Yeah I've hear about the Tape, Foil strips, netting, etc.
Truth is we haven't harvested any fruit from the backyard in over 30 years when the we had to cut the two plum trees down due to excessive fruit.... One was over by the cherry tree and it had so many plums on it the trunk split and the other one was breking branches( the main ones) at the trunk. One grew back thought I have my seed and suet feeds hanging in it.
We have let the wildlife have at the fruit now days, the deer will start jumping the fence soon to eat the fallen fruit( mostly apples ) in the next couple weeks.
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Haha! Omg! Seriously! Only you would have to chop down an overbearing tree!
We had a couple crabapple trees the deer loved and they shared my peach tree with the sqirrels, but we have lots of fruit and don't mind sharing. They actually dont bother the two pear trees!
Very cool the tree grew back.
I expect you need a few nut trees!
INR, That one plumb had hundreds of pounds of giant plums in it and we had it pruned in a "teacup" style prune and the main trunk split almost right down the middle starting where all the branches tied in....to the ground. Never seen a tree do that before. The other one took storm damage and was weekened, then started breaking main branches from the bumper crop of fruit.
:)