*This is a quick guide to pruning compiled from the various sources, as well as my own experience on my farm.

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As you move between tree to tree, and branch to branch, think about your pruning in this order.

Five Essential Protective Wear and Accessories:

1. Gloves

2. Goggles

3. A Medical Kit in your bag or somewhere nearby

4. A Pouch or bag to carry cuttings, with plastic pouches to carry diseased specimens for examination

5. Some kind of sanitizing liquid for your tools (you’ll use it before you start, whenever you switch from a diseased plant to a healthy one, or when you switch between plant species, and when you finish)

Five basic shapes:

1. Central Leader

2. Modified Leader

3. Open Branching

4. Coppicing

5. Pollarding

Ten types of growths that need pruning/correction:

1. Flowers, Fruit and Budding branches (only in very young fruit trees)