{"id":2076,"date":"2017-08-03T20:00:53","date_gmt":"2017-08-03T20:00:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gregalder.com\/yardposts\/?p=2076"},"modified":"2018-03-09T14:39:48","modified_gmt":"2018-03-09T14:39:48","slug":"oh-the-mistakes-ive-made-not-thinning-enough-fruit-from-a-plum-tree","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gregalder.com\/yardposts\/oh-the-mistakes-ive-made-not-thinning-enough-fruit-from-a-plum-tree\/","title":{"rendered":"Oh the mistakes I&#8217;ve made: Not thinning enough fruit from a plum tree"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This one is embarrassing. I should know better. In fact, I do know better. It&#8217;s just that from afar this small branch of Burgundy plum didn&#8217;t look like it had an overwhelming amount of fruit on it. Only once I looked closely did I see that the branch had broken:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/gregalder.com\/yardposts\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/IMG_20170702_194121.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-2075\" src=\"https:\/\/gregalder.com\/yardposts\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/IMG_20170702_194121-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"broken plum branch\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/gregalder.com\/yardposts\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/IMG_20170702_194121-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/gregalder.com\/yardposts\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/IMG_20170702_194121-600x450.jpg 600w, https:\/\/gregalder.com\/yardposts\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/IMG_20170702_194121-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/gregalder.com\/yardposts\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/IMG_20170702_194121-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/gregalder.com\/yardposts\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/IMG_20170702_194121-510x382.jpg 510w, https:\/\/gregalder.com\/yardposts\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/IMG_20170702_194121-1080x810.jpg 1080w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>And then I lifted it up only to discover\u00a0that the branch was three times as long as I&#8217;d thought and was carrying five\u00a0times as much fruit as I had seen from afar.\u00a0The branch had been weighed down by all of the fruit that I hadn&#8217;t seen and was hiding it behind and under another branch.\u00a0This is what I saw every time I walked by:<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_2078\" style=\"width: 433px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/gregalder.com\/yardposts\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/IMG_20170702_194200.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2078\" class=\"wp-image-2078 \" src=\"https:\/\/gregalder.com\/yardposts\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/IMG_20170702_194200-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"Burgundy plum grafted branch\" width=\"423\" height=\"317\" srcset=\"https:\/\/gregalder.com\/yardposts\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/IMG_20170702_194200-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/gregalder.com\/yardposts\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/IMG_20170702_194200-600x450.jpg 600w, https:\/\/gregalder.com\/yardposts\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/IMG_20170702_194200-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/gregalder.com\/yardposts\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/IMG_20170702_194200-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/gregalder.com\/yardposts\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/IMG_20170702_194200-510x382.jpg 510w, https:\/\/gregalder.com\/yardposts\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/IMG_20170702_194200-1080x810.jpg 1080w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 423px) 100vw, 423px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-2078\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">&#8220;Oh, that little Burgundy branch has a lot of fruit, but it&#8217;s a short branch so I&#8217;ll leave them.&#8221;<\/p><\/div>\n<p>I immediately stripped all of the fruit off the branch in the hope that it wouldn&#8217;t\u00a0die.\u00a0Turns out that this little branch of a finger nail&#8217;s diameter was carrying these 59 plums:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/gregalder.com\/yardposts\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/IMG_20170702_195012.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-2079\" src=\"https:\/\/gregalder.com\/yardposts\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/IMG_20170702_195012-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"Burgundy plum is prolific\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/gregalder.com\/yardposts\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/IMG_20170702_195012-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/gregalder.com\/yardposts\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/IMG_20170702_195012-600x800.jpg 600w, https:\/\/gregalder.com\/yardposts\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/IMG_20170702_195012-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/gregalder.com\/yardposts\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/IMG_20170702_195012-1080x1440.jpg 1080w, https:\/\/gregalder.com\/yardposts\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/IMG_20170702_195012-scaled.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s a wonder the branch hadn&#8217;t snapped off entirely.<\/p>\n<p>This is a special, singular branch. The tree from a few steps back actually looks like this:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/gregalder.com\/yardposts\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/IMG_20170703_071104-e1499121838404.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-2092\" src=\"https:\/\/gregalder.com\/yardposts\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/IMG_20170703_071104-e1499121838404-300x262.jpg\" alt=\"Dapple Dandy pluot tree\" width=\"402\" height=\"351\" srcset=\"https:\/\/gregalder.com\/yardposts\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/IMG_20170703_071104-e1499121838404-300x262.jpg 300w, https:\/\/gregalder.com\/yardposts\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/IMG_20170703_071104-e1499121838404-600x525.jpg 600w, https:\/\/gregalder.com\/yardposts\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/IMG_20170703_071104-e1499121838404-768x672.jpg 768w, https:\/\/gregalder.com\/yardposts\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/IMG_20170703_071104-e1499121838404-1024x896.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/gregalder.com\/yardposts\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/IMG_20170703_071104-e1499121838404-1080x945.jpg 1080w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 402px) 100vw, 402px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.davewilson.com\/product-information-commercial\/product\/dapple-dandy-pluot-interspecific-plum\">Dapple Dandy pluot<\/a> tree that I&#8217;d grafted that one little\u00a0branch from\u00a0my mom&#8217;s Burgundy plum onto. It&#8217;s the only branch of Burgundy plum I have, and Burgundy plums are not only wonderful tasting fruit, but the Burgundy&#8217;s blossoms are needed to pollenize the Dapple Dandy.\u00a0Maybe the branch\u00a0will survive and bloom next year to do its pollenization work, and this winter I&#8217;ll try to graft a new Burgundy branch onto the tree elsewhere.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>The lesson<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The lesson in this for me is not that I should\u00a0thin my fruit &#8212; I already knew that. And I had already done a round of thinning fruit on this tree. The lesson is\u00a0to get into trees and lift branches and make sure you really know what each branch is carrying so you can thin the fruit properly.<\/p>\n<p>Stage two: Well, I better get in there and lift branches on the rest of the Dapple Dandy pluot tree. Maybe some of those are hiding fruit I haven&#8217;t noticed.<\/p>\n<p>My goodness, were they ever! Here&#8217;s how many I removed from the Dapple Dandy branches:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/gregalder.com\/yardposts\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/IMG_20170703_071032.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-2091\" src=\"https:\/\/gregalder.com\/yardposts\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/IMG_20170703_071032-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"thinned Dapple Dandy pluot fruit\" width=\"404\" height=\"303\" srcset=\"https:\/\/gregalder.com\/yardposts\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/IMG_20170703_071032-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/gregalder.com\/yardposts\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/IMG_20170703_071032-600x450.jpg 600w, https:\/\/gregalder.com\/yardposts\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/IMG_20170703_071032-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/gregalder.com\/yardposts\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/IMG_20170703_071032-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/gregalder.com\/yardposts\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/IMG_20170703_071032-510x382.jpg 510w, https:\/\/gregalder.com\/yardposts\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/IMG_20170703_071032-1080x810.jpg 1080w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 404px) 100vw, 404px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Better late than never? No pluot branches had broken. That&#8217;s the good news today.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Thinning fruit generally<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>How much fruit should you thin? It depends on the type of tree and your preference for fruit size. For large fruits that often grow on thin branches, like peaches, it&#8217;s good to thin more. For small fruits that often grow on thick branches, like apricots, it&#8217;s not as necessary to thin as much. My guiding principles is: Remove enough fruit such that a branch will not break or bend down from the weight of the fruit so much that the fruit or branch\u00a0will get sunburned. I personally don&#8217;t thin fruit aiming to get the fruit on the tree to grow as large as possible &#8212; a goal for some people. For one, <a href=\"https:\/\/gregalder.com\/yardposts\/dont-thin-apricot-fruit-in-order-to-increase-fruit-size\/\">I&#8217;ve never noticed that such a practice actually works<\/a>. But also, I don&#8217;t like giant peaches or apples or any other kind of fruit. I prefer small fruit, because\u00a0if I want more I&#8217;ll pick another one.<\/p>\n<p>Here is a good and short <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=Q88qU22qvgs\">video from Tom Spellman at Dave Wilson Nursery showing him thinning a Burgundy plum<\/a> and talking about a few thinning principles. Skip to about 2:45 into the video to see the Burgundy plum.<\/p>\n<p>And when you do your thinning, make sure to stick your head inside the tree and lift branches and find out for sure how much each branch is carrying, Greg!<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>You might also like to read:<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<h1><a href=\"https:\/\/gregalder.com\/yardposts\/dont-cut-off-the-fruiting-wood-pruning-lesson-number-one\/\">Don&#8217;t cut off the fruiting wood: Pruning lesson number one<\/a><\/h1>\n<h1><a href=\"https:\/\/gregalder.com\/yardposts\/my-best-advice-on-pruning-deciduous-fruit-trees-keep-them-small\/\">My best advice on pruning deciduous fruit trees: Keep them small<\/a><\/h1>\n<h1><a href=\"https:\/\/gregalder.com\/yardposts\/when-and-how-to-prune-citrus-trees\/\">When and how to prune citrus trees<\/a><\/h1>\n<h1><a href=\"https:\/\/gregalder.com\/yardposts\/pruning-avocado-trees\/\">Pruning avocado trees<\/a><\/h1>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This one is embarrassing. I should know better. In fact, I do know better. It&#8217;s just that from afar this small branch of Burgundy plum didn&#8217;t look like it had an overwhelming amount of fruit on it. 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