Fruit tree holding on by a thread, client wants to get another year out of it. Thoughts?

[ATH]

What is there to gain from thinning?
Keep all the fruit buds and prune to produce more.

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When I said “thin” I meant pruning to support fruit production, not just haphazardly cutting random branches. Wrong word maybe

...Matias, are you referring to thinning to favor the "king" or terminal fruiting bud? ... ...

I am not talking about cutting stems at all, but rather waiting for the fruit to start swelling a bit after fruit set, and then removing the smaller fruit as well as any bug damaged fruit; literally thinning the fruit. ....

And this is why the term "thinning" was removed from the A300 pruning standard...

 

[Matias]

And this is why the term "thinning" was removed from the A300 pruning standard...

Fruit thinning is the actual and appropriate term for that particular process, and it has a fairly standardized and methodical approach, vs what used to be called thinning in general tree work.