What fruit trees to prune in winter

You may be wondering what fruit trees to prune back in winter. The big one that you don't prune back is apricots. Apricots have a very soft pithy core down through the centre of their stems, so they can get an infection through that soft core of gummosis.

You'll see the wounds leaking a lot of sap and die back in the limb so don't prune an apricot in Winter.

Most other fruit trees for formative and renovation purposes certainly can be, a quince like this one here or an apple or a plum have quite a hard wood core, so less chance of infection.

Most fruit trees for formative and renovation purposes can be pruned back in winter but definitely not your apricots.