Fecha de publicación: 08/11/2001 Fuente: WIPO "stone fruits" A composition and method for early bloom thinning of fruit trees and controlling cracking, wherein the composition provides that glyceride type of lipids are effective compounds for bloom thinning of fruit trees and controlling cracking of fruits and the method comprises making an aqueous emulsion with these lipids as active ingredients and spraying the emulsion on fruit trees at appropriate phenophases for blossom thinning or fruit cracking control. The composition further provides that copper compounds act as blossom thinning agents but cause phytotoxicity to trees and a mixture of the said lipid emulsion and copper compounds displays higher thinning effect than each applied alone and does not cause phytotoxicity to trees.