At our olive pruning workshop, we had the guidance of Sr. Manuel, a retired professional pruner. At first he was a bit hard to follow as he immediately jumped up a tree and started working, but as people gathered around him, and the end result for the first tree started to appear, things got clearer.
The trees we were pruning where trees I had been pruning partially last year and others that had been neglected for over a decade. Last year I had chosen to leave some major secondary branches on all primary branches, to avoid reducing the crown so much, that the roots would suffer.
