Influence of soil nutrients on fruit flavor?

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Girdling will as stated trigger production or if overdone kill the tree. Stress of many kinds causes heavy blooming and fruit set.

How do you make those stubborn varieties produce fruit?

So how do you make those stubborn varieties produce fruit? Girdle them which I learned well from the cicada and rabbits there are times when it works http://www.ent.uga.edu/peach/peachhbk/cultural/girdling.pdf. The problem is rabbits eat around a tree trunk and girdle it and take off to much. Many on here are content with branch bending and they get very good results. If you have good results no need to go further. I have a few stubborn trees that just don’t like to produce much such as gree…

Want early fruit? Do the girdle

I came across this little article from the Iowa State Horticultural Society for 1880 (i love reading this type of stuff…) Sangamon Co I believe is in Illinois. I have a lot of apple seedlings that may be donors for this treatment… [quote] GIRDLING FOR FRUIT. I have often thought how pleasant it would be to me to visit my old agricultural and horticultural friends in this State, and look over their homes and farms and households, could I spare the time and means. I have recently indulged in …

Other tree training techniques: spreading, bending, notching, girdling, etc

There’s a lot of emphasis placed on making major pruning cuts when the trees are dormant and then very little said about summer pruning, limb bending, notching, etc. It’s hard to find consistent information on some of these techniques so I wanted to put them all down here and maybe get a discussion going on peoples experience with them. I will update this post periodically as I experiment with some of these techniques and observe their results. Summer pruning Used to control the size of a tree…