Professional gardeners and other gardening experts are aware that fruit trees commonly drop premature fruits and it is only a natural process of shedding some heavy fruit load. It is common knowledge that fruit trees bear fruit when they become mature enough to blossom freely. It is also believed that pollination
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Amongst all fruits, apples are known to have several periods when fruit drop occurs. The very first fruit drop can be seen right after the flower petals fall off. The fruits that drop are understandably the ones that did not get pollinated in time or the sperm cells from the pollen failed to reach the ovary.
