Fruit Tree Pruning Basics! 🌳Pruning your fruit trees is essential in keeping them healthy and manageable. 🍏Heading and Thinning Cuts are the cuts you need to practice and learn well. 🍎A Heading cut is one that is made somewhere along the branch or limb that reduces its size. 🌳This is especially helpful in managing the size of a dwarf fruit tree, they won’t stay small unless you prune them! 🍐It is best to make a heading cut above an outward facing bud to take advantage of the hormonal change

9 Dwarf Trees With High Yield Great For Small Areas

Start looking for ripe fruit (drupes) of the dwarf palmetto (Sabal minor) in October. These native Texas palm "trees" are found in wet, swampy areas prone to flooding. Their trunks are underground, with only their leaves sticking up above ground, so most people don't realize they are real palm trees. To 85% of the popultion, these fruit, when ripe juicy black, taste like dates. However, about 15% of the population have a mutation in their taste buds which picks up an odd, unpleasent flavor. I fa