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  • From: dwoodard@becon.org
  • To: nafex@egroups.com
  • Subject: [nafex] Biennial bearing of apples
  • Date: Sun, 17 Dec 2000 07:40:41 -0000

I read in a British book years ago that people growing for home use
faced with one tree of a cultivar the biennial bearing of which could
not be controlled were able by thinning some scaffold limbs and not
others, to induce some scaffold limbs to assume a different cycle of
off and on years from others. Then they would have fruit from one
tree every year, if perhaps not in the largest quantities. Apparently
scaffold limbs are largely fed by their own roots on their own side
of the tree, and apple trees function to a considerable degree in
independent sectors.

I seem to recall that taking the petals off with a broom has also
been used to prevent fruiting in a given year, or at least to make
thinning or fruit removal less tedious; apparently petal-less flowers
are not very attractive to bees and the loss of petals is thought by
some to affect to some degree the ability of the flower to become
fertilized.

Douglas Woodard


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