Thinning Fruit Trees in 6a

[mroot]

With 60 trees I think you are getting to the point where chemical thinning would be worth trying especially if the trees are tall and wide. You could use what the organic orchards use to chemically thin which is a mixture of lime sulfur and fish oil. You could start small next year and do a few trees to get a feel for how it works.

A thread talking about thinning.

Fruit too high in tree to thin

I have a peach (and maybe apple) that have fruit that is too high to reach with my 8ft step ladder. So much fruit that it may break branches from the tree. About my only options right now are to leave them as is or lop those branches from the tree. I understand that I should have kept the tree at a height that I could manage but I did not. I have kept the apples just short enough that I could thin them this year. Next year I will work the apples more and shorten this Peach, but what would y…