thinning the baby pear nubs

i thinned the parker tree. all i did was thin each cluster down to only one pear. there were usually 3, but up to 5 pear nubs per cluster.

this is what 236 parker pear buds look like


parker buds


luscious pear buds, i thinned off 70 of them


luscious buds


summercrisp, thinned 70




patten cluster of 5


patten thinned 206




the patten pear nubs were quite scratched/scabbed. it happens when the nubs rub against anything, like other nub stems, leaf stems, branches, anything. and the patten tree is my littlest tree of all the four. it fruited so prolifically everything was crowded and rubbing.


patten


luscious cluster of only 3