Have you ever noticed that your backyard apple or pear tree produces a large quantity of fruit one year, but a ...

Tree vigor. This problem will cause trees to expend energy in growing wood versus producing flower buds. Improper tree vigor ...

If an apple tree, for example, is only in its silver tip bud stage (the first one), temperatures down to 15 degrees will result in a 10% fruit loss. Temperatures down to 2 degrees will result in a ...

If you want the tree to grow taller, leave the leaders and cut back lateral branches leaving about six buds. Pruning shaped fruit trees. There are numerous ways trees can be trained, ...

Peter Simonsen says buds on the peach trees at his farm in Naramata, B.C., are already starting to swell early. But that makes him nervous. "They seem healthy and good, but I'm a little worried ...

If an apple tree, for example, is only in its silver tip bud stage (the first one), temperatures down to 15 degrees will result in a 10% fruit loss. Temperatures down to 2 degrees will result in a ...

Apricot trees tend to flower in early spring and need to be protected from late frosts to prevent flower buds falling off.

Training trees can occur during active growth, but more often pruning is carried out in dormancy, just before buds form in late winter or early spring. Unless your tree blooms on old growth, this is ...

This is critical for fruit trees because these flower buds must survive the winter to produce the following year’s crop. In late January 2024, temperatures in the Okanagan dipped to –27°C, ...

A cherry orchard is seen in an aerial view in Kelowna, B.C., on October 5, 2024. This week marks one year since the deep freeze that sent temperatures plummeting to about -30 C in some fruit ...

Peter Simonsen says buds on the peach trees at his farm in Naramata, B.C., are already starting to swell early. But that makes him nervous. “They seem healthy and good, but I’m a little wo ...