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.
VIDEO: 5 Reasons Fruit Trees Aren’t Fruiting or Stopped Fruiting
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.
Because seeds and nursery grown starters have been gmo’d
UVC is cooking them because ozone layer going away
Mmm love fresh fruits. My father used to bury a whole 15-20 lb salmon at the foot of our plum tree every year, to thank and feed it for giving back & the plums would be so plentiful & branches almost breaking. As children and we ate all the bottom fruits, we'd climb the tree and shake the limbs or use long poles to knock them down because we couldn't reach the top of the 20 foot high tree. Not directly at the base, maybe 6 or 8 feet away from the trunk (edge or end of canopy) & I'm guessing, so as not to damage the root system.
My cherry tree died and i don´t know why
all leaves died
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
Where you buy your fruit trees makes a big difference. Big box stores seem to provide inferior fruit trees.
I have a large crabapple that I just planted all my apples around. Should provide ample pollination
Aye I live near Luke and I was wondering about this. Mine are only 1 and 2 years old right now.
Have you checked the calcium/magnesium levels?
Here in Florid we have 2 mango trees and 3 orange trees and 2 banana trees
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 informative! I was beginning to wonder about my old apple tree. Thanks 🙂
Amazing how plants adapt . Good info.
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?
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! 😀
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?
Doesn't the red bud tree supply nitrogen to the soil? Aren't there companion planting with fruit trees also?
Will you be showing how to properly prune an apple tree? I have an espalier apple tree.
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.
Well he's attractive..
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?
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.
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 ??
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.
Only fruit tree i can grow successfully is pears , all the rest have too many pests and diseases in my area ,they are a challenge but fun I love pruning them
Thought some trees r self pollination.. or bees do it?