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cherryview San Jose, CA Dec 05, 2007

Can a female gingko tree be sprayed so it does not bear fruit? If so, what product should be used and when should it be applied?

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Horseshoe Efland, NC(Zone 7a) Dec 06, 2007

cherryview, Welcome to DG!

That's a good questions about the ginkgo. Your tree must be ancient to be flowering and, most likely, dropping "fruit" all over the place, eh? (Kinda smelly, right?)

I don't know of anything to spray on it but will keep my eyes out and see what I can find.

Again, WELCOME!

Shoe

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ecrane3 Dublin, CA(Zone 9a) Dec 06, 2007

There are sprays that you can buy but I'm not sure if they work on all trees or not. The one I've heard of (sorry, don't know the name or anything) is to prevent sweetgum trees from producing those nasty sweetgum balls. I have no idea if it would work on other trees or not. But at least that might give you a starting point for Googling.

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WeeNel Ayrshire Scotland, United Kingdom Dec 08, 2007

I also dont know of any sprays that would prevent a tree from fruiting, the only way I know is to prevent the flowers from forming and as the Gingko tree has quite insignificant flowers that some people find hard to find, then it would be a hard job to try remove the flowers especially as said before, it must be a really large well matured tree for it to flower and produce fruit, normally, once a tree fruits once, then it will do ever year if the weather/conditions are good and the Gingko need a really hot summer for the fruit to set and mature, wish we could help further, hope someone else knows for sure, I guess the smell is not too bad to some folks though as I know someone who doesn't mind this at all, they just gather up the fallen fruit before it gets to the over ripe stage and then starts to smell if that's any help to you. good luck. WeeNel.

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David_Paul Clinton, CT(Zone 6b) Dec 10, 2007

If you can't stop the tree from fruiting, you might consider selling the seeds. I've seen gingko seeds from $1 each to $25 a pound on the internet (how many that is, I don't know).

Or you can do what I did, give them away on Dave's.

The season is over here but this is what the crop I gleaned from the tree at our Town Hall looked like right before going into USPS second day envelopes:

http://davesgarden.com/community/forums/t/787404/



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