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Using a sharp set of pruning shears or a pruning saw if the limbs are large cut away any dead, damaged or diseases limbs or twigs.

Jun 07, There are different ways to treat different trees. For the makrut lime (Citrus hystrix), which is grown mostly for its leaf, he simply trims it with hedge shears, clipping it all around and taking it back to a simple, neat shape.

He also prunes like this for chinotto and cumquats. However, the West Indian lime is treated shrubgrinding.barg: queensland. Pruning should involve removing unhealthy, unwanted and poorly positioned branches but minimise the loss of healthy foliage. The best time to prune is soon after harvest in winter to early spring before bud break. For late varieties where two crops may hang on the tree at once some of the new crop Missing: queensland. Jun 21, Do you have a mature lemon tree that's really slowing down?

Might be time for a 'skeleton prune' to coax it back to vigour. If an old citrus tree has slowed Missing: queensland.