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Summer Plum Pruning

suntower
9 years ago

I have a 6 year old plum tree in Seattle. It's perhaps 7ft tall. It's one of those 'combo' deals: there are 4 varieties grafted on.

Last year, it sustained a broken main branch so I did no pruning (for some, completely unscientific reason I thought it might be good to let it 'recover'.)

This year it went NUTS with vertical shoots and almost no fruit.

So... suggestions for pruning it? It looks a mess.

My initial plan was to chop off ALL the vertical shoots down to the horizontal 'main lines', but I thought I'd ask here first.

TIA!

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