Show thin fall and winter apples say specialists by thinning fall and winter apples can improve the size color and grade of their fruit according to specialists in horticulture at the ohio state university who declare that the practice does not reduce total yield and increases the amount of number one ripples apples culls which are removed now are di finitely disposed of while good fruits that will grade out continue to grow because of this they believe that thinning should be looked upon as a harvesting and not a growing cost other advantages of thinning de da dare clare the specialists are that tree breakage Is reduced tree vigor la Is improved better control of the second brood codling moth can be secured all fruit handling costs are lowered and the ripples apples ripen more uniformly and require fewer pickings than do trees it Is best they believe to remove all blemished small and misshapen apples and to leave only the best single ripples apples in the clusters for most varieties an eight inch spacing Is the niest satisfactory |