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Apple blossom falling off before opening

SkandiSkandi Posts: 1,723
in Fruit & veg
Does anyone have any idea why the flower buds would fall off a 4 year old brambly before they open?
It produced a bud at every spur (right name?) but only one cluster of maybe 20 actually went on to open, all the others stopped growing when very small still tightly closed. when you look at them the whole cluster seems to have been neatly sliced off as if by a miniature cheese wire where it joins the tree.
Is the tree just deciding it can't manage that many flowers? (I thought I was going to have to remove a lot of fruit) or is there a pest that does this? The other apple tree I have (about 7m away) which is a good 30 years old is covered and hasn't lost any flowers at all.

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  • bertrand-mabelbertrand-mabel Posts: 2,697
    As always the answer is...too cold, too wet, too windy!!!!
    Fruit trees will take a year off as our Falstaffs did last year and then this year covered in blossom.
    Our very elderly brambly circa 70 years has continued to flower and produce fruit every year. A fabulous tree and much loved by us.
    Maybe yours just wants a rest.
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