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Re: [GWL]: Pear trees

Ellen,

   Removing every other flower or small fruit on a pear tree will often
result in larger fruit. On many fruit trees, apples, apricots, peaches and
nectarines in particular, hard thinning of the small fruit will usually
result in fruit that is not only much larger and more attractive, but in
sweeter fruit as well. Apple flower clusters usually have five flowers and
some growers call the central flower the "King bud," and often they remove
all the others in the cluster except that one.--
    With certain fruits, plums, figsm cherries, olives, avocados, guavas,
pomegranites, and most citrus, fruit thinning is often not done at all. With
pears, often a perfectly good crop of large fruit can be had without any
fruit thinning. The same can rarely be said of apples.

Tom Ogren
author Allergy-Free Gardening

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From: <ez@acmeplant.com>
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Sent: Wednesday, October 03, 2001 7:48 PM
Subject: Re: [GWL]: Pear trees


> I've had a client inquire if removing every other flower/young fruit
> from a pear tree will result in the mature fruit growing larger.  I know
> nothing about fruit trees but hoped that someone out there might.  Is
> this just an old wives' tale?  Is it like pinching the suckers of
> tomatoes (in other words people feel strongly both ways)?  Any ideas?
>
> Ellen Zachos
>
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