Here is how to thin the fruits in your orchards properly, and the specific requirements for apples, pears, and various stone fruit trees. Read more: How To Help Your Trees That Aren't Supplying Fruit?

With Spring around the corner, plants, trees and shrubs will soon be bursting into bloom. Now’s the time to get your pruning ...

The first thing to do is thin some of the fruit to lessen the strain on the tree. Take some pruning shears and snip off a few apples, cutting a bit of the branch just above the stem. It's ...

Patricia Oropeza demonstrates her winning innovation to improve Washington’s apple harvest at the Semillero de Ideas awards ...

Placing nets over trees during bloom can successfully set a target crop load in Michigan without the use of chemical thinners ...

As the staple chemical thinner carbaryl comes under increasing scrutiny, alternatives are stepping in for the Northwest tree fruit industry. Carbaryl has been a primary ingredient for fruitlet ...