Weekly topic challenge: pruning [completed]

Question

I made a post asking for topic ideas for the challenge, and the next open suggestion is for pruning.

Please use the tag pruning when posting questions for this challenge, and remember to keep the site quality at a good level.

Next week, on December 22, I will tally up the results to see how we did, in an answer below this post. Feedback? Comment below this post or find me in our chat room. Have fun!

Answer 1

During the week(s) that the challenge ran, we received 8 questions tagged pruning:

• Should I try to treat a Majesty palm tree with brown holes in the leaves?
• How should I prune a cleistocactus that got too tall?
• What is a sucker and how does it differ from a water sprout or branch?
• How should I prune a common fig for best productivity?
• Why the leaves of my guava getting dry and dropping?
• Am I pruning my pepper plants optimally?
• How should I prune a top heavy Jade plant?
• Is it really that important to prune deadwood from trees? If so, why?

These questions have attracted 7 answers. Here are the participants:

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