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12.07.2024 - 17:06 / gardenerspath.com / Kristine Lofgren
When and How to Thin Plum Trees
I remember the first time someone told me I should be thinning my plum trees. I thought they’d gone off their rocker.
You want me to prune off of some of the marvelous fruit that is forming? Why? I spent all this time planting and nurturing the darn thing, and now I’m just going to throw the fruits of my labors away, quite literally?
Turns out there are really good reasons for thinning and now I’m the one convincing new growers to give their orchards the snip.
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While many gardeners are diligent about thinning their apples and peaches, plums, with their more easygoing nature and abundant fruits, tend to be forgotten.
Don’t make this mistake! You need to include thinning in your yearly maintenance chores. We’ll talk about why that is and how you can do it, coming up.
Here’s what we’ll discuss:
Modern cultivated varieties produce a vast amount of fruit, but it can be too much of a good thing.
Japanese types, for example, are known for growing an abundance of fruits, many of them held in clusters. The trees usually drop quite a few in the late spring as a result. European types tend to be less likely to overbear, but that doesn’t mean you can ignore them.
When our trees become out of balance by producing more fruits than the leaves can handle, we need to somewhat restore the balance, and we can do that through thinning.
Why You Should Thin Your PlumsThere are four reasons that we gardeners need to thin our plum trees:
1. First, the remaining fruits will grow larger than they would if you left all the ones that are developing in place.
This isn’t as essential on smaller cultivars
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