STRUCTURAL PRUNING FOR YOUNG TREES

Giving trees early attention and care helps maximize their aesthetic shape, while minimizing your long-term expense.
 

Trees “know how to grow” in a forest, where most sunlight does not reach the forest floor. When you plant trees in an urban setting, however, the overabundance of sunlight relative to a native forest setting encourages trees to grow out (sideways), not up. Train pruning young trees attempts to better simulate natural forest growth through branch management or pruning. Young trees have temporary branches and permanent branches. Keeping the temporary branches small for future removal, establishing a central leader (trunk), and also establishing permanent branching for the future canopy are the main goals of train pruning. Below is our general approach to ensure your tree has the proper structure to thrive for decades to come.

MATURE TREE PRUNING

Safety, tree health, and tree aesthetics are the goals of mature tree pruning, general priorities are:

• Remove dead or broken branches
• Reduce potential for storm damage
• Raise lower branches for clearance
• Thin branches to increase light penetration through the tree
• Reduce branch end weigh

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