Here are two Loring peaches I picked today. Most of the ones which were well spaced, looked like the big one- large and nicely colored. The places where I left 2 close together are mostly like the smaller one.
It looks like I didn’t thin my Asian pears enough. Some of them were even worse, but the animals already ate them all. Though I suppose if they all get eaten by wild-life, it isn’t too important how well I thin them 
My biggest concern is branch breaking. Had that happened to a peach tree two years in a row. Much worse than having small or low quality fruit.
My 2nd concern is biennialing if not thinning enough. Even productive Asian pears can go biennial (20th century) or produce much less fruit after bearing heavily a year or two in a row (Korean Giant). Fruit that have a biennial tendency like Honey Crisp or Gold Rush apples, you get fruit every other year.
I thought I was thinning like crazy on my Liberty Frankentree this year, but I still feel like the tree is carrying too much fruit. We’re at least a week from harvesting our earliest apples (State Fair and Pixie Crunch). I don’t think I’ll lose any branches, but some of them are hanging low!
Size, biennialism, branch breakage, and spraying concerns (fruit that is crowded is harder to spray thoroughly - those are all good reasons to thin. And in my case, to thin more heavily.
Right now I’m feeling pretty good about getting a good harvest. I’d rather not have much rain for the next month, and I sure hope we don’t get a bad hail storm.
Too many apples!
Here’s State Fair under-thinned-
Here’s Calville Blanc under-thinned (nestled in amongst some under-thinned Liberties)-
Here’s some (surprise!) under-thinned Karmjin de Sonnaville and Rubinette-
We also have tons of Libs, a nice branch of Yellow Delicious, some Jonagold, Haralson, Prairie Spy, Cameo, Pixie Crunch, an unknown or two (lost labels) . Almost all under-thinned. So there you have it!
