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How to Cut Back Aucuba. 1. Disinfect the pruning shears or other cutting toll between uses with rubbing alcohol or a bleach solution to prevent the spread of disease between 2. Cut branches on the aucuba back selectively in late winter or early spring, if desired. Use sharp, clean pruning shears. Where do you cut when pruning? For heading cuts, prune 1/4 inch above the bud, sloping down and away from it.

Avoid cutting too close, or steep, or the bud may die. When pruning above a node with two or more buds, remove the inward-facing ones. Make thinning cuts just above parent or side branches and roughly parallel to them.

How tall does aucuba grow? If restoring a mature plant’s shape, prune half of the main stems down to cm (8 – 10 inches) from the soil level. Then in the second year, do the remaining main stems. Alternatively, aucuba shrubs can handle a hard prune removing all the stems at the same time. If this is done, ensure you feed with a slow-release nitrogen-rich fertilizer and water shrubmulching.barted Reading Time: 4 mins.

Aug 14, Aucuba pruning on young plants may only require a thumb and forefinger. Pinching off tip growth will help promote bushiness. For general shaping and to keep your Aucuba plant tidy, you can use a sharp pair of bypass hand pruners to prune branches that have outgrown the rest of the shrub and are spoiling the shape of the plant.

Nov 22, Water the shrub well before transplanting. Prune the shrub by about one half. Dig as large a root ball as possible and move to the new location. Keep the new shrub well watered up until the ground freezes and throughout the next season during dry periods. Dec 20, Ideally, prune just above outward-facing buds and branches so the plant grows into a vase form.

This kind of pruning gives the plant a better, Estimated Reading Time: 2 mins.