Spring Thinning Apples

[@ejfoodguy]

Thanks for the excellent demo! Its nice to know the reasoning behind general thinning rules (e.g. one fruit every 6 inches, etc.). A related question: To correct an alternating yearly fruiting pattern, would you just remove all the fruit from say every other spur, instead of leaving the one apple? Then, in theory, next year the empty spur would produce blossoms? Or is it better to remove all apples from one entire branch and thin the next branch like you show in the video, leaving one apple per spur?

[@fruitpruningchannel]

Yes, thinning all the fruit from every other spur would help your trees produce every year instead of every other year. I have more thinning videos coming up.