Topic: bad year for fruit trees

[mutty042130]

Hi my apple and pear trees have not a single fruit on this year after a bumper crop last year Is it just me or weather this year ? anyone else having a bad year fruit wise ?

[chriscross1966]

THe cold snap in April after the warm March probably put paid to most of that sort of fruit...

[Squashman]

It was the cold snap, I lost all but 8 pears from my 4 trees, no greengage but plenty of plums, cherries and apples.

[RenishawPhil]

It has been a very good year so far for gooseberrys and red/black currents.

Fruit trees are okish to

[small]

There is barely a fruit on my Bramleys. I normally pick in the hundreds of pounds from them....it's going to be a quiet Autumn. :'(  Worst crop in the 28 years we've been here.

[Borlotti]

Last year I was giving my apples away, froze alot for apple sauce, pies, wish I had frozen more, as this year don't think I will get any, but maybe the tree is having a year off, and next year will be better.

[Robert_Brenchley]

I've got so many apples on mine I'm going to have to thin them. The plums are no good though.

[RenishawPhil]

Last year I was giving my apples away, froze alot for apple sauce, pies, wish I had frozen more, as this year don't think I will get any, but maybe the tree is having a year off, and next year will be better.

Indeed doesn't do any harm. When I lived at home we had an old apple tree that produced great big cookers, but would only give a heavy crop every other year. In betweeb you would get about 10 apples!!

[Robert_Brenchley]

Bramley's are known for biennial bearing. They produce so much one year the tree exhausts itself, so it's too weak to bear the following year.

[Martin T]

Looks like being a very good year for apples.

Damsons were great last year very poor this year same with my pears.

Martin.

[RenishawPhil]

Bramley's are known for biennial bearing. They produce so much one year the tree exhausts itself, so it's too weak to bear the following year.

We never found out what apple it was but definately wasn't a bramley

[small]

I have one biennial bearer, the fruit is not like a bramley though, that's having it's year off - the ones I think of as bramleys (because they are like shop ones) have never had a break before. I'm truly gutted about it. There are a few fruit on the russet tree, and on an un-named tree which has a sort of Delicious fruit which doesn't ripen till November, but cookers, zilch. I shall miss the flocks of redwing and fieldfare which descend every year and feast on the fallers, too.

[artichoke]

Not one plum on a plum tree that was good last year. Not so many apples on my old Charles Ross as usual. Some gooseberry bushes are heavily covered in fruit, but three others have none at all and are madly growing leaves instead. Blackcurrants and redcurrants and one of those hybrid clambering things (forget its name) are smothered in fruit.

[pigeonseed]

Yes no apples at all on three trees, no cherries on one tree, about 5 on another.

Only a few raspberries. But loads of strawberries and blackcurrants - just all green as grass. This time last year we were eating all those summer fruit! 

[boydzfish]

Some apples coming through but second year with no cherries although the tree looks healthy enough. Mind you the blossom took a bit of a bashing so maybe that's why.

[pigeonseed]

Yes it was cold and windy, maybe pollination wasn't good.

And the snails have taken to roosting in my cherry tree, so even though I netted the one tree with cherries on, the snails ate them anyway  ::)

maybe they're trying to keep away from all the snails on the ground!  ;D

[Melbourne12]

I think it depends on whether the varieties were early or late flowering as to the effect of the bad weather.  For us, the plums took the worst hit, and some varieties of gooseberry.  The apples survived pretty well.

[Digeroo]

I thought I had very few apples on my Discovery.  But the other side away from the house is full.  I prefer the tree to produce few fruits since they are bigger and I do not have to pick off the excess.

[Hi_Hoe]

Our apple tree was absolutley loaded with blossom earlier this year, but checked yesterday and found only 4 apples growing?

Cherries not doing great either.

Thought we may get our first crop of grapes this year too - vine doing great and we counted about half a dozen bunches forming, but again all strpped bare and down to one bunch!  >:(  bloody slugs....

[Number Six]

Apples and plums doing ok so far but no pears. And my 2 year old cherry tree looks like it's dying - lots of brown-ish leaves lower down and withering branches.