In tune to the moon = harvest?

[ProfessorM]

Berry trees or do you mean bushes. What exactly do you have. It helps to know.

[Goose]

Thanks for taking the time to share great info, appreciated! One more question,,, do the same rules apply to string beans?

Gilly, I have have an excellent book called 'Pruning made easy' by Lewis Hill you can use, the book is a visual guide to when and how to prune everything..... ooor ask someone ya know.
Are you referring to autumn olive berries as in the pic?

[justplugit]

[QUOTE=Goose; One more question,,, do the same rules apply to string beans? [/QUOTE]

Goose Rav is waaay ahead of me on this stuff, but the rule of thumb for me has been to wait for the maples to leaf out before planting string beans.

[bloocrab]

These are the ones offered at the local Home Depots....

I believe they're raspberry bushes I guess.....black, white and traditional red ?

Thanks Professor/Goose.

[redcrbbr]

Gilly , from what i understand, plant branches on like rasberry and black berry will only produce fruit once and should be cut back in the spring to allow for new growth.

[Raven]

when you prune

and your removing the tips ... when you do that your sending the growth compounds down to the segment below it establishing that as the leader... and that stimulates the majority of the growth to happen there... so you want to do it so it compliments the shape

of the bush or plant and the branch is aiming towards the outside
of the plant in the direction you want it to go

[bloocrab]

I added a picture -

Should I "A" - Cut the larger branches ONLY and as Raven says, trim it in a way that I want it to grow, perhaps also tying the bush tighter with some vine for a tighter bush.

OR ~

Should I "B" - Cut every branch visible, and follow the same growth patterns as I did in "A"

...and should I be making my cuts at an angle or straight across, or does it matter much?

...Goose, let's trade books.

[PRBuzz]

Originally Posted by Raven

when you prune

and your removing the tips ... when you do that your sending the growth compounds down to the segment below it establishing that as the leader... and that stimulates the majority of the growth to happen there... so you want to do it so it compliments the shape

of the bush or plant and the branch is aiming towards the outside
of the plant in the direction you want it to go

If I remember my botany classes: what you are actually doing by removing the growing tip (apical meristem) you remove the source of auxins which inhibit the growth from the lateral buds. When the tip is removed, the lateral buds start to grow and in some plants one of the lateral buds becomes dominate and produces the auxin which inhibits the lateral buds again. In other plants most/all of the lateral buds continue to develop, each with an active tip which inhibits lateral buds on each stem.