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[Loriented]

Yeah thinning is a huge thing with fruit trees. A lot of stone fruit will overset if you let it. If this happens it will reduce fruit quality and Brix (sugar) and occasionally ends up making the tree biennial. Like you say the tree can only support so much fruit. But yeah apples, peaches, plums etc will only get their best and biggest fruits if you thin.

Lots of big commercial ops use chemical sprays to kill/thin the fruitlets, usually right after shuck split. Its wild reading and learning about all the chemicals needed and used to grow some fruit commercially.
The tree will naturally abort some and some will fall prematurely but on a mature tree its usually important to thin, especially dwarf/semi-dwarf fruit trees. Heres an example- A green gage plum, this fruit spur was pollinated but 3 plums was too much fruit for this tree to handle from this spot. So it put its energy into one and aborted the other two- you can see the small aborts still attached to the stem but they stopped developing.
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Never heard about thinning for tomatoes, interesting. Only thing I make sure to do is prune the suckers and try to keep a single stem and grow vertically with trellis.


edit: lol just read you wrote cherries and plum tomatoes I read it as just cherries and plums!

cherries and plums!... LOL
We have a Plum tree too. Same story. It has some kind of blight now. But yeah, I learned alot but the main thing is, not everyone agrees (Imagine that) So I an trying all kinds of things I never did, to teach myself. Also, never knew there are Determinate vs Indeterminate Tomatoes. Det* sets fruit all at once, so if you remove any flowers they will be lost. Indet* keeps growing until the frost kills it.
Not sure what is on this Plum tree

 

[Loriented]

Yeah thinning is a huge thing with fruit trees. A lot of stone fruit will overset if you let it. If this happens it will reduce fruit quality and Brix (sugar) and occasionally ends up making the tree biennial. Like you say the tree can only support so much fruit. But yeah apples, peaches, plums etc will only get their best and biggest fruits if you thin.

Lots of big commercial ops use chemical sprays to kill/thin the fruitlets, usually right after shuck split. Its wild reading and learning about all the chemicals needed and used to grow some fruit commercially.
The tree will naturally abort some and some will fall prematurely but on a mature tree its usually important to thin, especially dwarf/semi-dwarf fruit trees. Heres an example- A green gage plum, this fruit spur was pollinated but 3 plums was too much fruit for this tree to handle from this spot. So it put its energy into one and aborted the other two- you can see the small aborts still attached to the stem but they stopped developing.
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Never heard about thinning for tomatoes, interesting. Only thing I make sure to do is prune the suckers and try to keep a single stem and grow vertically with trellis.


edit: lol just read you wrote cherries and plum tomatoes I read it as just cherries and plums!

Tiny pears, due to not pruning/thinning

 

[flower~power]

morning

 

[flower~power]

Yeah, laughing kookaburra, they're cool birds, not timid at all, sometimes you can pat em if you feed em

They're such cool birds. I wake most mornings to their laughter, either them or a pair of grey butcher birds which have a beautiful song.

Check this lyrebird it can imitate a kookaburra, chainsaw, camera shutters, motor drives and other sounds they hear in the forest.

Jump to 1.14 to skip the intro.

Lyrebirds Are remarkable

 

[laszlokovacs]

cherries and plums!... LOL
We have a Plum tree too. Same story. It has some kind of blight now. But yeah, I learned alot but the main thing is, not everyone agrees (Imagine that) So I an trying all kinds of things I never did, to teach myself. Also, never knew there are Determinate vs Indeterminate Tomatoes. Det* sets fruit all at once, so if you remove any flowers they will be lost. Indet* keeps growing until the frost kills it.
Not sure what is on this Plum tree
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That is black knot pretty sure. Not a great thing to see on trees. You can cut it out and burn/cauterize the stubs to get rid of it. But thats a pretty bad infestation and might be a lot to cut out and the tree might already. Plums can be a pain to grow especially here in the northeast where I am, a lot of trees will develop this and decline or die unless they get a good spraying schedule.

 

[flower~power]

They're nice, I get noisy miners, they get a bit much sometimes haha

The noisiest ones for me are the Blue Jays that we get . Shriek and they’re very demanding for peanuts

 

[flower~power]

That is black knot pretty sure. Not a great thing to see on trees. You can cut it out and burn/cauterize the stubs to get rid of it. But thats a pretty bad infestation and might be a lot to cut out and the tree might already. Plums can be a pain to grow especially here in the northeast where I am, a lot of trees will develop this and decline or die unless they get a good spraying schedule.

would love to have my own set a fruit trees it’s always been on my mind I end up being so busy with growing cannabis nothing else gets done horticulturally speaking

 

[flower~power]

You can’t see them but you can hear the racket that the squirrels are barking and hollering at each other

 

[OG_NoMan]

That is black knot pretty sure. Not a great thing to see on trees. You can cut it out and burn/cauterize the stubs to get rid of it. But thats a pretty bad infestation and might be a lot to cut out and the tree might already. Plums can be a pain to grow especially here in the northeast where I am, a lot of trees will develop this and decline or die unless they get a good spraying schedule.

I had a tree that looked like that in my backyard. Now it's cut up and deep in the woods. Couldn't beat whatever it was on the tree and it was just dying slowly so had to get rid of it. Good luck @Loriented

 

[Loriented]

That is black knot pretty sure. Not a great thing to see on trees. You can cut it out and burn/cauterize the stubs to get rid of it. But thats a pretty bad infestation and might be a lot to cut out and the tree might already. Plums can be a pain to grow especially here in the northeast where I am, a lot of trees will develop this and decline or die unless they get a good spraying schedule.

its on the whole tree, everywhere. it looks gross

 

[Loriented]

would love to have my own set a fruit trees it’s always been on my mind I end up being so busy with growing cannabis nothing else gets done horticulturally speaking

you have the land for it

 

[Jcue81]

The noisiest ones for me are the Blue Jays that we get . Shriek and they’re very demanding for peanuts

They’re assholes.

 

[flower~power]

They’re assholes.

Certainly obnoxious at least

 

[flower~power]

a bit worn out went hard yesterday and then took advantage of the early evening light hopped on my tractor did the backyard in the village until 9:20 PM yes indeed think today gonna kick back and take it easy a little bit at the point for
more trellising securing staking, etc.

 

[gmanwho]

C99 x valley girl x bluedigiberry f3
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the bluedigiberry was one to remember, whats the valley girl?

 

[Loriented]

 

[Sub24ox7]

the bluedigiberry was one to remember, whats the valley girl?

OG it’s from archive I think. I got the c99 x valley girl from losttribe. I decided to hit with bluedigiberry. Some plants are very sweet blueberry and some are more OG etc..

 

[laszlokovacs]

its on the whole tree, everywhere. it looks gross

Yeah pull it out/cut it down its not gonna ever get better and can spread to other susceptible trees (mostly prunus). You could also graft a more resistant plum to the stump if you want something new, but either way if it were my tree it'd be gone

 

[flower~power]

Showing off my new machine to the young guy who used to do the backyard for me. He noticed I was missing the cap & washer and the clip that holds left the front tire on for goodness sake. went got the parts(set me back two hours.)

 

[flower~power]

It’s a triple decker