When and how do you need to trim the branches off a pine tree?
I don't want to hear 'google it', because I've already 'googled it' and didn't find enough info. Plus, I'm curious to hear people's experiences with doing this.
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Fall is ok, when the sap is dormant,,, even just after other trees are losing leaves. That will give the cut time enough to mend. Certainly you can apply paint to the cut as well without great harm to the tree
My personal choice is take off anything lower than 6 ft, allowing that no one may run into a branch.
Loppers if the branches are small enough, a pruning saw, even on a handle if they are larger.
Be careful with climbing and or ladders leaned against any tree. A bow saw suggests you might have to do that.
I once lived in a house in the woods. I had to remove 48 pines just to be able to move about on the property.
Rev. Steven
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I find very early in the spring is bad because they "bleed" a lot of sap. Any other time of the year is O.K.
I use the largest size lopping shears I could find. With those I can cut branches as big as my wrist. It they are larger use a bow saw. You can pick up a bow saw at Walmart for $5 0r $6.
Cut the branches as close to the trunk as you can.
Trim the wilted branches by gardening scissors.
what i have always done is very ealier spring before sap is to bad-(march) or late fall when the sap is low in the tree and to me it just depends on how much you want to cut off ,
You need to know what kind of pines they are. If they are true pines, and not spruces, and you want just to slow down the growth and not take a huge amount of branch off, then wait a few weeks after the new growth emerges and then cut that. Pines do not generate new growth except from new shoots, so if you cut back too far, that limb will stop growing while the rest of the other limbs will keep growing. Spruces have buds all along the growth so you can cut them at the tip as long as there are still buds further back. It sounds like you want to do some more drastic pruning so remember, unless there is a small limb with new growth at the tips, once you cut the main limb, you will not get new growth from the old wood. I owned a christmas tree farm once and pruned a bunch of different types. Good luck.
not early spring and cut as close 2 the trunck as u can that's all i know
If it is pine tree then just cut the sucker off lol it will not hurt the tree at all. Pine is not like some hardwoods lol. It is very tough.
I am from Canada, so pines may be diffrent down in Houston, but as an ex forestry worker I can tell you DO NOT prune your evergreens in the spring!! Wait until summer/fall, when the sap runs slower. A tree gets everything it needs by the sap, and can be compared to blood in a human. You do not need to "paint" the places where you cut, the sap will cover and protect the rest of the tree. that being said when you do prune, prune right at the "joint" of the branches, and cut at an angle if it is on a branch, flush if you are trimming closer to the trunk. I would suggest trying to identify what type of "pines" you have before you do anything.
I like to cut pine trees just before Spring. While the trees are still dormant and are almost ready to start the sap production.
I cut them close to the trunk. (There is a growth where the limb starts, about an inch out, cut just on the outside of this, so that it will "heal" properly when cut).
I would put some fertilizer in the Spring, after you have cut these branches off, so that it has nutrients in which to heal itself more properly.
I wish you well...
Jesse