Pruning In Tea

Why do you prune young tea plants? Your goal in pruning tea leaves is to give the plant a low, wide framework of branches that will produce many leaves each year. Pruning is essential to direct the tea plant's energy into leaf production. When you prune, you replace old branches with new, vigorous, leafy branches.

What is the intention of pruning tea bushes?

To maintain a convenient height of the bush to facilitate plucking operation. To check the reproductive growth and maintain the bushes more or less in a vegetative phase. To stimulate the production of new set of vigorously growing, leafy branches replacing the old unproductive branches.

When should tea trees be pruned?

Prune your prickly tea tree regularly during the flowering season from winter into spring, Cut back long flowering stems (1-2 feet), but avoid pruning the entire tree at once. This will allow the plant time to regenerate. Allow at least a quarter-inch of stem beyond stem joints to facilitate new growth.