People often wonder why their fruit tree has dropped or shed fruit before they get a chance to ripen! In this video, I explain 4 reasons why fruit trees drop fruit and how we can prevent it from happening. Enjoy!
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G'day, I'm Mark from Self Sufficient Me and welcome back to another how to basic fruit
and veg growing tips in just two minutes video. Today, I'm going to answer the question,
why do fruit trees drop their fruit and what can we do about it? Let's get into it.
There can be many different reasons why this happens, but in my opinion,
the four main reasons why a fruit tree sheds its fruit are number one, lack of water is
probably the main reason why a fruit tree will start dropping its fruit. You can imagine that
say a citrus behind me, an imperial mandarin, if it's growing well and it's wanting to produce a
lot of fruit and then it suddenly feels that it's not getting enough water, it's going to drop those
fruit or as many as it thinks it should so that a, the tree can survive and b, the remaining fruit
have a chance to develop properly. So what you can do is you can give the tree extra water,
especially if it's really dry because dry weather obviously can stress trees out and if they feel
stressed, they may drop the fruit. Number two, not enough nutrients. If a fruit tree hasn't got
enough food for itself, it's not going to be able to produce much food. So make sure that your fruit
tree is getting appropriate nutrients as in fertilizer and also trace elements. Number three,
pest and disease. If a bug or disease gets hold of the fruit, the fruit tree is going to discard it.
If the fruit starts to rot because it's being stung by a bug, well then the tree is going to
drop it because it's not going to try to develop something that's not going to grow to full size
anyway and be able to reproduce. So what you need to do is rid the tree of those pests and I like
doing it the organic way. Just go over the tree and wherever you find them, knock them off, stamp on
them, put them in soapy water or drown them or whatever you want to do. And the last point, number
four, is totally natural. You can see that this tree is absolutely chock-a-block with fruit. It
knows it's got too much and I don't mind that at all. I know we're still going to get plenty
and a bountiful harvest anyway. So don't be too deterred if a tree has dropped some of its fruit,
particularly if it has a lot of fruit still left on the tree. It's probably totally a natural thing
to do. Well I hope this helps. Let me know down in the comments section if it does or if you've
got any tips or other comments you'd like to make about why fruit trees drop fruit, whack them down
there too. Don't forget to subscribe, share the video around and give it a big thumbs up. Thanks
for watching. Bye for now.
