The June Drop
Categories:
Fruit Growing
I am sending four peaches which are falling off the trees. Can you tell
me how to prevent falling of the fruit next year and what causes it?
It is impossible to tell from the peaches which you send what caused
their falling. Where fruit passes the pollination stage successfully, as
these fruits have, the dropping is generally attributed to some
conditions affecting the growth of the tree, which never have been fully
determined. It is of such frequent occurrence that it is called the June
drop, and it usually takes place in May in California. As the cause is
not understood no rational preventive has been reached. A general