The Nancy mirabelle plum - also called the golden plum - is one of the particularly lushly fruiting species among the mirabelle plum trees. It rewards appropriate care with large yellow fruits. This includes, above all, the correct cut of your Nancy Mirabelle.
When and how do I cut the Nancy mirabelle plum?
For an optimal cut of the Mirabelle Mirabelle of Nancy, you should remove dead shoots, shoots growing inwards, water shoots, crossing branches and root shoots. The ideal period for pruning is before flowering (April-May) and after harvest (August-September).
Nancy Mirabelle care properly
Basically, all mirabelle plums are considered to be quite undemanding fruit trees. In addition to carefully choosing the location conditions, you don't have to do much to enjoy the wonderful blooming of the mirabelle plum every year. The Nancy variety is characterized by its opulence: In addition to a very opulent harvest of outstandingly aromatic fruits under ideal conditions, its characteristics also include intensive and rapid growth. The cut is therefore of particular importance with the Mirabelle from Nancy. While for young trees up to two years old the main focus is on adequate watering and enough sun, after the first youth you should make sure to thin out the crown regularly. In this way you free the tree from unnecessary burdens and can enjoy the harvest of many ripe mirabelle plums.
The best period for the cut
The period before flowering, which takes place from April to May, is considered the ideal phase for tree pruning. In the case of the heavily fruiting Nancy Mirabelle, the weeks after the harvest season in August and September are also ideal. The most common type of cut is the so-called maintenance cut. The focus here is on clearing out the crown. In addition to this care once or twice a year, you can also remove water shoots more frequently. You can recognize these shoots, which are unnecessarily strenuous for the tree, by the fact that they grow steeply upwards. Old trees can also be brought back to life and budding with intensive rejuvenation pruning. In general, the stronger the tree, the more moderate the cut should be. Weak mirabelle plums, on the other hand, benefit if you cut them more.
How to cut the Nancy Mirabelle
Find all the dead shoots of your mirabelle plum tree and carefully cut them out. You should also remove inwardly growing shoots, water shoots and all crossing branches. The shoots growing from the roots also compete with fruiting. That's why you can remove them right up to the trunk without any concerns.
