Does your fruit ever look smaller than it should? Does your tree go every other year without much crop load? When your tree does bear fruit do you have problems with limbs breaking? These are all issues that can be avoided in large part through Fruit thinning. Fruit thinning is an essential tool to growing top quality apples, pears, peaches, and plums every year plus helps avoid some of the nasty pitfalls that could happen in a heavy production year. Fruit Thinning is a "grower secret" that is left out of most fruit growing reference material. The best part is that it is real easy. In this video, Felix from Gurney's demonstrates what happens to an apple tree when the fruit is not thinned. Browse all Gardening How-To Videos