Is that forbidden or useful?

Walnut tree as a sensitive plant

The fact is that the walnut is sensitive to cutting measures. It is a plant that is too strong Blossoms tends. Therefore, if you want to cut, you have to wait for the right time.

Note: The right time for cutting work is late summer, between late August and mid-September.

Who too early or too late with the Cutting the noble nut begins, risks serious damage in some cases. In the worst case scenario, a walnut tree can die from wrong handling. The wrong approach naturally relates not only to the point in time, but also to the activity itself. Professional cutting is essential!

But: do you even have to cut the walnut?

In and of itself, a walnut tree does not need regular pruning, at least not for the reasons from which other plants are pruned, i.e. to increase the yield and / or growth to stimulate. In fact, the walnut thrives best when allowed to grow undisturbed.

But what can sometimes be necessary is a topiary - for example, if the walnut tree sprouts unsightly branches or grows in a bad direction. In such cases, you should already carry out a parenting or corrective cut.

In short, cutting the walnut tree is not prohibited per se. However, due to the sensitivity of the plant, one should be careful weigh upwhether a cut has to be made or whether one can do without it.

Practical tips for cutting a walnut

Here are some specific tips on how to cut a walnut:

• Do not place the pruning too far away from the shoot or too close to the bud
• always cut at a slight angle
• Eliminate steeply growing shoots
• Remove shoots that compete with the framework (the leading shoots)
• Adjust scaffold drives of different lengths to one another

Important: What you should in principle do without with a walnut tree is a Radical cut.

In addition, it does not make sense to keep the wounds of the tree after it has been cut Tree wax(€ 18.62 at Amazon *) and similar means (this is dangerous!). The walnut has extremely good self-healing powers that you should trust.