re: Stopping squirrels from eating from my fruit trees

You’ve clearly never had a squirrel gumbo.
The answer would be very clear if you had. I have eaten squirrel gumbo and there are no squirrels around my house eating fruit trees

Hang some treble hooks around in the trees, especially high up on the trunk. Keep a radio playing around the trees, and maybe some wind chimes.

Don't know if it works or not, but I've heard their going for water more than the fruit. This is more related to keeping them out of a garden though. Try setting out a shallow pan of water, easy if it works & hopefully keeps you from shooting your neighbor's house with the lower target.

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I've heard their going for water more than the fruit.

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Nope. They're drinking he water to wash down all the fruit/nuts/veggies they ate.

Last year, something ate all of our pears in one night. Weeks later, they came back and ate all of our apples. Carried it all off. Didn’t drop a one. This spring I put metal tubing, like duct pipe, with a diameter of about 8” I guess when fastened together, around the first 5 feet or so of each tree. Slick as glass. Nothing bothered our fruit. Except birds. I think it worked because our trees are far enough away from other trees so animals had to go up the trunks and couldn’t jump from other trees.