Drive types with a short definition - overview in alphabetical order
The following overview gives you all the important ones Drive types briefly suggests that home gardeners should be familiar with for skillful pruning:
- Bouquet: short branch stub with 5 or more flower buds; mostly on cherries and some types of plums
- Fruit shoot: perennial shoot that is richly garnished with flower buds and bears a correspondingly large amount of fruit
- Fruit skewer: very short, annual fruit shoot with a single flower bud on the tip
- Competitive instinct: annual branch that sprouts from the first bud below the top bud and competes with its bud
- Short shoot: a shoot less than 20 centimeters in length
- Long shoot: a shoot more than 20 centimeters
- Leading branch: supporting branch which, together with the central branch, forms the framework of a Treetop forms
- Stand shoot: stiff, upright, strong-growing shoot on the upper side of branches or on loose ones Fruitwood
- Water shot: a steep upward shoot made of old wood, a sleeping one eye or a game pad
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Correctly assess the age of an instinct - this is how it works
In order to reliably determine the value of a type of drive, you should be able to estimate the respective age. Gardeners differentiate between this and annual shoots, two-year shoots and old wood. You can read here the criteria according to which these three age groups differ:
Annual and annual shoots
There is talk of this and annual shoots as long as a branch grows in length during the first summer. If the shoot has completed its growth before winter or completes it with the following spring, it is considered an annual shoot. These shoots are characterized by unbranched growth with clearly visible buds. Popular summer bloomers, like that Butterfly lilac, bloom on this year's shoots and are therefore pruned sharply every spring. On spring bloomers such as spirals, the annual long shoots bear the most vital blossom wood. Here, too, the gardener picks up scissors once a year.
Biennial shoots
If the second summer draws to a close for a branch, it is added to the two-year shoots. As a rule, a two-year-old shoot can be identified by the fact that it has several annual side branches. In the course of the following years further branches develop. These are this, one and two years old, while the supporting shoot is visibly aging.
Old wood
If old wood is mentioned, it is mostly three-year-old and older shoots. Flowering shrubs that bloom on old wood are rare in the vegetable kingdom. A typical representative is the Witch hazel. The autumn or winter flowering shrub attaches its buds to this year's and perennial branches in summer, so that it is only a moderate one Clearance cut is subjected. Among the fruit trees there are apples and sweet cherries, which are several years old Fruitwood impress and are also very reluctant to cut.
Tips
The younger the shoots of a flowering shrub or fruit tree have to be in order to bloom and produce fruit, the more time-consuming pruning proves to be. Buddleia, Spierstrauch, Peaches and sour cherries depend on young blossom and fruit wood. These plant species should only be included in the planting plan if the gardener has the necessary time.