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Early summer offers a tempting taste of what’s to come in the fruit garden. But to get the most from your fruit trees you’ll need to thin them out by removing many of the developing fruits.
It sounds counterintuitive, but by thinning fruits you’ll enjoy a better harvest of bigger fruits.
In this short video we show you exactly how, when and why to thin apples and other fruits to get the most from your trees.
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When is the best time to prune blackberry bushes? Spring or fall?
Thanks for good info, though my trees overproduce prety often and i usually dont thin.. it does decrease frut yield somewhat but gives higher quality fruit, since my plums are for processing i dont thin them.. though i have to collect them from my lawn. And speaking of apple trees, you just inspired me to go ahead and thin them because they tend to be pretty small and dense and i use them for eating raw
How often do we need to thin our fruits on the fruit trees
I wonder why a tree produces so many fruits in the 1st place? Surely the idea is that the tree produces succulent fruit so that animals eat them and spread the seeds but what animal would eat small, green, unripe fruit? Somethings gone genetically wrong if humans have to prune them
I had no idea. 😮
Any advice for thinning for juice and wine production rather than eating or cooking?
What about cherry trees? Do I need to thin them out as well?
That explains why my parents' peach tree produced so heavily last year, and there aren't nearly as many fruits rippening on it this year! I will let them know to thin for more consistent harvests! Thank you, this was very helpful! Question: how long does an apple tree produce for? Of course, they never thin fruit on it either, and by the time it was about 12 years old it would explode with fruit, and now that it's about 17 years old it doesn't produce nearly as much. Is there such thing that it's simply getting old?
I believe the same principal applies to tomato plants.
Have you every tried to bag your apples on the tree. I am trying for the first time this year. My young small multi variety apple tree didn't produce much of anything last year this year there is 4 times the amount I have thinned a bit considering the beetles got to them.
Hi i have 10 different types fruit trees they about 3/4 year old but no fruit this year last year only one of my apple trees had lots of apples. Should I prune my trees in autumn or before could you please let me know thanks.
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What about mulberry trees?
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Nice video 🙂 What do you do with all these half grown unripened fruits that are cut off during thinning?