Just kidding, sort of. My friend Marianne said her in-law told her to beat her sluggish fruit tree with a baseball bat to stimulate it into producing more fruit. A few months later the darned tree started producing fruit. Huh. How about that? Here’s a link that sort of corroborates this method.
“The easiest way to make a fruit tree bear more fruit sounds a little crazy but it works. The tree must feel like it is under attack, and therefore needs to produce some seeds so the species will carry on after it dies. Sounds crazy, I know, but if you have any kind of fruit tree that is not bearing very much year after year, then try this simple solution. Trees are living things and have learned how to survive and carry on through difficult times. They adapt to situations, if they possibly can. All you have to do for an unproductive fruit tree to bear more fruit is to stimulate the reproductive hormones. Do this by whacking the side of its trunk six to eight times with a sturdy baseball bat. This will not hurt the tree.”
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