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No scientific trials have been conducted to give the pistachio growers guidance on the best way to prune pistachio trees.  So what is a pistachio grower to do? Observation made in some older orchards on the west side of the San Joaquin Valley suggests that this lack of information is translating into a reluctance of some growers to control tree height for fear of losing yield.  Standard industry practice for pruning branches in the upper canopy of pistachio trees is to make the pruning cut at a point on the branch located two or three vegetative buds above the last flower bud.  These vegetative buds will provide locations for new growth the following year. Of course, continuing this practice indefinitely will result in ever larger pistachio trees.  In some orchards, excessive tree height is resulting in excessive shading of the lower tree canopy resulting in loss of fruit wood and leaf area.  Shading results in increased humidity in the tree canopy and...
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