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Tonycm

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This is going to be my first year of trying the pinching method.
I'd like to hear from Vasile and others as to what they do.
The question I have is;
When pinching the branches, does it help the ripening of figs by pinching all the branches whether or not they have figs growing on them or ONLY the branches containing figs?

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Tony,
I will be interested in Herman's reply as well.  I am pinching my trees this year for the first time as well.  My primary goal in pinching is to increase the amount of hardened off growth going into winter to hopefully decrease the amount of die back.  I have been pinching all tips.

My thoughts would be that pinching only affects the shoot directly below where pinching ocurred.  The earlier ripening is ocurring due to the earlier initiation of fruit growth on limbs that are pinched.  As such unpinched limbs would develop fruit later and would not be effected.
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pinching does two things. it forces fig and branching. not too sure about hardening or help to speed ripening of fig. if you pinch around mid/late april, you'll have first fig around july. branching also help with more figs.
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I have yet to do any pinching this year. But in my experience from pinching last year, the tree will keep growing green wood. It will just be in the form of more lateral shoots instead of the ever elongating primary terminal. Plus more figs.
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