Thinning Fruits

Forum Archives

 

---

 

 

gary

Posted: May-19-2005 at 6:11pm

Remember Deb’s peach tree last year? If not, maybe she'll post the pictures again to encourage you to follow GOOD advice. Ciscoe Morris had a short piece on prunning the fruits in today's Sea PI. He goes thru all of them and would have saved Deb those branches last year had she remembered (known) his advice.

You can see the article at:

"Tough Love for Fruit Pays Off"

Gary

 

---

 

DebbieTT

Location: Washington, Kitsap Peninsula

Posted: May-19-2005 at 9:50pm

Oh do I remember that fateful day a major branch broke off. Let me see if I can find that pic again, oh I bet that thread is in the archives.

 

---

 

DebbieTT

Location: Washington, Kitsap Peninsula

Posted: May-19-2005 at 10:16pm

I couldn't find it, I think it may have been in the photo gallery and that isn't archived. Here are the images again:

Broken and in shock! I am sure the tree was too!

Emergency pruning. Need to go back and revisit that prune job. The tree is loaded again with fruit, the damage didn't seem to slow it down one bit. It just looks lopsided now.

 

---

 

bakingbarb

Location: Washington, Western

Posted: May-23-2005 at 4:59pm

Deb, I almost lost some heavily fruiting branches but I put support beams under them! After harvest I pruned it and then the next year I put support beams before they got loaded. Oh to have that problem again LOL

~BakingBarb

 

---

 

cjmiller

Location: Oregon, Willamette Valley

Posted: May-24-2005 at 12:49pm

Several years ago, we had a heck of an early fall silver thaw that broke so many branches that were still heavy with leaves that hadden fallen yet and we looked at natures way of pruning, and it was not a pretty site. Proping helps but pruning is better.

Carol

 

---

 

gary

Joined: Jul-26-2003

Posted: May-24-2005 at 4:46pm

Maybe I wasn't clear above, Ciscoe's article deals with "thining", removing FRUIT and not branches. He gives the spacing for leaving stuff to ripen on each of our fruits.

Debbie's Master Gardener instructor, Chris Smith, gave the same advice in early June last year but Deb was on vacation when that article was in her local paper and she didn't get the thinning done.

Gary

 

---

 

bakingbarb

Location: Washington, Western

Posted: May-26-2005 at 9:56pm

Ohhhhhhhhh! LOL Thinning is so hard to do, removing fruit is like going aganist my grain! But I know it is for the best although my tree split anyways.

~BakingBarb

 

---

 

bakingbarb

Location: Washington, Western

Posted: May-26-2005 at 9:58pm

Come to think of it, our peach tree dropped enough baby fruits on its own that thinning really was not needed. That is sure hard to see the first time, baby fruit all over the ground.

~BakingBarb

 

---

 

gary

Posted: May-27-2005 at 9:38am

Cisco in the link above said,

"Peaches, nectarines and apricots produce individually rather than in clusters. Thin the fruit to 4 to 6 inches apart."

Oversize fruits with last year's sunshine will still need some extra support.

Gary