APPLE and PEAR PRUNING - February is the TIME Lots of questions about apple and pear pruning. Here is the extensive informational narrative with some images from Mississippi State University Extension Service. Shaping the branch structure of fruit trees is much easier if you start the process soon after you plant the orchard. The goal of pruning apple and pear trees is to create a central leader tree with several whorls of scaffold branches growing from the trunk in tiers about every 24 to...
