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Apple tree problems

pclark42pclark42 Posts: 186
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This is what is happening to the leaves on my 2-year-old apple, it's a Braeburn. last year at only one-year-old it produced 5 apples, this Spring the blossom on it was so lovely but not a single apple was produced, the leaves keep curling up and falling off, and these marks that look like burns are on them, the new fresh leaves start so nice and light green, but soon they go the same way. Can anyone advise
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  • chickychicky Posts: 10,410
    I don’t recognise the leaf problem - sorry.

    However, when we planted apple trees we were told to pick all the fruit off before it got too big (ie in May) for the first three years so the tree could concentrate on making roots and getting established before using its energy on producing fruit.  It was a long wait !!! But they now all fruit well every year.

    So maybe your tree exhausted itself last year and is trying to recuperate. Might also explain the leaf drop too.
  • Dollystocks8Dollystocks8 Posts: 196
    My apple trees were rather sad this year, no blooms, no fruits. Year old, but one has gone rather dry leaved!☹️
  • Dollystocks8Dollystocks8 Posts: 196
    Lots of lovey experts on here, so hopefully they will advise us
  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,147
    Like @Fairygirl I didn’t allow  my pear to carry any fruit until it was 4 years old. Then I only left one pear on it. The following year I allowed it to carry two. The following year four. The next year it carried ten. 

    I also ensured that it was well watered (several gallons each time) through the spring and summer each year.

    Even now that it’s about eight years old I watered it thoroughly over the very dry April we had, and again in July and August as the fruit were swelling.

     Fruit and foliage make heavy demands for water on young roots that are still establishing and have yet to reach far down below the surface. 

    Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.





  • chickychicky Posts: 10,410
    Not Fairy @Dovefromabove …its me.  Although we are very alike 🤣🤣🤣
  • bertrand-mabelbertrand-mabel Posts: 2,697
    edited September 2021
    We have a Braeburn but it is now 5 years old.
    We didn't take out the fruit for the first few years (meaning we didn't take out the young fruits) and allowed it to complete fruiting.
    It has continued to produce a great harvest.
    Some of our other apples do take a year out and produce no fruit even though they have flowered really well in the Spring.
  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,147
    chicky said:
    Not Fairy @Dovefromabove …its me.  Although we are very alike 🤣🤣🤣
    Aaaargggh! Sorry @chicky … I’m letting my brain have a holiday too 😵‍💫

    Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.





  • FairygirlFairygirl Posts: 55,117
    You're really losing the plot now @Dovefromabove  :D
    @Dollystocks8 - if the tree's only a year old [it's not yet a tree ;) ] you need to just follow the advice above re leaving it for a while to mature. Keep it well watered. The foliage is probably dried out because of that. Have you got a photo?

    I think the tree in the first post has scab, or similar,  of some kind - quite common in some varieties. @BobTheGardener might be able to help.  :)
    It's a place where beautiful isn't enough of a word....



    I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
  • Dollystocks8Dollystocks8 Posts: 196
    Thank you - will take a quick photo!
  • pclark42pclark42 Posts: 186
    If of any interest I purchased 3 Apple, all grafted on root stock from a well-established place in Buckinghamshire, the Braeburn was the strongest and grew the fastest and is now 2 metres high, one of the others is a Blenheim Orange, this too has suffered with the leaf problem, but this one has now shot up really tall about 2.7 metres. Did someone say it may be Scab? and if so what shall I do?
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