Pruning

Mode of Delivery

Face to Face

Prerequisites and Co-Requisites

None

Recommended Optional Programme Components

Not Required

Course Contents

Fruit trees, organs and functions, purpose and importance of tree pruning, tree pruning time and its effects on development, pruning techniques, and the importance of the creation of the physiological balance, fruit shape can be applied according to the types of prunings, yield and rejuvenation pruning prunings, shrubs and pruning trees, pruning and checking bodurluğun bodurluğun mechanism, as a practical realization of pruning. Ornamental trees and shrubs trimmed

Weekly Schedule

1) Organs and functions of fruit trees, fruit branch structures
2) Aims and objectives of pruning
3) Physiological principles of pruning
4) Pruning technique-1
5) Time of pruning
6) Time of planting and pruning of sapling
7) Suitable pruning shapes for Fruit trees, natural and artificial pruning shapes Pruning shapes: Goble and Leader system
8) Midterm examination/Assessment
9) Pruning shapes: Pyramid, palm and cordon pruning
10) Yield and rejuvenation pruning
11) Pruning of dwarf fruit species
12) Outdoor plants pruning (trees)
13) Outdoor plants pruning (shrubs and hedge plants)
14) Pruning techniques in viticulture
15) Practical lesson
16) Final examination

Recommended or Required Reading

Planned Learning Activities and Teaching Methods

1) Lecture
2) Discussion
3) Drill and Practice
4) Modelling
5) Group Study

Assessment Methods and Criteria

Contribution of Semester Studies to Course Grade	70%
Number Percentage Semester Studies Midterm Examination 1 40% Quiz 1 20% Practices 3 40%
Contribution of Final Examination to Course Grade	30%
Total	100%

Language of Instruction

Turkish

Work Placement(s)

Not Required