Removal of surplus of fruits on apple-trees and pears allows to receive better harvest. As a result you will pick larger and sweet fruit. Facilitating branches, you keep them for future gain and protect from breakage. Also you reduce risk of diseases of fruit trees.
It is required to you
- sharp scissors
- stairs
Instruction
1. Some trees begin to dump ovaries at the end of June. Begin thinning during this period. When fruits have the size of 2 cm diameter and their quantity in the socket more than two, it is necessary to thin out them.
2. Easily shake tree that weak, sick apples and pears have fallen down. Bring together them and destroy.
3. Examine tree. On branches keep 8 fruit for young tree and 15-for old. Cut off fruits, using sharp scissors or pinching off ovaries big and indicative fingers, leaving fruit stem.
4. In sockets at apple-tree leave 1-2 best fruits, without symptoms of disease, the largest. In apple-tree sockets sometimes it is possible to see "tsar" - fruit without fruit stem. It needs to be removed if form at it wrong. But if "tsar" of equal round shape, then he can be the best fruit of the socket.
5. Begin to thin out pears when ovaries fall down. Delete pears in the center of the socket. The largest and best pears are sideways sockets. Leave 1 or 2 fruits.
6. Make sure that each fruit is surrounded large number of healthy leaves. Them has to be not less than 30-40 on each fruit. If leaves are not enough, then there is receiving probability fruit of solar burns. The distance between fruits has to be about 15 cm.