I just planted a Stella and a Tartarian sweet cherry trees in my yard. The trees are about 7 feet tall and are supposed to be dwarf or semi dwarf. I bought the trees on sale about $7.00 at a Big Box Store. They do not appear to have been pruned properly, branches are very upright and competing with the leader and the lowest branch is about 4 feet from the soil. According to the pruning book I have these trees should develop scaffold branches about 24 to 30 inches from the soil, is there a way to force these trees to develop lower more horizontal branches and "start over"?
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18 years ago