Hello, It's my first time posting here and I wanted to say hello! I have a concern in my garden this year. My russet apple tree has not set flowers this year. We have also not seen flowers on the plumb or pear tree either. The only difference this year besides not getting any summer weather so far, is we took down a very old sick apple tree that was also in the yard. I know there is talk about needing two trees to set fruit but we didn't even get flowers this year. The cherry trees are starting to get fruit but there is not much there this year. I share a lot of fruit from this tree and am very worried that I won't have the chance to do that this year. Any help would be appreciated.
I am new at this to live southern ont my cheery tree and pear tree are the same way but my little apple tree was loaded just pick 40 off it left 40 to grow bigger most i ve every got was 3 let me know if find out
August95, I'm in Burnaby and grow just about every common kind of temperate fruit tree. All of my trees had large numbers of blossoms this year, but the fruit set has been bad for everything except apples. My pear tree set no fruit at all, but both apple trees had to have the fruit thinned. Sweet and sour cherries, plums, and peach trees have negligible to less than normal fruit set due to the poor spring weather. I'm not sure why your trees didn't flower, but one possibility is that they matured too large a crop last year. I've had years when the Italian prune plum pruduced no flowers the year after a very heavy crop, and I've read about alternate bearing in apple trees. That's why I thinned the apple crop; it also allows the apples to grow larger. The Web has plenty of information on alternate bearing of fruit trees.
Thank you for the reply and the information. We usually get a huge harvest off this tree. It's rather heart breaking to see it bare like this. Hope that a little extra tlc will help for next season
Actually it is not so much tlc, is more the weather, pretty much out of our control. But don't worry, it will be different next year, may be lots of fruits again.
