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Any apples yet?
Gareth99
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in Fruit & veg
Hello all,
Is anyone seeing any fruit starting to grow on their apple trees right now? I'm currently seeing zilch, despite a wonderful display of blossom a month or so ago. I'm sure I had apples on all 3 trees coming along by this time last year or am I mistaken? Cherries and blueberries are looking good though.
Best,
Gareth.
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Now you come to mention it - a very poor fruit set on my apple tree, too. And I expected great things, given the absence of frost etc. I can only assume that the insect pollinators had been adversely affected at the critical time.
Thanks, both. Seems I am not alone. I wonder if the mild but wet winter has not helped matters either. Fingers crossed for a late harvest.
G
mine are doing great up in the north east. My Redlove Era apple has approx 92 fruits swelling (to be thinned) and my cox orange pippin is also doing great all around 2cm across now
Sorry to say, Gareth, but if you don't have fruit setting now, there will be no "late harvest".
Ah, well - that's the way it goes! Glut one year, famine the next. We gardeners just have to go with the flow.
Mine seem to be all bearing fruit even the newly cordoned one I bought this year, in north Yorkshire.
*shakes fist at northerners and their apples*
Never mind. My poppies and roses are looking good this year so i'll have to make do with them.
Cheers, all!
Hey gareth, my roses are full of buds if not flowering and the poppies(which I never planted) are looking lovely,
My Redlove Era apple is loaded with fruit, here in Suffolk.
Nothing on ours (South Yorkshire) but my pear tree is very loaded.
Here in Norfolk Braeburn and falstaff Red planted Christmas time now about 4 to 5 feet tall both had about 10 tiny apples on which i removed ,maybe next year or the year after for picking ,hope iv done right. Alan4711