As discussed in a previous post, its shaping up to be a banner year for my dwarf apple trees Anna and Dorsett Golden. The bottom photo shows a typical bough completely over-laden with fruit. It does not seem reasonable to me that these trees, both barely five feet tall, can possibly support so many apples to ripeness. So, I just thinned the fruit pretty drastically on both trees to a level as seen in the first two photos. The thinning amounted to dozens of discards, but there are dozens that remain. My plan this season is to provide a bit more water than previous years, probably something like an additional single deep watering once a week, to see how large I can get these select fruit to mature.
Your apples look fantastic. Dozens!!
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