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Fruiting fruit trees
AHR
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in Fruit & veg
Good morning.
Why did my fruit trees have a bad 2016 ? And what can/should I do differentl.
I have two fruit trees. One is a pear and the other is a plum. I have never cut these back but I do feed with blood fish and bone and I also mulch each year.
I bought these as one year old fruit trees and have had them for the last 4 years.
Year one - no fruit
year two - good amount of fruit on both trees but never fully ripened
year three - good amount of edible fruit on both trees
year four - one plum and no pears.
I understand that it can take upto 5 years to get good crops of fruit but as said above I had good amounts of fruit in the 2nd and 3rd year.
Many thanks for your replys in advance
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These are victoria plum and conference pears
Hello Giddy
What was the weather like at blossom time?
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
I don't think the weather was too good last year but I'm not too sure. I'm in south Suffolk / north Essex
I remember a cold spell in late spring last year. I didn't get a single pear or peach. It is safer to grow apples, however we love to take risk and have as wider range of fruits as possible. .
I now have two pear trees. I had one that is supposedly self fertile and I got a lot of very small fruit that mostly just fell off. There are now two as I got bored with the Victoria Plum after two good cropping years that basically were just a haven for plum moths...
We have an espaliered Concorde pear planted 4 years ago - we had our first fruit last year - lots of little ones fell during the June Drop, but we were left with two - one on each end of the bottom tier of branches - which is the most we would have allowed the tree to produce anyway at this stage- they ripened well and were delicious. Hopefully we'll get at least four this year
Concorde is self-fertile and the only pear tree in our garden - I don't know whether there are any pears in neighbouring gardens, so no idea whether it's getting additional pollination.
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Thanks for your replies. Hopefully this year will be a better year for my fruit trees. time will tell