Tips Pruning Deciduous Trees

Prune deciduous trees when they are dorminant; Febuary and March. NEVER PRUNE A TREE DURING THE PERIOD FROM BUD EXPANSION TO FULL LEAF EXPANSION. (i.e. foughly trom April throught May.) A tree uses a very large amount of reserved energy to push out the new leaves and expand them fully. Prunning causes more loss of energy, due to the need to recover from the wound. This leads to more stress on the tree. If the tree is diseased or stressed by drought or flood the tree could die.