Tomorrow I get my students back, and their babies. Rumor has it I will have two new babies -- possibly more later? I looked at the class list with the teacher of recford but she has an ELD (English language development, pullout support for second-language learners, what we have instead of bilingual education nowadays thanks to the Texan influence
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Where I'm from, you only prune a fruit tree once a year, usually sometime after the fruit has been picked, and you definitely don't prune during the summer once the blossoms are set, that's the time for the tree to put nutrient into the fruit and its root system. Is it different here, or different for peaches?
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Apricots especially do not want to be spring pruned at all, because they bear fruit on the newest wood (I just relearned this and I think that's why I haven't had a heavy year lately).
The other fruits almost all bear on two or three year wood, so they like a bit of winter pruning.
In our area, anything in the rose family, if it thrives at all, must be summer pruned at least a bit or you will be living in Sleeping Beauty's castle in no time.
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