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First off, no one knows different types of pruning for their trees. And that is not your fault, I think there are a lot of assumptions when it comes to trees. They're just living furniture on your lawn right? Well I thought so until I got introduced into this world. 

Structural pruning is taking out problems in your tree before they get big. Pruning trees that are young, structural pruning takes out any codominant stems. A codominant stem is when there are two tops of a tree. These generally fork out into two or even more main trunks that start growing up. It is not very good for the structure of the tree because these become weak points when a tree starts to grow.

I have seen relatively young trees split and once it is a significant split, the tree has to go. The larger the tree the more of a concern it becomes. There are solutions to this like cabling and bracing but that is not apart of this article. If you want to learn more about this, give me a call or maybe I have an article on it now.  

The antidote for twin topped trees is structural pruning when they're young. This ensures that 

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