Cómo podar un árbol del pistacho || Poda en árbol de 5 y 7 años || Poda del pistachero con ADRIÁN

TREE PRUNING EVOLUTION IN 2022 -    • Evolución de PODA DEL PISTACHERO con ADRIÁ...   TRAINING PRUNING    • Poda del pistachero // Formación del árbol...   Hello pistachio growers!!! As we continue in February, the ideal time to prune pistachio trees, in the following video we will see how to prune a five-year-old pistachio tree and another seven-year-old tree. We want to monitor these trees in the summer to see how they have developed both in the branches and in the fruit. But before continuing, I would like to tell you that the person who will be teaching the class will not be me, but Adrián Román. Adrián is a resident of the town of Quero, Toledo. He has been growing pistachios for over 20 years, is a great professional as well as a wonderful person. Therefore, I want to teach you another pruning technique, as I particularly like it because of the logic behind it. As I said, it's just another technique; it won't be the best or the worst. Above all, it's about providing information on another technique to enrich pistachio cultivation and increase awareness about it. The pistachio tree you're going to prune below is a five-year-old tree, composed of Cornicabra rootstock and the cultivar Kerman. It was planted with a grafted stock and also receives additional irrigation, providing a large supply of worm castings. As we can see, this tree has a lot of pistachio fruit and many vegetative branches. What's normally done is leave all the fruit for next year and only prune the vegetative branches. This year it will give us all the pistachio fruit we've left, but next year we'll notice significant alternate bearing. Therefore, we should clear more branches and leave at most three branches per stalk, always evaluating the buds we want to open up and cover sparse areas. All interior branches, including those at the bottom, will be removed. The clear idea is to open the tree as if it were your hand, extending upwards. If we close the tree too soon, we can create a microclimate that is very detrimental to an organic system. Thus, the idea of ​​opening the tree is to let in the sun and air. Once the tree is pruned, we can see a large number of flower and vegetative buds, leaving the tree very clean and open. The next tree we're going to look at is a seven-year-old tree. I was present last year with Adrián, who pruned it and took photos. I showed these photos to several people, and well… there were some disagreements. When they saw the short pruning, they said it could harm the harvest. Since everyone has their own working methods, it caused a lot of rejection, something I disagree with because the ideal is to share our working methods and be able to improve our cultivation. I like this pistachio pruning technique because we understand the tree. What we do is train the tree from a young age to create a good framework and leave the branches necessary for its proper development and to be able to bear the fruit we leave for it. If we start by leaving too many and very long branches in the first few years, what we are doing is creating a canopy that is too large for a tree with little ground support. What can happen is that in summer, strong gusts of wind can knock it down. We must understand what the pistachio tree is telling us. If we see that the branch extensions are small, it is a symptom that the tree does not have enough vigor to bear the fruit we leave for it. Another symptom of a tree with little vigor is that the flower buds have been aborted. Therefore, if we do not prune properly, we will likely end up with a higher percentage of empty fruit. Ultimately, everything is an integral part of everything, and we must take all these aspects into account to perform good pruning. I hope this pruning video has been helpful. I'd like to thank Adrián for his contribution and for allowing me to film his plantation so I can share it with all of you. After all, this is what this crop is all about: having a wealth of information to assess pruning techniques and continue adding value to this crop. Having a wealth of knowledge will allow us to manage our pistachio plantations much more efficiently. Best regards, and thank you very much!