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["David Doud" <doudone@netusa1.net>]

heat and drought will cause apples to drop - I'm sure you've had plenty of heat - insect and disease damage will also cause fruit to fall - do the apples have good seeds? - low seed count from the freeze will cause small apples that don't mature - how's the foliage condition? green and healthy or disease/insect/mite damaged and shedding leaves?

 

Harralson is a northern apple that ripens in a short, cool season - not well suited to southern IN - its degree day requirements have been met, and here it is 100*F - lots of things working against you this season -  -

D

 

 

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From: Jerrydana5@aol.com

To: nafex@lists.ibiblio.org

Sent: Thursday, August 16, 2007 10:17 PM

Subject: [NAFEX] apple dropping

I had only one tree not get frozen out this spring and now it is dropping apples prematurely.  It is a Harralson.  I have had good crops from it before, and some years it has dropped most of its apples early.  Does anybody have any hints as to what I am doing wrong?  Jerry in southern Indiana

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