Spur pruning and thinning

Part three of Stephen Hayes video series “The Fruitwise guide to pruning apple trees”

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Spur pruning. Fruit buds turn into spurs after a few years then get crowded. Overgrown spur systems need to be thinned. Cut out the lower groups to produce only 3 or 4 apples per system instead of 8 or 9

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