by Greg Alder | Jun 30, 2016 | Fruit |
The standard advice from the experts once again doesn’t align with my experience. This time it relates to the idea that thinning fruit will lead to larger fruit. From the horse’s mouth: “Thinning immature fruit at the appropriate time allows each...
by Greg Alder | Apr 12, 2015 | Fruit |
 The bloom on a branch of a Royal Blenheim apricot tree on March 4: And then the fruitlets the flowers have become on April 12: And here is the tree almost exactly six years later: April 13, 2021. Fruitset is weak this year: April 19, 2021. All of my Yard Posts are...
by Greg Alder | Apr 12, 2015 | Fruit |
Between January 29 and February 25, I took scion wood and grafted onto my deciduous fruit trees. I used the whip method for all nine grafts, and seven of the nine are growing today. Over the last year, I’d planted four new deciduous fruit trees, but I...
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