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thinning asian pears before putting on maggot socks.....

lovedirtynails

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June 8, 2009 - 7:14 am

I just received my maggot control socks (thanks, HOS) and read somewhere that the reason to thin was to prevent worms from traveling from one fruit to another. Is that true? I can understand thinning out fruit that doesn't look healthy, but on my asian pear, which I just planted last year, I have so few fruit, I hate to thin out anything!

Thanks,
Anne

PlumFun

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June 8, 2009 - 4:48 pm

Those socks will prevent codling moths from dirtying up the inside of your fruits. I don't think it they are meant to stop worms from crawling from fruit to fruit, which I have never heard of either.

If it's only a small tree, don't let too many fruits develop, maybe only one or two this year. Fruits are a huge energy sink. You want your trees to get larger don't you?

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