I have just bought 3 dwarf fruit trees that only grow to 1 to 1.5 metres high that are about 800mm tall already. They are dormant at the moment as we are in mid winter but i read that its best to wait 3 or so years before letting fruit trees set fruit to avoid them fruiting one year then not the next when they are mature. Will i have to do this with these wee fruit trees or will it be ok to let them fruit?

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My Honeygold is maybe 5 feet tall, and looks like it has about a dozen fertilized blooms. Im going to take them all out, except one or 2, just because Im curious as to how they taste.

Im pretty sure that most fruit trees are biennial bearers anyways, and dont need a hand in achieving that.

Actually it's mostly pome fruits you have to worry about, and of those, apples seem to be the most problematic.

I suppose it's possible to induce alternate bearing in some stone fruits (although I've never witnessed it).

Alternate bearing is a bigger issue in colder climates where the growing season is shorter.

In longer growing seasons, trees have longer to recover and build energy stores, so alternate bearing isn't as common (except with some unmanaged apple trees and nuts).