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Sat, Jul 20, 13 at 21:40
| Do dwarf trees have smaller size fruit? I have dwarf plum trees. The fruit is sweet and tasty but small. |
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| Did you thin the fruit? Dwarf fruit trees refer to the size of the tree not the size of the fruit. |
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| Do thin to 6 inches. Doesn't seem to matter as fruits 6 inches apart no bigger than those that I didn't get to thin, which are in a cluster of 3 or 4. |
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- Posted by scottfsmith 6B-7A-MD (My Page) on Sun, Jul 21, 13 at 17:19
| Generally the rootstock does not greatly affect the fruit size. It can make a small difference. Some growers don't like using OhxF333 pear rootstock for some pear varieties due to smaller fruit. It was never a big enough difference for me to notice. Most commercial apple orchards planted today are on dwarf stock; given the importance of large fruit in the market I'm sure those stocks don't make the fruit any smaller, otherwise they would not be used. Scott |
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- Posted by canadianplant (My Page) on Mon, Jul 22, 13 at 8:11
| Small fruit can be due to many reasons. Lack of water in spring, or the season before, too much water in the spring, incomplete pollination (iir this i the most common) due to lack of good pollinators....... Do you know what kind of plum they are? It could just be as simple as needing a pollinator and some light thinning of the fruits |
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| The variety could be the key. Some are smaller than others. |
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