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I like to share with you one of techniques used a lot for my pomegranate. I call it as " Soft breaking technique". Soft breaking tech is only used for the branches which is not too young or adult. Maybe "teen" ? You can see the color of the branch. When it purple red, it is too young; if it is brown, it is adult.
Why do I have to use this technique? For the shoot is growing too long, I want to slow it down, so the energy of the tree can be diverted to the weaker branch. Instead of prune this strong shoot back, I still keep it, but bend it down through "soft breaking technique", since I don't want to slow down the metabolism system of the tree aggressively at this time of the year.
How do I do that? I use my index fingers and thumbs to hold the branch at lower part and bend it down (same manner while we bend the branch in wiring).
The tree with a lot of new shoots.
Ah, it has some flower buds at this time
Applying the soft breaking technique
Finished.
After 6 hours, I rechecked the tree. No sign of dehydration yet!
Bonhe
Why do I have to use this technique? For the shoot is growing too long, I want to slow it down, so the energy of the tree can be diverted to the weaker branch. Instead of prune this strong shoot back, I still keep it, but bend it down through "soft breaking technique", since I don't want to slow down the metabolism system of the tree aggressively at this time of the year.
How do I do that? I use my index fingers and thumbs to hold the branch at lower part and bend it down (same manner while we bend the branch in wiring).
The tree with a lot of new shoots.
Ah, it has some flower buds at this time
Applying the soft breaking technique
Finished.
After 6 hours, I rechecked the tree. No sign of dehydration yet!
Bonhe