How can you tell if fruit has reached its optimal ripeness without picking it, touching it or carrying out any test that ...
It's ironic … in order for farmers to know if their fruit is ripe, they regularly have to pick and analyze pieces of that fruit, reducing their yields. Utilizing a new technique, however, they could ...
How can you tell if fruit has reached its optimal ripeness without picking it, touching it or carrying out any test that ...
Q: I have a 9-year old apricot tree that produced a bumper crop of delicious apricots each year. However, this year there is an abundance of fruit set but not many leaves. Unless the number of leaves ...
Fruit trees, whether it's apples, pears, figs, or nectarines, are wonderful to grow for a surplus of your favorite fruit when it's harvest time. Growing fruit trees requires space, time, and proper ...
Apricot trees were sprayed with 2,4,5-trichlorophenoxyacetic acid at concentrations of 50, 100, and 200 ppm on May 22, 1965, when spur leaves were fully expanded. Some effects of 2, 4,5-T were studied ...
Winter fruit tree pruning starts as soon as leaves drop from the trees. It’s easier to see the branching structure of the tree — I call it the tree’s “architecture” — after the leaves are gone. This ...
Garrett Sorber, co-owner of Radical Roots Nursery, a fruit and flower nursery in Maine ...
My crab apples look terrible this year and have lost a lot of their leaves. The remaining leaves have spots on them. What can I do to help my trees? — Tom Halvorson, Barrington Many crab apples in the ...