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TABLE 13.1
Thinning Recommendations for Pome and Stone Fruits
Excessive pruning, however, delays the onset of fruiting and reduces yields.
Pruning too heavily also stimulates excessive, upright, and unproductive
wood that complicates training procedures, increases pest and disease prob-
lems, and requires more pruning and branch bending to correct. While prun-
