How to Prune a 2 Year Old Fruit Tree - Formative Pruning with Adam's Apples Nursery

How to prune a 2 year old fruit tree with Tom Nancarrow from Adam's Apples Nursery. This is called formative pruning and is the best way to create a strong structural framework of branches in the first 2 or 3 years after planting. It is the same technique for pruning young apple trees, pear trees, plum and cherry trees. It is basically pruning the previous year's growth back by half of its length. By the fourth winter after planting you can start maintenance or renewal pruning, which is a slightly different technique. By this time you should be getting fruit from your tree!