on youtube there are videos of experts trimming fruit trees. and more important, how
to thin the fruit. dwarf trees are precocious and will set a huge load of fruit and
basically kill itself trying to feed the fruit. Ingrid

On Tue, 3 Nov 2009 16:15:42 -0800 (PST), julie wrote:
My question is: what is your advice on how to keep the nectarine and
the orange on the small side? We got advice from the nurseries, but
nothing beats hearing from experienced folks. So, please, how about
it? Can it be done?

TIA,
Julie in SFBA
Somewhere between zone 5 and 6 tucked along the shore of Lake Michigan
on the council grounds of the Fox, Mascouten, Potawatomi, and Winnebago