Q. Can you help me resolve
a problem that has developed with my two peach trees? They are now giving
reasonably good quantity and good size fruit, but the problem that has
developed is that the fruit drops before it is ripe. Is there anything that can
be done to help the tree hold on to the fruit until maturity?
A. Peach trees regularly
thin themselves out before ripening occurs; if this didn't happen the peach’s
branches would break under the weight of the ripening fruit. In fact, when the peach starts to show signs of fruit dropping (it's starting to self thin) it isn't a
bad idea to water the tree heavily and then, the next day, shake the main trunk
gently but rapidly to thin out the juvenile peaches before they get too big and
pose a risk of collapsing the branches that bear them.
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