Wednesday, June 25, 2014

pear tree thinning

the bucket full of 118 baby pears i thinned off the parker pear tree
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thinned down from approximately 179 baby pears on the tree to approximately 61. i thinned them from 3-4 at each spur down to one.
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baby pears with funky spots where they rubbed another stem. i pulled off any funky looking pears.
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even with all that thinning, theres still 3 pears on this one branch
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and still 5 pears on different spurs on this branch
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its hard to count pears on the tree.

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