ABS 360 Study Guide - Fruit Tree, Arborist, Pruning Shears
Document Summary
In this topic, you will learn more about one of the most common landscape maintenance tasks; pruning. Pruning plants has both a technical and artistic side allowing us to direct the growth of plants. In addition to readings in your textbook, there a short reading on pruning and tree growth that covers material that is not in your textbook that is covered in the video. Read the following section of the textbook and the supplemental reading. You are now ready to watch the video program for this section entitled pruning. Click on the video program link in the folder on the course website and watch the ~ 30 minute programs. Be familiar with the term open center (vase) pruning. What should be the angle of a pruning cut: know how to make the following types of pruning cuts: heading cut, thinning cut.
