I misread something posted by someone else and thought that an apple tree might help with pollination.
To be honest I am puzzled as to why it is not fruiting when the plum tree 6 feet away is yet again laden and wonder whether the tree needs more space. It is surrounded gooseberry bushes.
i think I am clutching at straws
It has also been suggested that another Mirabelle tree would encourage pollination and fruit setting
Yes, not to be rude, but yes, the answer is, I'm sure, just pollination. If you don't have flowers then you won't get fruit, if you get fruitlets but they all drops off then it's stress of some kind. If you don't get any fruitlets forming and you've had flowers then it has to be pollination. Don't forget your cherry plum will flower very early in the year when there is very few pollinating insects about. I had cherries on my Prunus incisa for the first time this year in over four years of beautiful shows of flowers, why?, I cross pollinated it myself with a feather duster, not to pollinate the P. Incisa but to get pollen from it for other early cherries. Prunus Incisa if you don't know it is flowering beautifully by the second week in March up here in Durham while most other things are still fast asleep. Anyway, the point is no bees, no cherries unless you do the job yourself. Yes, a pollinator will help but if you don't have bees no matter how many pollinators you've got you'll need to do the job yourself. We have lots of Cherry Plums in the hedgerows up hear and get a few plums each year but I'm sure we'd get orders of magnitude more if there were more bees about. And no, apples won't help in the least, they're not nearly closely related enough.
Jim and all. Can anyone help Allotment Dave with a problem he's got with his plums ? I've bumped his thread up twice and no answers. currently on page 2.
Did you get any joy from your mirabelle yet? If you don't have flowers, but it is a young tree, is it suffering from water stress at bud formation time? quite a lot of trees/shrubs need water in summer, as that is when they set the buds for the following spring.
I have a mirabelle that is still very young (bought as a 1year old whip from a local Suffolk nursery 3 years ago) and it was covered in flowers in spring 2016, but then hardly any this year (2017). On watering more assiduously in summer as I was worried, it now seems to have lotsof flower buds for spring 2018.
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I misread something posted by someone else and thought that an apple tree might help with pollination.
To be honest I am puzzled as to why it is not fruiting when the plum tree 6 feet away is yet again laden and wonder whether the tree needs more space. It is surrounded gooseberry bushes.
i think I am clutching at straws
It has also been suggested that another Mirabelle tree would encourage pollination and fruit setting
Yes, not to be rude, but yes, the answer is, I'm sure, just pollination. If you don't have flowers then you won't get fruit, if you get fruitlets but they all drops off then it's stress of some kind. If you don't get any fruitlets forming and you've had flowers then it has to be pollination. Don't forget your cherry plum will flower very early in the year when there is very few pollinating insects about. I had cherries on my Prunus incisa for the first time this year in over four years of beautiful shows of flowers, why?, I cross pollinated it myself with a feather duster, not to pollinate the P. Incisa but to get pollen from it for other early cherries. Prunus Incisa if you don't know it is flowering beautifully by the second week in March up here in Durham while most other things are still fast asleep. Anyway, the point is no bees, no cherries unless you do the job yourself. Yes, a pollinator will help but if you don't have bees no matter how many pollinators you've got you'll need to do the job yourself. We have lots of Cherry Plums in the hedgerows up hear and get a few plums each year but I'm sure we'd get orders of magnitude more if there were more bees about. And no, apples won't help in the least, they're not nearly closely related enough.
Jim and all. Can anyone help Allotment Dave with a problem he's got with his plums ? I've bumped his thread up twice and no answers.
currently on page 2.
Did you get any joy from your mirabelle yet? If you don't have flowers, but it is a young tree, is it suffering from water stress at bud formation time? quite a lot of trees/shrubs need water in summer, as that is when they set the buds for the following spring.
I have a mirabelle that is still very young (bought as a 1year old whip from a local Suffolk nursery 3 years ago) and it was covered in flowers in spring 2016, but then hardly any this year (2017). On watering more assiduously in summer as I was worried, it now seems to have lotsof flower buds for spring 2018.
Just a thought!