How to Prevent Small Fruits:

The one tg t usually shocks new e growers is the fact t the fruits produced by their e are much smaller n the ones they're used to seeing at the grocery store. "What is wrong with my e?!", "My God! What have I done!?" are some cried you may hear from the disgruntled e grower. However, small fruits are a natural occurrence. But while smaller fruits might be what nature originally intended, it is possible to attain larger fruits without any genetic altering or added chemicals. It is only through advanced techniques t the professionals reach such large sizes with their fruits.

Usually in the early stages of a fruit es growing, veterans do sometg called "fruit tning". The theory bed this process is t with less fruits to pay attention to, the e will be able to more efficiently send cells to the leftover fruits. When there are hundreds of little fruits on one e, competing for the available materials necessary for growth, you will most likely just end up with a bunch of stunted fruits. To take care of this problem, simply pluck a third of the fruits exmely early on in the process. You should notice larger fruits t season.

On almost any e, the success of each individual fruit depends on the spacing. Usually there should not be any fruits wit six to eight inches of each other. During the fruit tning process, this is the distance you should generally aim for to optimize the amount of nutrition t each fruit gets. Any closer and you'll find they are crowding each other out. Usually this is the first mistake t a new e grower makes. Having tons of fruit starting to grow is not always a good tg!

Sometimes small fruits are caused by conditions out of the gardener's control. During the process of cell division t all new fruits go through, cool weather can be fatal to the largeness of your fruits. Likewise, if the weather is particularly cloudy very early in the season, then fewer carbohydrates will be available to your plants. Occasionally, if the factors are all against the well being of your fruit e, then the fruits will drop to the ground before they are even ripe. A lack of water or certain nutrients, or excessive pests and diseases can also damage the growth of fruits. If you notice these tgs going on early in the season, you should do more fruit tning n normal. Sometimes as much as three fourths of the fruits should come off, to allow full nutrition to those who remain.

The best way to find out how to gain larger fruit sizes is to experiment. If your e has been around for a while, there is almost notg you can do to it to cause it to die or stop producing fruit. Just test different tning techniques or anytg you can tk of to make the fruits larger. You might even head down to your local nursery and enquire about what they would suggest. They will be able to give you advice based on your region and specific e, which is better n anytg I could tell you. So don't settle with small fruits. Go out there and find out what exactly you need to do to improve the size.