I hate throwing away what could potentially be yummy apples. My friends at a SoCal Harvest would be appalled if they saw me last week. I removed a large number of small apples on both my espaliers. 3 weeks to a month after they set fruit, I manually pick off some of the thumb sized apples to increase the size of the remaining apples, increase air flow around the fruit, and mainly reduce the stress on the tree limbs. ... Read More Read More