Spring Thinning Apples

In this video we will discuss the benefits of thinning apples in the spring and how to do it.
Thinning apples will prevent pests from harboring between fruit that is touching and allow your trees to put more energy into one apple rather than splitting it between multiple apples. It can be difficult to thin apples because it's too easy to be greedy, but make sure you do it and your will be blessed with larger, healthier fruit and pound for pound you will still have a bountiful harvest.

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  • @ejfoodguy
    @ejfoodguy2 ай бұрын

    Thanks for the excellent demo! Its nice to know the reasoning behind general thinning rules (e.g. one fruit every 6 inches, etc.). A related question: To correct an alternating yearly fruiting pattern, would you just remove all the fruit from say every other spur, instead of leaving the one apple? Then, in theory, next year the empty spur would produce blossoms? Or is it better to remove all apples from one entire branch and thin the next branch like you show in the video, leaving one apple per spur?

  • @fruitpruningchannel

    @fruitpruningchannel

    2 ай бұрын

    Yes, thinning all the fruit from every other spur would help your trees produce every year instead of every other year. I have more thinning videos coming up.