Research matters... Control of flowering in apples

By Dr Ken Cockshull 12 February 2010

Some apple trees produce heavy crops in one year followed by light crops in the next -- a pattern that is highly undesirable in commercial orchards. One way to even out these fluctuations is to spray trees with ethephon in their "on" year because this promotes flowering in the following "off" year.

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