You prune: when, where and what to prune

In almost all the interior plants, you suit to carry out the pruning when you arrive the spring, since the increment begins in this time of the year. However, the shafts that stand out can be pruned in autumn if they interfere or they boost the plant.

The most important thing regarding the tool to use to prune, is that this is taper in way of avoiding damages to the elected plant to make it. A knife, a scissor, they are excellent instruments, both stop plants of soft shaft. For the woody shafts, on the other hand, they are necessarily required podaderas.

Incorrect many ways exist of pruning, among them the following ones:
- too much near the edge
- too much far from the edge
- in horizontal (court angle in the mistaken address) form.

The correct form of pruning is this: the cut when pruning should be carried out slightly above the node, in lateral branchings and in an oblique way.

Not there is a you rule general to prune, the advice is to prune the way plants of accommodating them to the form that you want to maintain or to create. Nevertheless, certain recommendations that it are worthwhile to keep in mind exist. For example, the plants sometimes end up being too big or to be excessively pruned, or it can be given that some path begins to grow in a to tie drawback, breaking the balance of the vegetable. What should be avoided then, on one hand you are, the extreme sizes, either very small or very big, and for the other one the disordered increment, trying that all the paths go in the same address.

On the other hand, you seek advice to retire the withered flowers or you frequently dry off, to motivate to the production of new flowers on the part of the plant.

When cutting woody plants, always have present that are safer to prune the increment of the previous year and not the most frequent.

As for the plants of long shaft, I eat the ivy that you/they show up very big spaces among your sheets in occasions, for example you are advisable that you prune the shafts affected to allow to the new ones that grow in a more compact way.