In article ,
Janet Galpin writes:
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| However, the RHS Pruning guide is a bit more helpful:
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| "Train as a central-leader standard, pruning when dormant, but do not
| remove laterals until they begin to die back as a result of shading.
| Never tip-prune to encourage dense growth".
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| It also says "Always choose a lanky, open young tree" which implies that
| lanky is good

Precisely the CONVERSE of what my Sunset book says :-(

I have tip-pruned one small branch, when the new shoots were c. 3" long,
as it was in the way. I shall see what happens.


Regards,
Nick Maclaren.