Harvesting apples today and having a lot of trouble breaking off spurs- the wood is brittle and fine, and the stems are very short. So as I was working in the tree I kept snapping off spurs.
There is lots of spurring wood on my Liberty, so it’s not like I can’t afford to lose a few. But it makes me feel clumsy, and it’s messy, and some of the spurs I broke were on really nice, big apples. Does that mean that I have lost big apples next year that I would have gotten next year? I don’t know.
Is there anything I could do to minimize the problem? Please share your experiences and thoughts!