Lydia Noyes is a content writer and hobby farmer in southwest.

Jun 18, Sometimes, early fruit drop in apple trees is just Mother Nature’s way of reducing a heavy fruit set.

To address this problem, consider pruning back or cutting down trees that are blocking your apple tree from getting enough sun.

This isn’t necessarily bad at all; in fact, it is recommended that you thin apples to one per cluster, six weeks after full bloom so that each apple is inches (10 to 15 cm.) from the next. Jun 19, Most of the time, it is natural for apples to fall from the tree, but the time of year and the size of fruit will give us a hint as to what is actually happening behind the scenes.

Apple trees can drop fruit from poor pollination, to reduce a heavy fruit set, from lack of nutrients or water, from summer pruning, or from pest stumpmulching.barted Reading Time: 8 mins. An apple tree will drop its fruit for a few basic reasons: The tree is dropping fruit that was not properly fertilized (petal fall). This is normal, and some petal fall is not a cause for concern. If most or all of the fruit falls off the tree, you may want to address a possible problem with lack of pollination (more on this later).

May 14, In apples and pears, a second drop occurs once the fruits are about the size of marbles, usually in May or June.

The apple skin has brown, pin-sized marks on the skin and throughout the flesh, and it tastes bitter.

This is commonly referred to as “June drop.” Fruit drop at this time of year is thought to occur as a result of competition between fruits for available resources. Jun 29, Based on the photos we think your tree is defoliating each year because of a fungal disease- apple scab (click"Diseases.") This is a polycyclic disease. The first spores to become active in spring infect new leaves. The fungus then reproduces itself. Aug 18, Apples start dropping off the tree before they are ripe or even fully grown.

Often the flesh has softened and is less tasty than normal. There are many factors that can trigger early fruit drop: Estimated Reading Time: 4 mins.