Get rid of small fruits

This is a fact that mostly the fruits you get from your tree are much smaller than those available at grocery store and this fact shocks so many new tree growers. Some common statements of grief you may hear from such disgruntled new gardeners are “What is wrong with my tree?!”, “My God! What have I done!?” Remember that small fruits are a natural occurrence. You can’t do anything if the nature has decided to give your tree smaller fruits but still it is possible to get larger fruits without adding any chemicals or any genetic altering. There are really some advanced techniques using which professionals get huge size fruits you normally see at grocery stores.

Veterans carry out “fruit thinning” in the early years of fruit trees. In fruit thinning the tree is kept with little amount of fruit so that it becomes able to provide much nutrients and cells to the left over fruits. If there are hundreds of fruits on tree, it will be unable to provide the good quantity of available materials to the fruits and thus they will become stunted. Pluck one third of the fruits extremely early and you will notice that remaining fruits will be great in size.

Spacing is one of the key factors that determine the success of fruits. If the fruits are between six to eight inches of each other, it means you are allowing them to remain undersized. You should try to separate fruits by this much distance in order to allow them getting maximum nutrients from the tree. Usually this is the initial mistake that a new tree grower makes. Having tons of fruit starting to grow is not always a fine thing!

Its not like gardener has full control over the size of fruits. Sometimes there are some natural conditions that inhibit the growth of fruits. Very low temperature during the cell division process of new fruits can cause them to remain too little in size. Similarly if the weather is cloudy during early days of your fruit, they will most probably remain small in size as in cloudy weather there are very little carbohydrates available to your tree.

You can not do any thing in front of nature and if all natural factors go against your tree the fruits will fall down before they are ripe. Some other factors that may inhibit the growth of fruit are lack of water, lack of nutrients or excessive pests. Always carry out fruit thinning at much higher level, if you notice that all the factors are going against you. Readers may not believe it but sometimes you can even pick three fourths of the fruits in order to allow full nutrition to the remaining one part of the fruit.

If you have a full grown tree for many years you can do a lot of experiments with it just in a hope to get full size fruit. If your tree is extremely mature, it would not die or stop producing fruit whatever you may do to it. You can try as many thinning techniques as you can think of. You can take advices and tips on fruit thinning technique from your local gardening shop. Let them know your specific area and tree and I assure you that they will give you best tips. Never ever be too much happy with small fruits. Always try finding out the techniques using which you can increase the size.