The Mirabelle plum from Nancy - also known as the golden plum - is one of the most abundantly fruiting types of Mirabelle plums. It rewards proper care with large yellow fruits. This includes, above all, the right cut of your Nancy Mirabelle.
Mirabelle Nancy is best pruned in early spring BEFORE bud formation
Caring for Nancy Mirabelle properly
In principle, all mirabelle plums are considered to be fairly undemanding fruit trees. Aside from sensibly selected site conditions, you don't have to do much to enjoy a magnificent flowering of the Mirabelle plum every year. The Nancy variety is characterized by lushness: in addition to a very opulent harvest of outstandingly aromatic fruit under ideal conditions, its characteristics also include intensive and rapid growth. The cut is therefore of particular importance for the Mirabelle from Nancy. While young trees of up to two years of age are primarily focused on adequate watering and enough sun, you should make sure to thin out the crown regularly after the first youth. In this way you free the tree from superfluous loads and can look forward to the harvest of many ripe mirabelle plums.
The best period for the cut
The period before flowering, which takes place from April to May, is considered the ideal phase for pruning. In the case of the heavily fruiting Nancy Mirabelle, the weeks after the harvest in August and September are also ideal. The most common type of cut is the so-called maintenance cut. The focus here is on thinning out the crown. In addition to this care, which takes place once or twice a year, you can also remove water shoots more frequently. You can recognize these shoots, which are unnecessarily exhausting for the tree, by the fact that they grow steeply in height. Old trees can also be brought back to life and budding with an intensive rejuvenation pruning. In general, the stronger the tree, the more moderate the cut should be. Weak mirabelle plums, on the other hand, benefit if you cut them harder.
How to cut the Nancy Mirabelle
Find all the dead shoots of your Mirabelle plum tree and carefully cut them out. You should also remove inward growing shoots, water shoots and any crossing branches. The shoots growing from the roots also compete with fruiting. You can therefore remove them up to the trunk without hesitation.