Citrus Tree Care – Fruit Thinning

Lydia — Wed, 01 Sep 2010 01:34:48 +0000

Hand fruit thinning is when you remove fruit from your trees to reduce the crop load and to increase the fruit size before harvest.

Fruit thinning of your citrus trees will also help promote canopy growth in your young trees.

Citrus fruit trees sometimes have a large fruit crop one year, and then a small fruit crop the next. Fruit thinning will help take care of this problem and give you a great fruit crop each year.

The easiest way to remove small citrus fruit, is just to pinch the small stem and twist it off. Be sure NOT to remove more than 15% of the fruit as anything over that amount will greatly affect your tree.

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Citrus Tree Care – Fruit Thinning