If too many fruit are removed from the tree, the fruit will grow too large, which increases fruit quality and storage problems. If a crop is not thinned properly, and too many fruit are left on the tree, the fruit will be small due to too much competition, the resources that would go towards next year’s buds being diminished, and producing too few return blooms the following year. Fruit trees start making flower buds for the next season’s crop in the current growing season, therefore the crop load decisions that orchardists make will affect the current year’s production, as well as the next year’s crop. Reducing the crop load by thinning to a certain number of fruit is also important for next year’s crop. Because fruit trees often set more fruit than necessary, to ensure good size and fruit quality, fruit load is commonly reduced by thinning to reduce fruit-to-fruit competition, allow fruit enough room to grow, to expose fruit to adequate sunlight, and for better overall fruit quality.
Crop load management is one of the most important areas of orchard management that growers face each year.
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