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Can anyone tell me the best time to prune my five year old Magnolia? Can I
prune now? Should I wait until winter? We are warm enough so that it is an evergreen (doesn't lose leaves in the fall). I live outside of Philadelphia Pa. Thanks for any info you can give me. |
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February is what our extension office told me. (Of course too, I had to talk
to three different people to find someone who knew). I always take what I cut off and start more trees. A pot, vermiculite, a plastic bag and some roottone.....So far, so good. I have had great success.. You will get bugs and disease if you do it now. Good luck..... Susie "Jim Hamer" wrote in message ... Can anyone tell me the best time to prune my five year old Magnolia? Can I prune now? Should I wait until winter? We are warm enough so that it is an evergreen (doesn't lose leaves in the fall). I live outside of Philadelphia Pa. Thanks for any info you can give me. |
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As others have noted, winter is the best time. Actually, late winter-early
spring works best for me in central NJ (just a little north of you). Magnolia grandiflora, the evergreen magnolia, takes well to any sort of pruning. You can cut branches back to bare stubs and new growth will develop. If you just want to make the tree more dense, you can wait until buds begin to develop in the spring and remove the terminal bud of each branch. This will induce 2-5 dormant buds to develop at the end of the branch. You do not need to prune flower buds. Branch tips that produce a flower bud will naturally produce multiple new vegitative growths. --beeky Jim Hamer wrote: Can anyone tell me the best time to prune my five year old Magnolia? Can I prune now? Should I wait until winter? We are warm enough so that it is an evergreen (doesn't lose leaves in the fall). I live outside of Philadelphia Pa. Thanks for any info you can give me. |
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