Flower and fruit thinning of peach and other Prunus Page 369 Flower and Fruit Thinning of
Peach and Other Prunus Ross E. Byers Department of Horticulture Virginia Polytechnic …

Hand thinning is a necessary but costly management practice in peach (Prunus persica)
production. Organic apple (Malus× domestica) production also may require hand thinning to …

Peach (Prunus persica L. Batsch) thinning is a costly and time-consuming but necessary
practice to produce a crop of marketable size fruit. A number of mechanical devices and …

This paper reviews the different concepts that have been investigated concerning the
mechanization of fruit thinning as well as multiple working principles and solutions that have …

McClure, KA and Cline, JA 2015. Mechanical blossom thinning of apples and influence on
yield, fruit quality and spur leaf area. Can. J. Plant Sci. 95: 887–896. Apple (Malus× …

Peach and apricot trees usually set more fruit than they can adequately support. Crop load
adjustment through fruit thinning is a routine practice adopted by fruit growers to obtain a …

Mechanizing the fruit thinning operation will result in considerable cost savings for growers.
This investigation has been conducted to improve mechanical thinning by exciting individual …

Hand thinning is a necessary and costly management practice in peach (Prunus persica)
production. Stone fruit producers are finding it increasingly difficult to find a workforce to …

Peaches for the canning industry were thinned by hand and with hand-held mechanical
devices (one branch brusher and one pneumatic branch shaker) that were used alone …

The objective of this investigation was to develop and test an automated selective fruit-
thinning system for blossom removal in peach tree orchards. The proposed system needed …