I wanted to show you the homemade limb spacers my husband made for my fruit trees. I planted some young pear trees this spring. Apples here struggle with late frosts and fire blight BUT pears seem to grow well if you select the right variety. So I purchased 2 young pear trees of varieties that are heirloom and supposedly more fire blight resistant.
Once planted I wanted to shape the soft branches on these pear trees while they are young and open the tree up more so that I won't have to take branches off later. This improves air circulation to reduce disease and helps the limbs not to break later from a load of fruit. Especially pears which want to grow straight up.
They sell limb spacers online but my husband took 9 wire and bent me some by just doing "S" shaped bends on each end. So far it is really working well. I have also seen people doing this by putting light weights on the limbs to pull them down.
Below are some pictures of the limbs with spacers on them.
Thank you for the idea. I bought a house with fruit trees and did some trimming but will have to try this to open the trees more. Something new for me.
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