The Goldparmane is a cultivated apple variety that has earned a status as one of the best varieties within the dessert apples. The pruning requires a good knowledge of the growth of this variety, because with incorrect interventions not only the growth but also the crop yield suffers.
Older gold parmesans need to be kept in good shape
education cut
This technique is used to encourage the gold parmesan to develop a healthy crown in the first few years after planting. In doing so, you focus on the leading woody shoots, which form the crown structure and only rarely develop flowers. The goal is a crown formed by three strong central branches. Trim any branches growing from the main branches into the crown interior. Outwardly pointing fruit wood is spared.
Advanced Education
A crown can take between five and eight years to form. In the years that follow after the first educational phase, you focus on promoting three branches on each individual branch. There should be no competing shoots with the framework that have the same strength as the wood shoots. Such specimens are cut off at the base.
Tips for further scaffolding construction:
- Choose side branches that grow at a slight angle upwards
- Pay attention to an even distribution of these outgoing knots
- one branch each should branch off to the left, right and front
- all others pinch off a few centimeters of fruit shoots
maintenance cut
After the crown has been formed, you must maintain your gold parmesan in that shape with an annual pruning. When the fruiting wood is carrying apples, the leading branches droop under the weight. As a result, the tree develops numerous branches that strive upwards. These can develop fruit themselves in the coming year and break off under this load.
method
Trim the apple variety to create an even crown with branches pointing outward. The branches that strive towards the interior are removed. This pruning is also about removing such upward shoots. As a result, the wood often tends to develop vertically growing water shoots. These arise on top of the longguests. Since they have little potential for fruit development and unnecessarily cost the tree energy, they must be cut off completely.
taper cut
The gold parmane tends to age without pruning, which is why older trees need rejuvenation. Choose the main branches with care, because this apple variety only branches weakly. The buds should point outwards on each main branch so that the shoots don't grow in competition with the other branches. The apple tree tolerates an intensive intervention, because this stimulates growth and takes away the competitive pressure through equally strong branches.
tips
You can let off steam on the short shoots inside the crown without worrying, because the variety rarely bears fruit here. The fruit wood extends mainly over the edge areas.