In my case, I have the chance to grow plants directly on the soil in a protected private garden, so I let the plants grow themselves without doing anything in special but just the usual preventive cares and regular irrigation. Ideally, a wild crop would require letting the plants grow freely, but it has been proved that pruning greatly favours growth and, especially, increases production. Next, we detail some of the most common types.
DefoliationThis type of pruning is mainly done during the vegetative stage and, in some cases, when the plant reaches its flowering phase. You need to look for those small stems and shoots forming in the lower parts of the branches that receive very little light. Since they will never get to fully develop and produce buds, you will get rid of them by trimming off up to two stem nodes,...
