Looking at the 2018 crop.....predicting 75% of a crop.

It's thinning time now.  The men are out there gently smacking  the big bunches of  green

marble-sized apricots with a bamboo thinning pole

They're knocking part of the crop on the ground.

We don't want a harvest  of peewees. 

 By knocking off part of the clusters, the cots will have room

to grow and plump right up. 

 In June the bigger apricots will actually push the weaker ones

off the branch......and we'll have what we call the June Drop.