5 Reasons Fruit Trees Aren’t Fruiting or Stopped Fruiting
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- Опубліковано 4 чер 2024
- Growing fruit trees can be very rewarding, but when they don’t produce fruit after waiting for 4-5 years or even longer, it can be frustrating to say the least. In this episode we will cover the 5 most common reasons your fruit trees might not be producing fruit.
My new little Bartlett pear produced 4 fruits last year: I found out the hard way that squirrels will eat pear blossoms! This year I netted it during the bloom period and I've got about 20 pears.
Squirrels have been our problem this year as well...They dont seem to like plums though! Cheeries, Apples, pears...all performed poorly this year on the new tree front.
My squirrels are putting holes in my screened porch. I've got humane traps but if they don't work . . .
Shoot them.
What kind of netting did you use
@@muhammadchoudhury2046 I'd use a fine netting so the new leaves can't grow out through it like a larger netting. Insect netting works.
Just what I need Perfect timing! ❤
Thanks for getting this information out to us. I appreciate your time and videos. HUGS and GOD bless you all 🤗.
Thank you so much! My apple tree produced a ton last year, and had numerous flowers this year, but only a couple handfuls of fruit came out of it. I now have some tools to try. Feeding it for starters. 😁
I find all your videos fruitful lol even the stuff I don’t grow but now I am. Thank you so much for truthful information you have encouraged me so much I need a bigger garden. All you advice has given me amazing results thank you very much. 😊 love and gratitude from the south of the UK. 🇬🇧
Very informative! I was beginning to wonder about my old apple tree. Thanks :)
Amazing how plants adapt . Good info.
Growing fruit tree information is great , thank you.
I took out an invasive tree root in my raised bed that was stealing nutrients from my cucumbers the last 2 years. When I figured out what was happening, and got rid of that root, and my cucumbers did great this year. What was happening was... a seed fell from a tree next door into my garden, and even though I kept pulling out the tree plant, the root was still under the ground, getting bigger.
Where you buy your fruit trees makes a big difference. Big box stores seem to provide inferior fruit trees.
Great video. That annoying April snow got us two years in a row, but I need to fertilize too, thanks.
Thank you! You answered all my lemon tree questions. Amazing....you're good....♥️
Years ago, I had an apple tree that had the same issues as yours Luke. Like yours, it was growing crooked and was under pruned. I straightened it with a post and pruned it heavily and it produced like mad the following year.
When did you do the heavy prune - summer or winter?
@@daniellefragoso7839 In early spring before leaf out. Could have also done it in fall after the leaves had fallen.
I did the exact same thing and mine died. Made good fire wood though
Thank you...this channel sooo helpful ALWAYS
I just subscribed your channel 2 hours ago and i cant stop watching your video
Great info thank you!
Always great information 👍
You are the man. I just realized you sold seeds. I will be ordering all my stuff from you. Do you sell fruit trees? Thanks from Louisiana
I have a 20 year old red delicious apple tree that appears healthy except that two branches on opposite sides of the tree have dried up in a matter of weeks. Tree is in a lawn area and gets regular watering. Location is Sandy Utah where we have had extended high temps this summer. I had a similar problem several years ago with a cherry tree with multiple varieties nested to it. I cut back the effected branches but the problem persisted until I just cut down the tree. Any recommendations, I really enjoy your Chanel and have learned a great deal from your vids, keep up the great work
Very interesting! I heard before that chlorosis is due to iron deficiency..... I learn something every day. Thanks Luke!
Yes, it's called Iron chlorisis, but sometimes it's not because iron isn't present, but rather your pH is too high (or low), rendering the iron unavailable for use. In that case, altering pH is the answer (when feasible), not just adding more nitrogen.
Though I do not have fruit trees, I did learn something new that I could give information to someone that does.
I have found that fish hydroslate and kelp. Neptune harvest has a great product. Spray mid April than 2 weeks after pedal fall. 6 oz to gallon mid April. 2 oz to gallon after pedal fall.
My orange tree was full of white flies one yr, then I bought all the best fertilizer and stuff to take care of bugs. The next year it had many oranges. Then, the freeze came and killed all my citrus. Now, I need to find another orange tree, but I can't find any. Hopefully in the fall I will find some.
Very good presentation and information
Thanks
Thank you
Great info 👍
This is such a helpful video. Thank you! Can you please recommend a book that i can purchase that covers this type of Information so I may reference it in the future?
THANK YOU
Hi Luke - have gone through some videos and hoping you can help me. I have two pear trees started from seed in Nov 2021. They almost died last summer as containers were too small - I transplanted early fall and wasn't sure they'd survive the winter. Imagine my surprise when leaves popped out on both this spring. They are around 2 feet tall with no branches at this point. Issue is, they are very thin and after some rain this week the tops have tipped and are nearly touching the ground. No breaks, but is staking the only option here? Also, how do I encourage stem growth?
A little more info on what is the best natural compost ingredients to use for this. For those who cant always buy fertilizer?
I was afraid I’d mess up pruning my fruit trees but I finally did it last winter and I had 1 plum, 1 apple and 2 peach trees that exploded with fruit this year. One of the peach trees still has very small green fruit that never grew. It had a few branches that did have ripe fruit but the deer got all of those. What would cause only some of the fruit to grow and ripen?
Perfect time for this.
I have 2 different apple trees in my yard that I’m so frustrated with I’m think I’m going to cut them down. They have been fruiting for about 5 years but the apples never get bigger then a dime on either tree. I have trimmed, fertilized, and even added a crabapple tree this year to see if it was a pollination issue. They stay that size all year and then by fall both trees get diseased really bad. Think it’s time to make some wood chunks for the smoker.
Apple trees are quite easy to grow, especially ones grafted on a dwarf rootstock. Need to notice cherries can cross-sterilize each other if wrong varietes are planted too close to each other. Imo it's always good to allow extra time for planning before buying fruit trees
Recently, my young Gala apple tree succumbed to the unusually high heat/heavy rains here in the Northeast. The leaves dried up and fell off. Someone thought it might have just gone dormant and may revive next season. If this is true, how would I check to see if it is still viable? My Fuji apple tree was also stressed but is currently doing ok (it was a slightly larger tree when we bought them). TY! :D
Will you be showing how to properly prune an apple tree? I have an espalier apple tree.
My two Gravenstein apple trees and my Golden Delicious are always extremely prolific, and this year is no exception. However, they all and my Bartlett pear have fire blight. The pear, usually prolific, gave us about 20 pears this year. My plum tree which always produces loads of fruit---zilch this year. But, my area has been under extreme drought for years now and it could be stressed from lack of water.
Ok, I have a 7 year old Gravenstein, it looks healthy as can be, but it won't fruit. Can you help? ! P.s
I bought golden delicious this year because I know it's a pollinator. I'm on 6b CT
@@Viva_la_natura I wish I knew but I am not a master gardener. I don't know why my trees are so productive, especially because I hardly ever fertilize them. Do you have a master gardener in your area? Or maybe consult an arborist who specializes in fruit trees?
I planted a pink lady seed from and apple maybe 6 years ago and the tree has branches over 6ft and get lots of great leaves but never had flowers or fruit
Thank you, what if you have two apples tree approx ten years old and they don't even produce blossom? I have pruned them, cut out canker etc, but there are not fruit spurs forming. Other apple trees close by of the same variety are smaller, younger and over fruit. So how do I help these older ones actually form fruit spurs? What are the stages of fruit production before you even get to blossom? I can't find this answer anywhere.
I bought some seeds apple, and organge ones now it says stratogise how would I do that by putting the seeds in a zip lock bag and in a fridge or put the seeds it self
Pruning sends hormones back down the stems and signals the tree to bear fruit. It’s so important to prune. Think of petunias. If you don’t prune them through the summer you just have leggy seed making plants. Prune throughout the summer and it sends out new shoots with flowers. Not quite the same but very very similar.
Either that, or it'll just stress it and kill it.
The problem is each time you prune the tree is more vulnerable to bacteria and viruses, especially if there's more fruit trees around or already existing problem
I got a peach tree from Walmart on clearance and the 1st year it produced about 30 large peaches. I had to support that tiny tree. It produced a couple of blossoms at the end of winter and a frost killed them off. Now I jyat have a lot of foliage and new growth but no buds or flowers.
I would just chop it down. Seems like a lost cause
Please make a thorough video of cherry trees.
I have one lemon tree with more than 90 years old and three orange trees with 70 (great grandfather did it) and all of them are full of life!!
Old quote that society works best when older people plant trees knowing that it is their kids, grandkids, etc. that will benefit from the shade and fruit.
This was so helpful , Can I prune my apple tree in the Summer though ?
Thank you @Jack Francis for the helpful information 😁 .
Aye I live near Luke and I was wondering about this. Mine are only 1 and 2 years old right now.
I topped mine last year n will remove some branches but the blossoms were mostly on what I removed so is there a trick to get them on the older parts ??
My lemon tree has been planted in the ground for, 3 years now, I get flowers and they get pollinated, but it is the wind that blows all my flowers away..this year, like right now, I only have 2 lemons..which are still green..
Hi I have 2 plum trees on my property and they..do. not produce fruit
I trimmed one should do both and when should I do this
I purchased some columnar apple trees. 2 of them never flowered. 2 of them flower every year, but we only got a harvest once. A lot of apples for 2 little trees. But, it’s one of my least favorite garden mistakes I’ve made so far…
I just grew this winter from seed 5 trees ,and planted them in the ground this spring...they seem to be doing ok
Yes I had a pomegranate that only had one flower in past 7 years.🙁
I have a large crabapple that I just planted all my apples around. Should provide ample pollination
32 to 45 degrees is chill hours.
I just learned that trees have brains. Crazy.
Here in Florid we have 2 mango trees and 3 orange trees and 2 banana trees
I didn't see any spurs for the flowers and fruit. Over fertilized?
I'm worried I must've topped and stunted my Valencia orange tree (I'm in north central Florida). I also think I might not be fertilizing enough. The tree, which is more like a bush, only stands mid-thigh high, if that. The leaves are very dark green but it never grows taller and rarely blooms. Here's the shocking part... It's been in the ground 10 years! 10! And has never given any fruit. I'm sure there's people reading this saying DIG IT UP! But I just had no desire to give up until last year when I started really aggressively growing things and I want every space to be working for me. I have a VERY productive Hamlin orange tree about 20' away. The Myer lemon closest to this Valencia is also a poor producer. 😔 Any advice is appreciated.
What season do you prune? How tall should you prune to?
This might be an issue. I have a si gle fruit tree in the front yard. Hopefully by planting a mix of garden flowers will attract bees to pollinate, if that's how things work. Newbie here.
I am lucky enough to live in an area that always gets a late frost that kills all my fruit every year. At least they are good to hang birdhouse gourds for baby birds.
I think I may have over pruned my apple tree last year. There were some dead looking branches on it last summer. Also, it gets the bullseye on the leaves. *sighs*
My issue is my Russian pomegranate doesn't want to break dormancy? When I prune it to check the wood for life it appears based on color etc to be alive but here we are almost in june and it still looks dormant. Do you know the issue? I left it outside to build cold tolerance but during very cold weather I brought it in at night in a cold area when it was too cold outside but within an acceptable temperature to not break dormancy early. Its obviously not dead it just wont produce new growth. I did repot it beginning of March.
I wish you would of explained cold hrs.how cold does it have to stay to be considered
Some apple trees, when they get older, only fruit every other year. I have a very old one and it produces a LOT of apples, but only every other year
It seems like this is the way with the one on my property too, it's not my property I rent the upstairs so I am not sure which tree this is but last year tonnes this year there's about 20, at the top
My lime tree is about 8 years and only had 1 lime on it, it started of flowering, then dropping the flowers.
To bearing a small fruit, then dropping. Now it gets to the size of peas and drops off. Do I try take the flowers and try pollinate some other flowers in it???? I don't know what I'm doing wrong.
Luke, how do you keep looking so young?
Love your advise. God bless
fresh fruits and vegetables , an active lifestyle and lots of fresh clean air and sunshine
I’ve got orange spots on my Apple tree that is 2 years old, any suggestions for the fungus?
I have a pineapple plant 3 years old growing in a very large pot it is very big with lots of green leaves and also new growth but there are not growning flowers or pineapples live in South Florida
I watched one of your videos from 4 yrs ago and people were noting that you were cutting the fruiting spurs of the tree (mistakenly thinking they were water sprouts). Maybe that is affecting your yield?
Any advice on how to prune?
Whole books are written on that subject. If you have a specific plant you want to prune, Google it - you'll find some things need to be pruned at specific times for good reasons. How much to take off at a time varies also. It also depends on your goal (direct shape, encourage growth, encourage flowers/ fruit, etc.) & the type of plant & where you live. :)
I have an orange tree I've had for going on 5 years I think. It's never bloomed. It looks good looks healthy green is a gord but no blooms! All kinds of growth but no blooms! I'm sure it's a t kind of fertilizer I need I just don't know which one. I'm going to watch this and try and find out.😁
I bought and am growing a dwarf mulberry tree. It took some time to root the cutting, but it's now growing like a stick... Er... That's my question. I thought it would branch on it's own given it being a dwarf. But it's now about 6' tall and only leaves. How do I get it to stop growing up and start branching?
You can try notching it. But now it's to late on the season anyway to get a lot of new growth. Next year, try making a cut right above a bud at the heigh where you want your branches. Around 1/3 of the whole trunk diameter. If the tree starts branching on its own, notching will make the bud under it grow more vigorously. You can check more about notching here on UA-cam, usually is done in other types of fruit trees, but I guess it would work just fine in mulberries as well
Hello
I have two apple trees about 15 feet apart, and have had all the problems you mention. I get very little fruit from them, and that small amount either falls off or rots on the tree. 10 years her and I have never ate an apple from my trees. I also have a crab apple tree about 20 ft from the two non bearing trees and the crab apple tree has apples galore every year...I dont know what to do.
This year I have about 10 apples growing in 1 branch of 1 tree and no where else and not a apple on the other...
The crab tree is doing well
I wish I knew the answer to this (but don’t), but have had the same problem….some fruit trees are doing well almost immediately, and some look healthy and growing, but little to no blossoms or fruit. One might be too young (a 3-year-old lemon tree), but trying to address things like drainage, fertilizing, mulching, etc.
I have a lime tree that has no flowers at all. Tons of green leaves. Last year we had 4 limes. We have a lemon tree right by that gets a ton. Previous homeowner said limes did the best and he had tons. We water, mulch fertilizer and yet nothing. CA ZONE 9b
You probably need a new fruit tree
I thought fertilizer for apple trees should be sprinkled around the "drip edge" of the tree which is not what u are doing?
Thx
I have a apple tree that just will not bloom. It is 5 years old and looks great. I prune it fairly heavily in February. It's the only thing in my garden that doesnt do anything :/
5 years grown from seed? Apple trees can take 10+ years to start producing fruit when grown from seed, hang in there a while longer.
Is Trifecta Plus water soluble?
I have a peach tree that does great. It’s almost 20 years old. I have another one that when I first planted it, I over watered it (forgot and left the water on) and then had a hard rain that drowned it the rest of the way and it died. I cut it off ground level. After a while I noticed the roots kept sending shoots up. After cutting those down multiple times, I decided to tend to one of them and allow it to grow. It grew into a nice big peach tree. But for the last few years it grows peaches but they never get bigger than a walnut and they never change their color from green to peach either. Why is this and what do I do?
It has stunted growth. Just keep putting a lot of fertilizer until you see results. Don't worry about root burn, it'll absorb it quickly
The rootstock is probably not a peach. The peach was probably grafted onto another type of tree which acts as the root of the tree. Your new tree grown from the root is probably not a peach at all. It would be interesting to know what it is. Several rootstocks are used for peaches depending on your climate zone.
My grapefruit is about 7 yrs old .. has never flower and no fruits. I have a little lime tree near which gave lots of flowers and I see some limes growing
....didn't find my question here. I prune my espalier apple tree. 3 leaves above the basil growth along the horizontal branches. Following year no flowers at all. What am I doing wrong??????
Another reason why your fruit tree produces no fruit. If you use fall fertilizer on your lawn near your fruit trees, the fruit trees absorb the nitrogen and keep growing into fall without setting fruit buds. If you fertilize your lawn in the fall stay at least 15 feet away from your fruit trees and let them set proper fruit buds and enter proper dormancy in the late fall. Also apple and pear trees need a bit of boron to produce fruit. You can use one teaspoonful of old fashioned "20 mule borax" dissolved in a watering can full of water sprinkled around the base of your adult size tree once a year to provide boron. Be careful however, some fertilizers contain a bit of boron in their mix and you don't want to double up on it. Too much is poisonous to your trees (especially peach and nectarines) so don't use fertilizer containing boron and the borax together.
I have a Kieffer pear that is 6 years old and has never flowered. What am I missing?
Question: He said that you need multiple trees near each other for cross pollination and fruiting. But when I drive on the highway there are random apple trees all alone with no apples but are absolutely covered in apples??
My yard are mostly cemented and there's not enough space to fertilize them unless too near to tree ...why can I do?
Luke I’m also from Michigan and have NO clue how to care for this 15 foot ancient apple tree that came with my home. I don’t want to kill it but I have zero knowledge.
Question I have plating a longon tree over 10 year but never flowers
Hi, I always thought fertilizing the plant will bring more leaves, and under-fertilizing stimulates the blooms and fruiting. Is my understanding wrong?
Yeah. You gotta fertilize it. As to how much you apply per tree, good luck. You'll never find a straight answer
Doesn't the red bud tree supply nitrogen to the soil? Aren't there companion planting with fruit trees also?
Apple tree question... would grafting a cutting from an ancient apple tree (>100 yr old, fallen and rooted decades ago, still produces massive loads of fruit... but not quite as massive as usual lately) into a young new rootstock be like "resetting" the tree's biological clock?
It would, you should definitely try to save that tree. Do you know the name of the variety? Those older apple trees sometimes are very valuable as their variety is sometimes forgotten or thought extinct.
@@jcuevasbustamante it's a very, very old yellow transparent and it makes some of the best applesauce ever.
How close do the trees need to be to one another?
My lemon tree bloom last year but was too young to hold fruit. This year I only got 5 flowers and only two lemons. Any suggestions?
Same like my cherry trees,a ton and of flowers, but every cherry tree only two ( tiny) cherry 🍒.
Now give us a video where your veggies are literally at a standstill and what to do. My peppers must be growing about 1 mm at a time.
I feel ya there. My peppers this year are growing slowly and they don't seem to want to ripen.
I was having that problem, and wasn't sure if it was the unusually high temps or the excessive rain we got this year. Even my zucchini slowed production. I ended up adding extra calcium and fertilizer and they have started growing again. Not sure if they were stressed or what, but I'm hopeful the production will pick up! :D
I have 3 crabapples that came with the house. I want to plant a cherry 🍒, peach 🍑 and plum tree.
Have you checked the calcium/magnesium levels?
I have a 5 years old apricot tree which blooms every year but doesn’t give me any fruit, the tree is so healthy and well nurtured , what should I do?
But Luke how do i determine the 20% of my tree that needs pruning?
One good way to start is the triple D's. Dead, dying, diseased. Then you cut the ones that are growing straight up the branches (suckers). The ones that are crossing with each other, and those that are growing inwards (towards the trunk). If you cut up to 1/3 of the tree, it will be alright. The more you prune, the more vigorous it will come back next year. You can prune now in the fall, but it's better to prune in late winter/early spring
Mine are old and have been overtaken by the forest north of me.
Sorry but I missed if there's no flowering at all not related to frost. My fruit trees are 4 years old and planted last year.
You can try tying the branches down to get them to grow more horizontally, although a good angle is between 45-60 degrees. That way they will produce fruiting wood. Most apples produce fruit and flowers out of what is call spurs. You have to be careful when pruning, because they develop on last year growth
years ago I planted a Baldwin apple. It took twelve years to produce. On another note, too much nitrogen leads to some plants to produce leaves but no fruit. Same for trees?
Good question! :D