Great tips, my friend. This happened to my young orange tree in the last 2 years. One year I had one orange that made it to the end. Last year, there was 3 and this year about 30 plus. I fed the tree and water it more. Happy days ahead :)
I had just looked up how to help fruit drop and stumbled back upon this. Cheers to run into you again on my planting journey 🎉 I have a grown white peach dropping peaches early that I’m trying to help. My mom just passed and I’ve taken over her garden so I’ll be back for more help
Mark, even your old vids are gold! I have a 4-year-old fig tree that has been setting tons of fruit twice per year, then consistently aborting them. I was planning to rip it out, but I'm determined to give it a bunch of lovin and see how it goes.
I have spent 20 mins and multiple videos trying to figure out why my peach trees dropped the fruit/buds. I see it was a lack of water. I have to figure out how much water I need to give them at each watering. I initially though I was giving them to much water as I saw the leaves a bit yellow now they are shriveled a bit. I have to find a balance. Thank you for this video!!
Good evening, great video. Here in the U.S. we have a pear tree that has like white patchy fungus growing on it. Since it's our 1st fruit tree unsure of treatment and correct nutrition for it. I've searched internet unable to find the information I need. Over the last 6 years we've had abundant fruit, to almost none. Fluctuates from year to year. Today I noticed she doing prematurely. We have had enough rain, don't see pests... would absolutely love knowledgeable help. Much thanks.
*Blossom and fruit dropping happens when trees/plant go into self survival mode. One reason is when the plant is constantly getting too much direct sunlight for its photosynthesis needs. To convert all that energy its getting it’s gonna drop blossoms/fruits so it can use all the stored energy to start new blooms. What I do is make sure my plants are only getting morning to noon direct sunlight and shade (indirect sunlight) during the rest of the day.*
I think this might be my issue too. I initially thought I was overwatering, but I live in Florida with SCORCHING sun and heat that has fried the blossoms within 24 hours. The fruit drop has been consistent, so I just brought it inside. Crossing my fingers and hoping for the best!
good day to you Mark !! 👍👍😁😁 Thanks for sharing your thoughts, knowledge and experiences with us all today on how to stop fruit drop on your fruit trees 😁😁👍👍
My grandpa has a guava tree and it’s dumping a lot of guava that aren’t full grown, they’re pretty small but still sweet, I think it’s probably a combination of not enough water and over producing issues. But we just had some heavy rain so hopefully it helps the rest to mature
Great info and now i know why.......imperial mandarin has dropped 4 fruit as they turning orange.(in pot).....so i have fed slow release troforte ....put some mulch on it and will water more frequently.....thanks......your vids are always great.
Thank you sir. But my question is regarding my apple premature yellowing and drop. What to do now plz mention. Soil testing shows the increase level of potassium, remaining all sets normal. ❤❤
My tiny fruit are drying up and drop but the others seem to be ok, why only the tiny ones drop🤔🤔🤔🤔thank you so...so...much for these awesome videos🥰 I'm in the Tx area.
Hello Mark, I am in Melbourne. We have two orange trees. Last year we had hundreds of oranges that were just amazing. After harvesting the fruit in August 2017, we put bush mulch on the garden including over the orange trees. We also pruned a wattle tree that is right next to the orange trees (at least, the tree pruner did). I was careful to feed with citrus feed, and water, and added spent coffee grounds from the cafe in case the raw bush mulch was drawing nitrogen from the soil. Anyway in September both trees were covered in blossom, with hoards of bees buzzing around and eventually many small fruit set. However we had a blast of hot windy weather in November/December and even though I hosed the ground under the trees constantly, most of the fruits except about five, dropped. I was sooooooooooooooo upset! Over the next few weeks, all remaining fruit dropped. Meanwhile the leaves looked amazing. So I pruned the trees heavily, hoping to get the trees to bloom and fruit again. However that has not happened. Why do you think the fruit dropped? Can unseasonal hot windy weather have such an effect when the fruit are only currant size? What about the bush mulch? Any thoughts?
Yep you nailed it alright! The hot blast must have affected the fruit set and growth. I doubt that the mulch had anything to do with it. This is part of gardening we've experienced so many disappointments and that's why every great harvest is always a blessing and met with excitement because the fickleness of nature can sometimes be cruel. The positive is your trees should have plenty of stored energy for next season. All the best :)
Thanks Mark. Yes gardening has its disappointments, for sure. We still have around ten mandarins on a four year old mandarin tree. That tree did not produce so many fruit initially so it probably didn't get as stressed by the hot spell. Perhaps I should thin the tiny currant size orange fruit manually this spring before any hot weather can attack? Also the trees keep growing water shoots and I keep rubbing them off. Do you think I should just leave it all to grow however it wants now or keep trying to maintain an open tree frame?
Ok here we go! Blossoms are forming on our two orange trees again. We had the nearby wattle tree removed a few months ago and there is only a small layer of mulch (bush mulch) left around the tree as most has been composted down over winter. I have been keeping the ground under the trees well-watered. I am hoping that there will be plentiful blossoms on both trees and plenty of bees. I am then hoping to keep most of the fruit. I think I will need guidance. I haven't got a windbreak if we get a crazy hot wind in November/December again. I am worried we will have all the fruit drop again. I will keep you posted. Any help you can give will be appreciated! I sprinkled on the Neutrog citrus feeder product a month ago. Anything else I can do at this point? Update Sept 15: We had wind and storms today. The buds are still there. I erected some shadecloth at the end of a wind tunnel that led up to the two orange trees to cut down on some of the wind and spread a tarp under one of the trees to stop rain from flooding the soil. Further updates to come.
Here we go again with a very hot spell in Melbourne again but we still have some oranges (not a huge amount) left on our two trees, so I keep watering and scattering more citrus food over the soil underneath the tree. I put shade cloth over one tree but the other tree seems to have done better than the tree with the shade cloth. Also the tree that was not pruned last summer has more fruit than the tree that was pruned. There are a lot of leaves on the unpruned tree and they seem to be shielding the fruit from the harsh weather.
I watered zealously over our recent heatwave and I still have plenty of oranges on the two trees. They are around 4 inches in diameter and still green. Fingers crossed!
Dear Mark, We don't have these kind of plants in Holland, I wish I could have such plants in my garden, but due to the climate we have here, it is impossible to grow citrus plants, but anyway, what an explanation. Thank you for your explanation that you want to share with other people. Viva Australia.👌👌👍👍👍
I discovered a tiny black bird with long beak was the cause in my fruit drop in my unidentified stone fruit tree (Adelaide Australia). Lost all of them last season. Since I've used physical deterrents in the form of plastic milk bottles painted with large black eyes and a red ring around each - no birds ravaging my stone fruits. By the way I grew these trees from seed purchased the fruit in Woolworths. Have no idea what they are. Have slight fur like peach but not as much fur. Taste like apricot but not the same. Are yellow in colour. Large like peach when they ripen. Not overly juicy. Have long four inch hard fruit bearing thorns. They harden up an spike the unwary. Huge round almost heart shaped leaves with reddish stalks when growing and tiny red serrations on edge of leaves. Long reach branches. Rapid growth in Spring. Very tall very fast. Not affected by leaf curl. Whitish spotted dark bark. Any ideas?
Im leasing a home with a peach tree in back yard. The tree has been totally neglected! I don't know why someone would own a home with a peach tree if they were not going to take care of it. But that aside, we have been here three years, and this year is the first season to even have decent peaches (almost decent). There are, what looks like bruses all over the peaches, still on the tree. It has not been taken care of in any way. We are in California San Juaquin Valley-very hot summers. What we have picked taste okay, not real sweet, but eatable. Can you tell me what the "bruse spots" are, and should we eat them... Thank you for your program, I have gain so much from it.
Great presentation. My apricot tree produced wonderful fruit 1 st year, second year the fruit was turning orange colour and now it has rot in the fruit. It also didn’t produce as much fruit this year compared to last year. Any tips ?
My father planted an apple tree in our yard many years ago...it used to produce beautiful fruit when he tended it.He had a paralyzing stroke 8 years ago.He passed away last year. I don't know what he used .The fruit looks terrible with deformities. What can I do organically to to fix it?😊
Good day! sir one of my 1 year old lemon tree dropped all its fruit and leaves i think because of over fertilizing or our climate its raining almost daily but my 79 other trees are normal
Hi have a lemon tree in a pot and it's getting too big now can I bury it into the ground now outside I live in the UK will it survive the winter outside
Hi Mark...i am having the same problem as last year...i have a hickson mandarin in the ground with reasonable amount of fruit on it and i have my imperial mandarin in 50 litre pot with about 10 fruits on it...some fruits are a good size but both trees are dropping fruit which are just starting to turn orange.....so frustrating...they dont mature and go ripe....both trees are a good size......we have been getting some good rain now but its the small ones that seem to be dropping one by one......each day....any ideas mate?
Hopefully I can help0 my avocado tree because we live in the South end of the San Joaquin Valley in California and we are in the middle of another draught in 6/27/21.
Question: My orange tree, in a container, gradually dropped all of its fruit. I fertilized it every quarter (minus the winter season), the leaves are vibrantly green and perk up towards the ceiling. It gets at least 7 hours of sun. My guess is lack of water since I brought it inside, and I heard overwatering is a problem with indoor plants. The last 5 oranges dropped 2 months after I brought the tree inside...and I water it every 2 to 3 weeks. Do you think it may be due to under watering?
thanks for this- I have an almond tree that only had one fruit/nut developing but it dropped it, I will follow your advice + hope for more next season as it is only a young tree. G'day
Older folks around here used to take rusted iron nails & pound them into tree trunks of trees that wouldn't or couldn't hold fruit till harvesting. Next year it worked well. Guess that goes to that mineral deficiency you were talking about.
another one to remember is using copper nails nailed into tree's susceptible to 'curly leaf' such as peach and nectarines. when we were growing up we had peach and nectarine tree's in our backyard that got a bad dose of curly leaf one year. my dad, having grown up on and orchard/ market garden knew of and old trick to use copper nails to get rid of it. after he did that we never had a problem with it again.
catey62 -- this us the type of knowledge that gets lost if we don't share it. WE might not know why it works but if it didn't work all those centuries of farmers wouldn't have done it anymore as farmers DON'T HAVE TIME to WASTE on something that doesn't work. Thanks for more info!!
We have had a mandarin orange (tangerine) fruit tree here in So California for the last ten years. We lose fruit on the tree if we get bad storm with a lot of wind after the fruit has set. This particular tree has always had a fruit drop issue, unlike our other citrus trees.
I'm pruning back my avocado tree at the beginning of the rainy season (June) in hopes of a more abundant harvest next year. I've carried 100 gallons of water a day since January for my 10 year old tree. Lots of compost helps but I'm worn down. The dry season is a struggle. Smaller trees need less water. Hope this works:)
Mark, do you put bags around clumps of fruit? I know that a lot of banana and pawpaw farmers do it to help protect fruit from pests and to organise harvesting time.
Yes, I do protect our bananas and mangoes and several other fruits with bagging or netting - it's a must. However, I don't bag or net any of our citrus because they don't get targeted as much and we grow so many that losing some fruit to animals doesn't matter. Cheers :)
Than you for your video does these information apply to pomegranate tree it doesn’t flower much I mean only very few and then they don’t make it to fruit I add fertiliser and compost water regularly it’s very green and looks healthy same thing with my avocado tree l would appreciated if u can help thank you
Hi thanks for the videos it is informative and very helpful. just a question my lime tree has lots of small tiny black round thingy on the branches. I've tried to remove it by hand and spray with dish washing liquid gailic and cooking oil along with soda bicarbonate, what it does was all the leaves drop after a few days and by it gave a bad itch. Can you please guide me what to do because the year before I think had around 500 fruits and it fruit all year round but since disease arrive hardly had any.
I have a major fruit fall issue with my 7 years old pomegranate tree. Last year only One fruit got fully ripped out of 12 growing ones. Then this year we had more that 30 beautiful blooms and minimally developing fruits, ALL felt! Controversial to what you say here, I was told may be the cause is Too Much water, though I tried to minimally water this year. I am clueless and tree has no pest, all healthy leaves, was trimmed moderately in late winter (So California winters are equal of spring anywhere else) then had a minimal chemical fertilizer this year, natural fertilizer last year. Tree is planted on the southern side of property near house wall so plenty of sun and natural heater at night in temperate climate zone of southern California. PLEASE HELP.
I've got a lemon tree that I put in a plastic 55-gallon drum that I cut in half that's a decent soil in there I have citrus fertilizer at first it wasn't doing much and then I guess when it got comfortable in the new container and took off it's got a lot of fruit but I don't have a lot of confidence that the fruit or going to come in size there's a lot of blossoms a lot of fruit what will cause a tree that's got a lot of Blossom with a lot of fruit could not have the fruit develop fully please and thank you
hi Mark, i am planting oranges for immature fruits in medicinal use. Any suggestions to make small fruits to drop all at a time for fast harvesting. Thank you!
I sprayed some essential oil mixed with Dawn dish detergent on my pear tree and a whole bunch of little baby bud pears fell off. I was trying to get rid of the ants and detour squirrels. I hope I didn't upset my pear tree! She's still got a tremendous amount of pear buds left so maybe it was because of too much fruit.
I just bought a 5 foot satsuma tree from my nursery it’s my first one I would like to be successful at it I just put a pound of fertilizer around it watered it down real well but it’s in a 20 gallon bucket
I think there are some other reasons too. One being the tree is still too young like first year fruit. The other is do not fertilize during the flowering period. All the flowers will drop together with the young fruits that are developing. I am talking from my experience.
Mark... What about Paw Paw top die-out? It seems that only a few sap-sucking green shield bugs are infecting the trees but are causing significant to lethal damage. Leaves are stunted. They die and fall off early. Fruit stops setting. It's a disaster!! I have tried white oil, pyrethrum and chili sprays. Doesn't stop the die-off. Before I made the bug connection, I thought it was a fungus infection and used mancozeb and wettable sulphur to no avail. This is a BIG problem in Central and Northern Qld. No one seems to know what to do. Do you have any insights? Big fan of yours BTW.
Mate that seems nasty... You may have to give your trees a break so they can recover fully and to do this I recommend insect netting and exclude everything for several months until the trees are back flourishing then remove the netting and if the bugs return treat with pyrethrum/pest oil mix 20mils pyrethrum + 20mils pest oil per one litre water. With the trees being stronger they should tolerate the odd bugs that persist better and hopefully keep growing well. All the best :)
@@Selfsufficientme Thanks Mark. I have some other trees in various stages. They all seem to get hammered from time to time, drop their flowers and grow stunted leaves for 50-75 mm of growth. Then they recover and begin to grow full size leaves and fruit again. But, when this happens in really dry summer weather the trees succumb and the whole top rots off, followed a few weeks later by the roots. It seems the combo of heat stress (I water with a moisture meter) and the latest raid by the shield bug special force sap suckers does the job. Good practical and safe bug control advice BTW. Thanks, Shane.
Hi Mark, I have a grafted Cherry 🍒 tree here in the UK, the tree is in a large pot and gets enough water / no pest on it, everything is looking good but over the last few days it has been dropping cherries. We have had a number of days of rain 🌧 and was wondering if this could be the cause ❓
Same problem here, UK, Stella cherry tree, for years it gave many cherries, last year it dropped most of them, this year? Almost nothing left in the tree and it keeps dropping the fruits. Any idea please?
have a Tanger. variety Michael. It's growing eight years. Every spring it flowers ,& the young fruit fall. There's a Internado lemon to one side,& a Mexican lime to the other so I can't blame pollen X. No normal natural fruit thinning here. I hear there's some kind of spay to correct this? Harmon? Any ideas.
Any one knows why my quince drops all fruit in august First 3 years we had a lot of fruit Last 3 years , the tree is full of fruit. Then august within a week all down sort of rotten fruit What can I do. ? Don’t see any pests. And water and nutrition is at a plenty I line in london England ( and before anybody says the climate… it grows here big time , seen it on clients houses plenty of them ) Thank you
Sir My Dates Tree drops All The Flowers Before Growing Into Dates. This is happeing from 3 years Please Tell why Is This Happeing Why The Dates Flowers Are not Converted into Dates Thanks And Waiting For Your Reply
Yes temp change, especially unexpected, can induce fruit drop (a frost can be devastating) - great point! Animal manure around fruit trees is probably the best fertiliser IMHO and this was confirmed for me on a recent trip to Sorrento (famous for lemons) where I saw first-hand farmers using manure around their trees check out this vid ua-cam.com/video/cVd-dKBcA30/v-deo.html I also use a lot of poultry manure and swear by it in the garden it's not only good it's also free! Cheers :)
I live in the US and in an area where I can not grow citrus trees but we grow many other trees such as cherry, pear,apple apricot etc. I guess my question should have been "can I put manure on these trees"? I don't know if you are able to grow any of these trees . Do you have any thoughts about putting manure on pear or cherry trees?
Thanks our Cara Cara orange tree puts out hundreds and hundreds of blossoms then they start to turn into the tiny green oranges, about 1/4 inch, some make it to about 1/2 inch, then they start dropping. What am I doing wrong.
My two Kumquat trees have this problem. I tried different amounts of irrigation and fertilization and always got the same thing: The fruits are plentiful and grow well, then suddenly they begin dropping, turning yellow before maturing. They cannot be stored because they rot easily, but usually can be eaten if freshly collected. I noticed most dropped fruits have no seeds in them (Aborted seedless fruit?). The outcame is the same, regardless of added fertilizer. (I add humus as a basis, and supplement it with slow-release pellets). All other citrus trees (Lemon, Calamondin) go through maturity without such problem.
I’ve come to realize nature is always right and I think that probably dropping a group that has pests On the ground is probably the best even though most garden channels will say get it out of the garden… I’m just thinking because that’s how mother nature does it and I’m thinking why… And I’m thinking it will attract pests to that rotting fruit and leave the ones on the tree alone
Yes compost or let it rot under the tree for fertiliser. I know there's lots of information out there that advises removing all fallen fruit due to possible disease and pest encouragement but I reckon the benefits of leaving the fruit rot down outweigh the negs. Of course, if the tree is near the home etc or is attracting unwanted wild animals then it would be prudent to compost the fruit sure. Cheers :)
I have large 20 yr old avocado only produces about 3 avocados because after it flowers the tiny avovado like half inch big falls off . They almost all fall of. No one can tell me why.
I love this channel. Great information always
Thank you very much! :)
Great tips, my friend. This happened to my young orange tree in the last 2 years. One year I had one orange that made it to the end. Last year, there was 3 and this year about 30 plus. I fed the tree and water it more. Happy days ahead :)
Great to hear Mary! It's such satisfaction when you solve a gardening issue and make a tree productive again. Cheers :)
I had just looked up how to help fruit drop and stumbled back upon this. Cheers to run into you again on my planting journey 🎉 I have a grown white peach dropping peaches early that I’m trying to help. My mom just passed and I’ve taken over her garden so I’ll be back for more help
Mark, even your old vids are gold! I have a 4-year-old fig tree that has been setting tons of fruit twice per year, then consistently aborting them.
I was planning to rip it out, but I'm determined to give it a bunch of lovin and see how it goes.
I have spent 20 mins and multiple videos trying to figure out why my peach trees dropped the fruit/buds. I see it was a lack of water. I have to figure out how much water I need to give them at each watering. I initially though I was giving them to much water as I saw the leaves a bit yellow now they are shriveled a bit. I have to find a balance. Thank you for this video!!
Thank you for a short sweet video, straight to the point.
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Well done, best way to explain, thanks for a very short and sweet video.
Good evening, great video. Here in the U.S. we have a pear tree that has like white patchy fungus growing on it. Since it's our 1st fruit tree unsure of treatment and correct nutrition for it. I've searched internet unable to find the information I need. Over the last 6 years we've had abundant fruit, to almost none. Fluctuates from year to year. Today I noticed she doing prematurely. We have had enough rain, don't see pests... would absolutely love knowledgeable help. Much thanks.
*Blossom and fruit dropping happens when trees/plant go into self survival mode. One reason is when the plant is constantly getting too much direct sunlight for its photosynthesis needs. To convert all that energy its getting it’s gonna drop blossoms/fruits so it can use all the stored energy to start new blooms. What I do is make sure my plants are only getting morning to noon direct sunlight and shade (indirect sunlight) during the rest of the day.*
I think this might be my issue too. I initially thought I was overwatering, but I live in Florida with SCORCHING sun and heat that has fried the blossoms within 24 hours. The fruit drop has been consistent, so I just brought it inside. Crossing my fingers and hoping for the best!
My star fruits just drop fruits. This is the third flowering and they all gone.Its rain daily and the area is well composted.
Will definitely try it and see if my lime tree will stop dropping it’s fruit.
Excellent video Mark. Would you recommend placing cow mure, mulch around fruit tree. Looking forward to your reply Thanks mate.
Helpful. What can be done with the immature peaches that has dropped from my tree? Just seems like a huge waste to just throw away. Thanks
This video was great. It was exactly what I wanted to know and explained very well.
good day to you Mark !! 👍👍😁😁 Thanks for sharing your thoughts, knowledge and experiences with us all today on how to stop fruit drop on your fruit trees 😁😁👍👍
Thanks mate :)
My grandpa has a guava tree and it’s dumping a lot of guava that aren’t full grown, they’re pretty small but still sweet, I think it’s probably a combination of not enough water and over producing issues. But we just had some heavy rain so hopefully it helps the rest to mature
Thumbs up Mark! Good observation & advice given. Much appreciated.
Thanks Tim! :)
Great info and now i know why.......imperial mandarin has dropped 4 fruit as they turning orange.(in pot).....so i have fed slow release troforte ....put some mulch on it and will water more frequently.....thanks......your vids are always great.
Thank you sir. But my question is regarding my apple premature yellowing and drop. What to do now plz mention.
Soil testing shows the increase level of potassium, remaining all sets normal.
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My tiny fruit are drying up and drop but the others seem to be ok, why only the tiny ones drop🤔🤔🤔🤔thank you so...so...much for these awesome videos🥰 I'm in the Tx area.
Hello Mark, I am in Melbourne. We have two orange trees. Last year we had hundreds of oranges that were just amazing. After harvesting the fruit in August 2017, we put bush mulch on the garden including over the orange trees. We also pruned a wattle tree that is right next to the orange trees (at least, the tree pruner did). I was careful to feed with citrus feed, and water, and added spent coffee grounds from the cafe in case the raw bush mulch was drawing nitrogen from the soil. Anyway in September both trees were covered in blossom, with hoards of bees buzzing around and eventually many small fruit set. However we had a blast of hot windy weather in November/December and even though I hosed the ground under the trees constantly, most of the fruits except about five, dropped. I was sooooooooooooooo upset! Over the next few weeks, all remaining fruit dropped. Meanwhile the leaves looked amazing. So I pruned the trees heavily, hoping to get the trees to bloom and fruit again. However that has not happened. Why do you think the fruit dropped? Can unseasonal hot windy weather have such an effect when the fruit are only currant size? What about the bush mulch? Any thoughts?
Yep you nailed it alright! The hot blast must have affected the fruit set and growth. I doubt that the mulch had anything to do with it. This is part of gardening we've experienced so many disappointments and that's why every great harvest is always a blessing and met with excitement because the fickleness of nature can sometimes be cruel. The positive is your trees should have plenty of stored energy for next season. All the best :)
Thanks Mark. Yes gardening has its disappointments, for sure. We still have around ten mandarins on a four year old mandarin tree. That tree did not produce so many fruit initially so it probably didn't get as stressed by the hot spell. Perhaps I should thin the tiny currant size orange fruit manually this spring before any hot weather can attack? Also the trees keep growing water shoots and I keep rubbing them off. Do you think I should just leave it all to grow however it wants now or keep trying to maintain an open tree frame?
Ok here we go! Blossoms are forming on our two orange trees again. We had the nearby wattle tree removed a few months ago and there is only a small layer of mulch (bush mulch) left around the tree as most has been composted down over winter. I have been keeping the ground under the trees well-watered. I am hoping that there will be plentiful blossoms on both trees and plenty of bees. I am then hoping to keep most of the fruit. I think I will need guidance. I haven't got a windbreak if we get a crazy hot wind in November/December again. I am worried we will have all the fruit drop again. I will keep you posted. Any help you can give will be appreciated! I sprinkled on the Neutrog citrus feeder product a month ago. Anything else I can do at this point?
Update Sept 15: We had wind and storms today. The buds are still there. I erected some shadecloth at the end of a wind tunnel that led up to the two orange trees to cut down on some of the wind and spread a tarp under one of the trees to stop rain from flooding the soil. Further updates to come.
Here we go again with a very hot spell in Melbourne again but we still have some oranges (not a huge amount) left on our two trees, so I keep watering and scattering more citrus food over the soil underneath the tree. I put shade cloth over one tree but the other tree seems to have done better than the tree with the shade cloth. Also the tree that was not pruned last summer has more fruit than the tree that was pruned. There are a lot of leaves on the unpruned tree and they seem to be shielding the fruit from the harsh weather.
I watered zealously over our recent heatwave and I still have plenty of oranges on the two trees. They are around 4 inches in diameter and still green. Fingers crossed!
My plum tree (London UK) every year has huge fruits but as it grow Cherry size all the fruit drops
Any advise please? Which fertiliser I should use?
Dear Mark,
We don't have these kind of plants in Holland, I wish I could have such plants in my garden, but due to the climate we have here, it is impossible to grow citrus plants, but anyway, what an explanation. Thank you for your explanation that you want to share with other people. Viva Australia.👌👌👍👍👍
I discovered a tiny black bird with long beak was the cause in my fruit drop in my unidentified stone fruit tree (Adelaide Australia). Lost all of them last season. Since I've used physical deterrents in the form of plastic milk bottles painted with large black eyes and a red ring around each - no birds ravaging my stone fruits. By the way I grew these trees from seed purchased the fruit in Woolworths. Have no idea what they are. Have slight fur like peach but not as much fur. Taste like apricot but not the same. Are yellow in colour. Large like peach when they ripen. Not overly juicy. Have long four inch hard fruit bearing thorns. They harden up an spike the unwary. Huge round almost heart shaped leaves with reddish stalks when growing and tiny red serrations on edge of leaves. Long reach branches. Rapid growth in Spring. Very tall very fast. Not affected by leaf curl. Whitish spotted dark bark. Any ideas?
Sounds like a queen peach to me!!
Do you have any videos on fermentation process, and preservation of jams and such?
Im leasing a home with a peach tree in back yard. The tree has been totally neglected! I don't know why someone would own a home with a peach tree if they were not going to take care of it. But that aside, we have been here three years, and this year is the first season to even have decent peaches (almost decent). There are, what looks like bruses all over the peaches, still on the tree. It has not been taken care of in any way. We are in California San Juaquin Valley-very hot summers. What we have picked taste okay, not real sweet, but eatable.
Can you tell me what the "bruse spots" are, and should we eat them...
Thank you for your program, I have gain so much from it.
Great advice to keep in mind when my orchard finally starts producing fruit. :)
It'll get there! :)
Hi. I have custard apple trees growing. They flower but as soon as the fruit forms the stems turn brown and the fruit falls off. How do I remedy this?
Which type of trace elements we can apply to control the fruits dropping in oranges?
Great presentation. My apricot tree produced wonderful fruit 1 st year, second year the fruit was turning orange colour and now it has rot in the fruit. It also didn’t produce as much fruit this year compared to last year. Any tips ?
Advanced congratulations for becoming 1 Million sir
Thank you so much you answered my questions beautifully problem solved looking forward to enjoying my first crop of oranges in Perth Australia
Thank you! What happens when lemons start rotting from the bottom???
My father planted an apple tree in our yard many years ago...it used to produce beautiful fruit when he tended it.He had a paralyzing stroke 8 years ago.He passed away last year. I don't know what he used .The fruit looks terrible with deformities. What can I do organically to to fix it?😊
Yep. This definitely helps.
Thank you for sharing your wisdom buddy
Thanks mate :)
Good day! sir one of my 1 year old lemon tree dropped all its fruit and leaves i think because of over fertilizing or our climate its raining almost daily but my 79 other trees are normal
Thank you for this knowledge
Hi have a lemon tree in a pot and it's getting too big now can I bury it into the ground now outside I live in the UK will it survive the winter outside
This really helped me!! Much appreciated
Thanks mate. Very helpful.
Yes! Thank you!!
Hi Mark...i am having the same problem as last year...i have a hickson mandarin in the ground with reasonable amount of fruit on it and i have my imperial mandarin in 50 litre pot with about 10 fruits on it...some fruits are a good size but both trees are dropping fruit which are just starting to turn orange.....so frustrating...they dont mature and go ripe....both trees are a good size......we have been getting some good rain now but its the small ones that seem to be dropping one by one......each day....any ideas mate?
Hopefully I can help0 my avocado tree because we live in the South end of the San Joaquin Valley in California and we are in the middle of another draught in 6/27/21.
Question: My orange tree, in a container, gradually dropped all of its fruit. I fertilized it every quarter (minus the winter season), the leaves are vibrantly green and perk up towards the ceiling. It gets at least 7 hours of sun. My guess is lack of water since I brought it inside, and I heard overwatering is a problem with indoor plants. The last 5 oranges dropped 2 months after I brought the tree inside...and I water it every 2 to 3 weeks. Do you think it may be due to under watering?
Do you sell
Or ship any of your citrus trees at all??
Thank you for sharing this information. 👍
thanks for this- I have an almond tree that only had one fruit/nut developing but it dropped it, I will follow your advice + hope for more next season as it is only a young tree. G'day
Older folks around here used to take rusted iron nails & pound them into tree trunks of trees that wouldn't or couldn't hold fruit till harvesting. Next year it worked well. Guess that goes to that mineral deficiency you were talking about.
Edie Boudreau interesting
I swear how did they come up with this stuff.....wisdom of the ancients i tell ya
Great tip Edie! Thank you for sharing it :)
another one to remember is using copper nails nailed into tree's susceptible to 'curly leaf' such as peach and nectarines. when we were growing up we had peach and nectarine tree's in our backyard that got a bad dose of curly leaf one year. my dad, having grown up on and orchard/ market garden knew of and old trick to use copper nails to get rid of it. after he did that we never had a problem with it again.
catey62 -- this us the type of knowledge that gets lost if we don't share it. WE might not know why it works but if it didn't work all those centuries of farmers wouldn't have done it anymore as farmers DON'T HAVE TIME to WASTE on something that doesn't work. Thanks for more info!!
We have had a mandarin orange (tangerine) fruit tree here in So California for the last ten years. We lose fruit on the tree if we get bad storm with a lot of wind after the fruit has set. This particular tree has always had a fruit drop issue, unlike our other citrus trees.
I'm pruning back my avocado tree at the beginning of the rainy season (June) in hopes of a more abundant harvest next year. I've carried 100 gallons of water a day since January for my 10 year old tree. Lots of compost helps but I'm worn down. The dry season is a struggle. Smaller trees need less water. Hope this works:)
great info- thanks a lot
Super useful info! Thank you! 💖
Thanks Chelsea! :)
Why my oranges are not rippening , they are green from last one month or more. Pls suggest the remedy for its rippening
Thanks.. Very nice advice 🙂🙂🙂🙂
Is it possible to plant citrus trees in the ground and then during the winter take them out put them inside I live in zone 7
Thank uncle
Mines didnt produce pears this year lots of black buds fell from it
One of the most affable gardner on YT. Love all yoir videos and demeanor. Thanks for sharing 🙏
Mark, do you put bags around clumps of fruit? I know that a lot of banana and pawpaw farmers do it to help protect fruit from pests and to organise harvesting time.
Yes, I do protect our bananas and mangoes and several other fruits with bagging or netting - it's a must. However, I don't bag or net any of our citrus because they don't get targeted as much and we grow so many that losing some fruit to animals doesn't matter. Cheers :)
my lime is not juicy and have thick skin what kind of fertilizer should i use
Thank you for this informative and very useful video.
Thank you Ibraheem! All the best :)
Love and kisses from the Philippines ❤️🇵🇭.
Very informative
Than you for your video does these information apply to pomegranate tree it doesn’t flower much I mean only very few and then they don’t make it to fruit I add fertiliser and compost water regularly it’s very green and looks healthy same thing with my avocado tree l would appreciated if u can help thank you
Thumbs up from me too. Useful, clear and organic. Thanks!
Our peach tree had blossoms but no fruit. Any ideas?
Very educational - thanks!
Hi thanks for the videos it is informative and very helpful. just a question my lime tree has lots of small tiny black round thingy on the branches. I've tried to remove it by hand and spray with dish washing liquid gailic and cooking oil along with soda bicarbonate, what it does was all the leaves drop after a few days and by it gave a bad itch. Can you please guide me what to do because the year before I think had around 500 fruits and it fruit all year round but since disease arrive hardly had any.
Nice information
I have a major fruit fall issue with my 7 years old pomegranate tree. Last year only One fruit got fully ripped out of 12 growing ones. Then this year we had more that 30 beautiful blooms and minimally developing fruits, ALL felt! Controversial to what you say here, I was told may be the cause is Too Much water, though I tried to minimally water this year. I am clueless and tree has no pest, all healthy leaves, was trimmed moderately in late winter (So California winters are equal of spring anywhere else) then had a minimal chemical fertilizer this year, natural fertilizer last year. Tree is planted on the southern side of property near house wall so plenty of sun and natural heater at night in temperate climate zone of southern California. PLEASE HELP.
I've got a lemon tree that I put in a plastic 55-gallon drum that I cut in half that's a decent soil in there I have citrus fertilizer at first it wasn't doing much and then I guess when it got comfortable in the new container and took off it's got a lot of fruit but I don't have a lot of confidence that the fruit or going to come in size there's a lot of blossoms a lot of fruit what will cause a tree that's got a lot of Blossom with a lot of fruit could not have the fruit develop fully please and thank you
hi Mark, i am planting oranges for immature fruits in medicinal use. Any suggestions to make small fruits to drop all at a time for fast harvesting. Thank you!
I sprayed some essential oil mixed with Dawn dish detergent on my pear tree and a whole bunch of little baby bud pears fell off. I was trying to get rid of the ants and detour squirrels. I hope I didn't upset my pear tree! She's still got a tremendous amount of pear buds left so maybe it was because of too much fruit.
Hi mark do u have persimmon tree ? I have one and every year the flower just drop off How much water persimmon tree need I’m from qld
wish i could grow fruit where i live, especially citrus. Great video Mark.
you can, under a growlight.
I live in Norway, i grow my citrus tree in my basement
Thank you mark
I just bought a 5 foot satsuma tree from my nursery it’s my first one I would like to be successful at it I just put a pound of fertilizer around it watered it down real well but it’s in a 20 gallon bucket
I think there are some other reasons too. One being the tree is still too young like first year fruit. The other is do not fertilize during the flowering period. All the flowers will drop together with the young fruits that are developing. I am talking from my experience.
What about a pawpaw that falls off seeds
Does this include no seaweed liquard?
Mark... What about Paw Paw top die-out?
It seems that only a few sap-sucking green shield bugs are infecting the trees but are causing significant to lethal damage.
Leaves are stunted. They die and fall off early. Fruit stops setting. It's a disaster!!
I have tried white oil, pyrethrum and chili sprays. Doesn't stop the die-off.
Before I made the bug connection, I thought it was a fungus infection and used mancozeb and wettable sulphur to no avail.
This is a BIG problem in Central and Northern Qld. No one seems to know what to do. Do you have any insights?
Big fan of yours BTW.
Mate that seems nasty... You may have to give your trees a break so they can recover fully and to do this I recommend insect netting and exclude everything for several months until the trees are back flourishing then remove the netting and if the bugs return treat with pyrethrum/pest oil mix 20mils pyrethrum + 20mils pest oil per one litre water. With the trees being stronger they should tolerate the odd bugs that persist better and hopefully keep growing well. All the best :)
@@Selfsufficientme Thanks Mark. I have some other trees in various stages. They all seem to get hammered from time to time, drop their flowers and grow stunted leaves for 50-75 mm of growth. Then they recover and begin to grow full size leaves and fruit again. But, when this happens in really dry summer weather the trees succumb and the whole top rots off, followed a few weeks later by the roots. It seems the combo of heat stress (I water with a moisture meter) and the latest raid by the shield bug special force sap suckers does the job. Good practical and safe bug control advice BTW. Thanks, Shane.
Interesting....! Thank you information
Hi Mark, I have a grafted Cherry 🍒 tree here in the UK, the tree is in a large pot and gets enough water / no pest on it, everything is looking good but over the last few days it has been dropping cherries.
We have had a number of days of rain 🌧 and was wondering if this could be the cause ❓
Same problem here, UK, Stella cherry tree, for years it gave many cherries, last year it dropped most of them, this year? Almost nothing left in the tree and it keeps dropping the fruits. Any idea please?
have a Tanger. variety Michael. It's growing eight years. Every spring it flowers ,& the young fruit fall. There's a Internado lemon to one side,& a Mexican lime to the other so I can't blame pollen X. No normal natural fruit thinning here. I hear there's some kind of spay to correct this? Harmon? Any ideas.
so should i take all the fruit off when it goes back to bloom?
Any one knows why my quince drops all fruit in august
First 3 years we had a lot of fruit
Last 3 years , the tree is full of fruit. Then august within a week all down sort of rotten fruit
What can I do. ? Don’t see any pests. And water and nutrition is at a plenty
I line in london England ( and before anybody says the climate… it grows here big time , seen it on clients houses plenty of them )
Thank you
My pear tree dropped a couple pears prematurely I'd like to know if these are edible.
They should be fine if they ripen ok I'd eat them! :)
Sir My Dates Tree drops All The Flowers Before Growing Into Dates.
This is happeing from 3 years
Please Tell why Is This Happeing Why The Dates Flowers Are not Converted into Dates
Thanks
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My tree was full of apricots after the blue, but they all fell off so it's there no fruit I don't understand all the fruit fall off??
What about temperature change? I read not to put animal manure around trees. What is your ideas about that.?
Yes temp change, especially unexpected, can induce fruit drop (a frost can be devastating) - great point! Animal manure around fruit trees is probably the best fertiliser IMHO and this was confirmed for me on a recent trip to Sorrento (famous for lemons) where I saw first-hand farmers using manure around their trees check out this vid ua-cam.com/video/cVd-dKBcA30/v-deo.html I also use a lot of poultry manure and swear by it in the garden it's not only good it's also free! Cheers :)
I live in the US and in an area where I can not grow citrus trees but we grow many other trees such as cherry, pear,apple apricot etc. I guess my question should have been "can I put manure on these trees"? I don't know if you are able to grow any of these trees . Do you have any thoughts about putting manure on pear or cherry trees?
Apply potash or potassium nitrate
Thanks Mark 🤗
Thanks but my fruits fall off during monsoon wen lot of rains are there....
Thanks our Cara Cara orange tree puts out hundreds and hundreds of blossoms then they start to turn into the tiny green oranges, about 1/4 inch, some make it to about 1/2 inch, then they start dropping.
What am I doing wrong.
Thats the time to feed with high nitrogen as part of a balanced fert of npk.
My two Kumquat trees have this problem. I tried different amounts of irrigation and fertilization and always got the same thing: The fruits are plentiful and grow well, then suddenly they begin dropping, turning yellow before maturing. They cannot be stored because they rot easily, but usually can be eaten if freshly collected. I noticed most dropped fruits have no seeds in them (Aborted seedless fruit?). The outcame is the same, regardless of added fertilizer. (I add humus as a basis, and supplement it with slow-release pellets). All other citrus trees (Lemon, Calamondin) go through maturity without such problem.
I’ve come to realize nature is always right and I think that probably dropping a group that has pests On the ground is probably the best even though most garden channels will say get it out of the garden… I’m just thinking because that’s how mother nature does it and I’m thinking why… And I’m thinking it will attract pests to that rotting fruit and leave the ones on the tree alone
Thanks I think my problem is probably lack of water.
What would you do with the fruit that has fallen. Compost it?
Yes compost or let it rot under the tree for fertiliser. I know there's lots of information out there that advises removing all fallen fruit due to possible disease and pest encouragement but I reckon the benefits of leaving the fruit rot down outweigh the negs. Of course, if the tree is near the home etc or is attracting unwanted wild animals then it would be prudent to compost the fruit sure. Cheers :)
Please tell me the trace mineral info
Help me my tree is very old and my cherries and apples always fall on the ground every year. HELP!!!!
I have large 20 yr old avocado only produces about 3 avocados because after it flowers the tiny avovado like half inch big falls off . They almost all fall of. No one can tell me why.
TKS. I'll water more !