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Jun 19, Pests on both the apples and leaves of your apple tree can cause the apple to fall off the tree pre-maturely. A high number of leaf eating insects can affect the photosynthesis of the leaves, which reduces the carbohydrates it can produce, which it needs in order to produce apples.

Apple maggots are one of the most common pests affecting apple trees. The apple maggot fly will lay eggs just under Estimated Reading Time: 8 mins.

If you want to go crazy a cup to a gallon it's already overkill inoculant, the apple poly phenols content in the unripe apples that fall when the tree's self pruning are 10 times higher. That's what we get from vinegar, temperature has more to do with alcohol lockup because it's late in the apple season and the bacteria shut down.

Jun 18, Let’s start with the simplest and most positive reason why apples may drop prematurely. Sometimes, early fruit drop in apple trees is just Mother Nature’s way of reducing a heavy fruit set. This isn’t necessarily bad at all; in fact, it is recommended that you thin apples to one per cluster, six weeks after full bloom so that each apple is inches (10 to 15 cm.) from the next.

Thinning in this manner prevents limb breakage from an overly heavy fruit. Jul 09, Any uses for little hard green apples.

Apple trees can drop fruit from poor pollination, to reduce a heavy fruit set, from lack of nutrients or water, from summer pruning, or from pest damage.

albert_ °N °W ft. July 9, We bought this old house with old apple trees. Hundreds of golf ball sized hard green apples. No idea what the mature ripe apples might look like. Will make mature decisions when the apples mature.

Oct 30, When the buds transform into leaves, the apple tree enters the half-inch green and tight cluster stages. The half-inch green stage begins when the leaves start projecting out from the bud.