I don't know if this is best practise but I always leave fruit on my tree as
I find the majority drop off in July and I am left with just a few to eat in
September.


"Mark" wrote in message
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My apple trees are 3 yrs old now, so I'm going to let them fruit. However
one of them has hundreds of small apples forming in clusters of 5, is it
best to remove them and have just one apple on each cluster, or will this
occur naturally. I don't think it's strong enough to bear this amount of
fruit.


Thanks

Mark

I would leave them on also. Then if enough haven't fallen naturally, you
can pick them as needed. I believe peaches should be thinned so you can get
4 fingers between them on each branch.
I would imagine it would be the same for apples.

Dwayne



"Stephen Goodall" wrote in message
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I don't know if this is best practise but I always leave fruit on my tree
as
I find the majority drop off in July and I am left with just a few to eat
in
September.


"Mark" wrote in message
...
My apple trees are 3 yrs old now, so I'm going to let them fruit.
However
one of them has hundreds of small apples forming in clusters of 5, is it
best to remove them and have just one apple on each cluster, or will
this
occur naturally. I don't think it's strong enough to bear this amount of
fruit.


Thanks

Mark

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from "Mark" contains these words:

My apple trees are 3 yrs old now, so I'm going to let them fruit. However
one of them has hundreds of small apples forming in clusters of 5, is it
best to remove them and have just one apple on each cluster, or will this
occur naturally. I don't think it's strong enough to bear this amount of
fruit.

Probably, most of them will drop off. If they don't, let them grow a bit
and then thin them, and make apple pie with the thinnings.

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"Anthony E Anson" wrote in message
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The message
from "Mark" contains these words:

My apple trees are 3 yrs old now, so I'm going to let them fruit.
However
one of them has hundreds of small apples forming in clusters of 5, is it
best to remove them and have just one apple on each cluster, or will
this
occur naturally. I don't think it's strong enough to bear this amount of
fruit.

Probably, most of them will drop off. If they don't, let them grow a bit
and then thin them, and make apple pie with the thinnings.



I'll let things occur naturally then thanks.


Mark

"Anthony E Anson" wrote in message
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The message
from "Mark" contains these words:

My apple trees are 3 yrs old now, so I'm going to let them fruit.
However
one of them has hundreds of small apples forming in clusters of 5, is it
best to remove them and have just one apple on each cluster, or will
this
occur naturally. I don't think it's strong enough to bear this amount of
fruit.

Probably, most of them will drop off. If they don't, let them grow a bit
and then thin them, and make apple pie with the thinnings.



I'll let things occur naturally then thanks.


Mark

"Mark" wrote in message
...
My apple trees are 3 yrs old now, so I'm going to let them fruit. However
one of them has hundreds of small apples forming in clusters of 5, is it
best to remove them and have just one apple on each cluster, or will this
occur naturally. I don't think it's strong enough to bear this amount of
fruit.

Wait until after the June drop, then look to thining them, depending on the
variety I would leave either one or two in a cluster.

Alan
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In article , Alan Holmes
wrote:

Wait until after the June drop, then look to thining them, depending on the
variety I would leave either one or two in a cluster.

I live next to a small orchard - around 100000 apple and pear trees
Only last week men were out there cutting off many branches festooned
with blossom. This was being done to increase the size of the apples
so maybe this is better than just thinning out the clusters. However,
I suspect thinning out clusters on thousands of trees might be a bit
too time consuming.

--
Adrian

"Theory and practice are the same in theory, but different in practice"