Many
questions are asked about pruning lemon trees especially if it has become to
large for the space.
The
answer is simple. In spring when the fruit is ripe always pick the fruit with a
pair of secateurs. Harvest the fruit by cutting the small branch that the fruit
is on. Cut it back to the nest branch or leaf. This way means that each time
you pick a lemon throughout the summer a small piece of the tree will be
removed. Later in the summer it will be possible to remove some longer branches
as there will be less fruit in the tree.
Occasionally
there will be longer branches to remove. Cut these back to the junction of
another branch to fit the shape of the tree required.
1 comment:
I had to remove a lemon tree from the Red Zone, and so I pruned it bare using a chainsaw, removed it with a digger, and replanted it.
Would there have been a better way?
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