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Thinning your fruit trees....

People always love seeing their branches filled with fruit, but we have to thin our fruit. There are many reasons to thing but the 2 most important are tree health and fruit size/quality.

Plums are a good example of over-producing trees.Our burbank plum had hundreds of clusters with 8-12 fruits. When we look at the overall health of the tree, I notice twig blight, leaf curl, and an overall pale color to the tree. 

FRUIT TREES WILL PRODUCE THEMSELVES TO DEATH......

Yes, the overproduction of little fruits robs the trees of nutrition. Now, prunus fruits will have a "June Drop" where they drop the overproduction but by now, the tree has wasted its resources.

Heres what we started with ....
and ideally this is closer to what we want

Even then, I could thin these a little more aggressively. This allows the fruit to get large and to develop nice flavor.

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