

This was fantastic. This series has helped out tremendously. I started my backyard orchard last year and a lot of videos talk about these concepts, but this was the first that really resonated with me. Thanks!

Best videos on pruning that I have watched, I have started my own orchard and your videos have been an inspiration and my guide. Thank you so much, I look forward to many more to come. I am watching all the way from South Africa 🇿🇦 .

Your instructions are awesome, have a plum tree, gave me 5, lol list 9. Will try this pruning after I pick. My hubby is going to get a heart attack. 😅

Great video. I'm new to pruning so it PAINS me to see such nice growth cut off but I understand it will promote more fruit production in the long run.

Great to see an update! Your videos are so helpful, thanks for sharing.

Seriously though.. that was really good man.. I'm fired up....

Great video. Didn't know your from Sacramento as well. Now you give me a great idea of what exactly can grow here in the valley.

Your videos inspired me to plant a variety of stone fruit, fig, and a pomegranate on our small property in Solano County, and also the confidence to actually prune them! Not wanting to "mess them up" is a real issue for newbies and seeing the progress from initial pruning through management pruning and how they impact the long-term structure is super helpful! Thanks!

I was excited to see your update. We watched your prior 2 videos and learned so much! Thank you for sharing this information!

You have the best pruning videos. I have watched several and checked out "How To Grow A Little Fruit Tree" from the library 2 different times, but your videos helped me understand what the heck I'm doing so much faster. Great video shots so we can see, great explanations, love the progression videos, and really everything. Keep the videos of all the things you do coming!

I learnd alot I have a 90 tree appel orchard with this good advice my trees are growing good I have drip irregation and a 5000L tank that I use for fertalizer greetings from Namibia.

You are a wonderful teacher, and your videos are some of my favorite! Wow! Look at those beautiful orange fruits behind your apple tree! Gorgeous!

Great info, Kyle! Just about to do this with our dwarf peaches. We may actually get some fruit for the first time this year. Cheers to living in a place where February and a t-shirt can coexist. 🤣

Absolutely wonderful pruning videos! I have already learned so very much to improve my small orchard. Fighting a bit of fungal disease on my nectarine and peach. Will watch your video on spraying the copper solution. Lost two cherry trees last year here in zone 9a. Summer was a scorcher as you know. Any tips for dealing with heat & disease management is always welcome! Thank you so very much for your help! 🙏🙏🙏

Very well educational video. I feel more confident when pruning trees now. Thank you.

Very interesting explanation. Thanks Brother!

Your pruning videos are the best & most informative I have seen. Thank you so much.

Great video I'm starting to prune some young trees now and was totally lost. You are a great instructor. Subscribed

I wasn't brave enough to cut that much off my trees until I saw this👍

Thank you for your video. The best video I have seen. I actually don’t have any questions.

Nice job, learned lots, thank you

This was so helpful...Loved your inserts with editing:) Thank you:)

Great video for a great fruit yard. I like your pruning rule by cutting the leading branch of the trees and giving them a bowl shape. After loaded with fruits they will turn in a umbrella shape. I love your garden, looks great with different fruit trees. You are lucky living in California, nice weather. I saw oranges, figs etc in your garden but I didn't see the grape vine which do really well in your area.

Lots & lots of cuts! 17:34 Not for the faint of heart. 19:40 But - Thanks for the dated and time lapsed video showing the past pruning sessions and very detailed explanations. It is good to see the growth in one season. I am gathering courage to do some pruning.

Definitely worth the way I’ve been waiting for this videooooooooo!!!!!!!!!!!!! 🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰

i have lots of space for growth. i just planted 13 trees. i dont even know what to expect for the first couple years. plenty of space to let them run free. i do find pruning therapeutic. i feel like this, while great for your purpose, would be over pruning for me. maybe over the years after seeing it first hand, ill understand growth patterns. thanks for the videos bud tree count 2 apple, anne and dorcet 2 pear, pinapple and 2 peach 2 orange, red navel and native sweet 2 plum 2 fig 1 lemon

I love all the detail in this video. This is exactly what I needed!

You could be a career KZfaqr. I don’t know what it is but you’ve got it 🙌

Hi Kyle! Very helpful to watch your video how to prune fruit tree! I have huge big Asian Pear need to be pruned! Please tip me more to do ‼️

I wonder how great your videos are! I saw it for the first time today. I look forward to watching more of your videos. I live in Japan. I grow a lot of fruit trees, but it was very difficult to harvest because they grew too tall. It's the rainy season now, so when the rainy season is over, I'm going to cut the trees like in the video. By the way, I was very envious of the good condition of the saplings that you purchased at the beginning. I subscribe to your channel and look forward to your videos. Please keep doing a good job!

Hi, from Creece!!! From Clyfada city.Nice job in the garden!!!!!!!

I like your lawn! Thanks for this video, very useful

I have been loving these videos (new subscriber)! You are a great teacher and you will single-handedly save our orchard. Thank you!

You're a legend. Thanks for the perfect video as usual.

Helpful and inspiring. Thanks a lot

I like the sound of the cutting. It's ASMR 😅

I am so excited for your next pruning vid! I've learned so much and gained so much confidence from the knowledge you provided! Thank you so much for your help!

Thank you for the BEST pruning tutorial that I have seen. Although I have subscribed to your channel I’m saving this video to my gardening folder for quick and easy reference.

I haven’t seen a new post in ages and I’ve been waiting for a fruit tree update.

Great videos!! Thanks for taking us newbies along for the ride. We’ve started with 7 apple, 1 pear (need one more!), a cherry and a plum. Same age as yours so we’re on the same page!!

Watching your video I stopped being afraid of my fruit trees. I pruned my lifr away and even lemons and quinces which had never flowered are beginning to get loaded. Thank you.

Great tips. Surely educative.

This has been so educational to watch the progression of your orchard. I have learned more about pruning fruit trees from you than during my whole life previously.

Awesome Time Lapsed video, showing all season triming techniques. Thank you

thanks for a really clear pruning

This is the one top shop I need for my backyard orchard. Subscribed!

Amazing videos! I've been working on my orchard layout for about a year now, and finally, this next week, I'm getting my first 7 trees! The plan is eventually have about 40 trees in total, apples, peaches, cherry, almonds, plums, plumcots, plus grapes, cold hardy kiwis and more! Plus I'm planning a garden for next year. All of this is on our acreage about 15 minutes from our current home where we will be building out house in about 3 years. My goal is hopefully by the time our house is built (4-ish years) we will move in and have a nice established garden and orchard! Your videos have been an IMMENSE help when planning to start planting our trees here in about 2 weeks (trying to get away from these hard frosts we have had lol). Looking forward to more of your videos!!

You are an artist! Brilliant vid and great host!

Great video with lots of helpful info, Kyle! Thank you! ☺️ I am looking forward to seeing everything you will do this upcoming growing season. Also: your video production is just awesome, spot-on filming and the quality is superb 👏🏻

Nice, you have new content I miss you already hehe, love month I feel in ❤️ to this 👦

Very useful and practical information in this video. Thank you.

Great advice and video. I planted 1 peach 2 pairs and 1. Plum , mid summer. I’m new to this and probably did it wrong. Big & deep holes and dark soil from the yard

Awesome video mate 👍 well done

Thank you . Planted mine with yours. Thanks for the follow up.