thinned 17 more pears off the parker pear tree. leaving 44 pears still on that tree. (second thinning)
last year there were 20-30 pears on the luscious tree and they ALL stayed baby pears. so i think i need to cut those numbers by half. hell, the other two pear trees have only 6 and 8 pears each.
but thinning off pears is hard! what to leave, what to take. i've already thinned each bunch down to one single pear. and pulled off all the ones that had anything wrong looking with them at all. and on the parker tree, i pulled off more pears so that the biggest branches (oldest/most upright/center) had no more than 3 pears, the medium size branches had 2, and the skinny littlest branches only had one.
i think its better if i thin a little at a time. walk away. thin a little more. i never thought it would be THIS hard for me to thin out the baby pears. plus this is new to me. i'm not entirely certain i'm doing it right. i'm worried i'll screw up my trees somehow.
but mostly its a war in my head that says NOOOOOOO! DONT DO IT!!!! even though i know its the right thing to do.
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