On Sun, 15 Aug 2004 19:59:38 +0000 (UTC), vsop wrote:

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My apple trees are carrying a heavy crop of apples - but a crop which
consists of an excessive number of small apples.
The 'June Drop' seems to have not happened this year.
This applies to all of my apple trees irrespective of tree size and
variety.
Has anyone else experienced this effect this year?

We didn't get the usual ''Drop'' about June time this year, but we have had
the thinning process start within the last fortnight. Don't know why its
been delayed but it might have something to do with the wet weather
providing the fruit with plenty of sap.

Even over here in Austria we've missed the June drop. Like vsop, the apples
are beginning to thin out a bit now, but it's not a real "drop". We has a
wet early summer as well, so it might well be that.


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Tim C.