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How/When/Whether to lighten the fruit load

johnorange
9 years ago

After some reading recently and over the years of enjoying this forum, there have been several threads with guidance on whether to thin fruit or artificially support limbs weighted with fruit. Now I'm not sure which circumstance fits my Satsuma Orange tree. It's a 10-year old tree so I want fruit more than growth now but I don't want to loose limbs to breakage. I THINK I understand that bent limbs actually encourage more branching in the opended up canaopy the following season. With that introduction, here is my tree. It's difficult to see the fruit in the foliage but they are barely half their ripe size now and I have a bumper crop. Should I add supports, thin the fruit, or leave the tree totally alone?

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