Fruits with few seeds may, in some seasons, be slightly misshapen or smaller and it is always recommended policy to ensure setting of fruits with many seeds. Ensure that apple fruits are set with adequate seed numbers by:
- The planting of suitable pollinating varieties in adequate numbers within the orchard.
- The introduction of sufficient bee hives, each with ‘strong’ colonies of bees.
- The creation of suitable shelter within the orchard to aid bee activity and pollen germination and growth.
- Ensuring good pollination with the variety Braeburn so as to increase fruit seed numbers and help uptake of calcium into this bitter pit sensitive variety.