Re: fall-spring pruning was: Dividing Knowledge
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- Subject: Re: fall-spring pruning was: Dividing Knowledge
- From: M* T*
- Date: Thu, 9 Sep 1999 04:42:00 -0400
You're right, Heather, dormancy is dormancy. The only danger in late fall
pruning is a warm snap that wakes the plant up enough to put on growth - as
pruning always stimulates growth - and then, of course, it gets colder n'
billy bejeezus and freezes the new growth.
Only time during dormancy that I understand it is NOT good to prune is when
the temperatures are below freezing - something about damaging stems, I
think...of course, only a total masochist would be standing out in the
garden pruning in below freezing temps....
Marge Talt, zone 7 Maryland
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> From: Heather McCullough <tonks@golden.net>
> Date: Thursday, September 09, 1999 12:02 AM
>
> A question to go with the fall/spring division thread. What is the
> difference between pruning plants or shrubs in late fall when the plant
> is dormant or in early spring before it is growing? I always assumed
> dormancy was dormancy without regard to season. Apparantly I have a few
> shrubs that I have been pruning in the wrong season but they do keep on
> performing. If I pruned at the proper time maybe they would perform
> better?
>
> Thanks,
> Heather
> Zone 5b,
> Elmira, Ont
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