Apple Tree now a Plum Tree

macfarlane.helen · July 2022

Two years ago I had a bramley apple tree in my garden. It was then trimmed quite radically. The next year we got no fruit at all. This year it is producing plums. Can any explain why? I am not going mad as I made apple sauce from the apples. I am totally freaked out!

Dovefromabove · July 2022

It is impossible for an apple tree to produce plums.

To solve this conundrum I think we need photos of the whole tree, the leaves and the fruit (a whole fruit and one cut in half across the equator).

macfarlane.helen · July 2022

fidgetbones · July 2022

Did the apple tree die and a plum tree grow in its place? Apples don't use the same rootstocks as plums, so even pruning hard down to the rootstock would not do this.

Dovefromabove · July 2022

‘ “Curiouser and curiouser!” cried Alice …’

Is it possible to follow the plum branches back to their source and show us where they either join the main tree or come out of the ground?

macfarlane.helen · July 2022

Next to the apple/plum is a very small eating apple tree that produces small green/red apples. My husband thinks that branches poked through the apple/plum tree in the year before they were all chopped back which is why I thought they were from the apple/plum tree. That may have a happened but if it has always been a plum tree, it has only fruited this year. No plums for four years. Plus the apples I think I picked from it were definitely bramley apples that were not edible. Both trees are metres apart and not grafted. I may just marvel at my apple/plum tree and perhaps I will get apples next year!!!

Apple Tree now a Plum Tree

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