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The safest time to prune pine trees is during the dormant period in late winter to early spring. This allows pine trees to recover from pruning wounds as warm spring weather hits.
Steps. 1  1. Perform major pruning during the dormant season. The ideal time to prune a crabapple tree is late winter or in the cold days of early spring, before leaves appear. 2  2. Remove suckers. Suckers are additional branches that begin growing underground and sprout near the base of the tree. 3  3. Remove water sprouts.