How come my apple tree isnt producing fruit?
Question:It isnt even producing any flowers. It is a young tree we planted it 4 years ago. It is growing and looks good, just no fruit. It HAD fruit on it when we bought it. Also we have other apple trees and fruit trees in the yard to pollinate it and they are all producing.
One other question, there is an older apple tree on our street that last year was covered with delicious apples and this year nothing.. why?
Answers:
Weather plays a big part on fruiting trees of all kinds. When conditions are not right some fruit bearing trees will not fruit for many years. They may flower but not produce. My plum tree has not bore for two years now, but has flowered last year. Some trees will forgo fruiting when strong growth appears and therefore use all of it's energy growing. Try trimming to keep it small and minimizing growth for a couple of years and see where it gets you.
maybe not enough water?
Could be the harsh frost from earlier this year. It killed out my cherry tree.
Trees respond to different weather conditions, If you experienced severe cold near spring (after blossoms started to form) then you may not get fruit this year. Florida orange crops come to mind? try again next year.
suk ur dingdesdums(apples)
apple trees have a good year and the next year not so good is your nonproductive one in full sun the same verity as the others you have? is it really capable of producing fruit and fruit in your area
This is simple science. The richness of the soil depends on the amount of decomposing into the purest product is occurring. If your tree isn't growing, or even producing fruit, then there's a big problem: your tree just isn't getting enough nutrients to do what it does best. This may be due to a disease the tree caught, and, yes trees and all other living things can catch diseases just like we can. You'd better look online to see what disease it might possibly be, if not more than one (in which case the tree is possibly already dead; have you noticed any tree limbs starting to droop? This is caused by the deficiency in quality of wood once the tree grows a little. If your tree has a disease, then you should know within several months, since the tree will have put enough weight into its limbs for at least some drooping to become apparent. And if the tree starts producing soft bark, especially around the trunk, which has the most evident growth each year versus any of the limbs, your tree is dying or almost dead already! In that case, best to have it replaced and removed once your budget will allow (don't wait too long, though, since a dead tree has weak roots, and isn't anchored as well to the ground as when it lived). Also, make sure to check the tree for tiny holes, in which case you may have termites infesting the tree and killing it (if it isn't producing fruit, then it's probably pretty severe, to the point where it doesn't even have enough xylem or phloem lines (as I remember it from the eighth grade a few years back, xylem carries the nutrients up and phloem carries the nutrients down) to even be able to grow fruit. If you don't find any tiny holes (large enough for a termite to crawl in), then it definately has some manner of degenrative disease. By the way, the disease can only be treated through specialized nutrient formulas that eliminate the strain of viruses infecting it, but first, you've got to know how long your tree's got (if it's only a few months, then, just like any fatal virus strain, if there's only a few months left, it's likely terminal (and note that when you find out what disease it is, there is a good possibility that this is true!), and you better just let the tree die. Anyhow, search the web a little, and you'll find your answer (after you've checked the tree, of course).
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