4 Reasons Why Your Fruit Tree is Not Producing Fruit
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- 4 Reasons Why Your Fruit Tree is Not Producing Fruit.
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I'm very glad you didn't have any background music, those birds sweetly singing in the background is all the music that's needed.
I second that
Good point. I love the sounds of nature
No fruit on my apricot or fruit tree, had fruit in the past
That’s true!
I will have to make sure I don’t drown out natural sweet sounds like that in my vids - thanks for pointing that out!!! 🙌🏽
I thought i planted a apple tree, turns out its actually a oak. Been waiting for apples for 10 years now...........
same 🤣
Oml that's something I'd do🤣
From Lil Giant That is hilarious! That will teach you to be patient. Ya’ know even if you planted that tree from seed, it should have yielded fruit within seven years.If you ordered tree from a nursery, I AM TOLD it should fruit the first year or sometimes the next. Better luck next time!! LOL
@@henryvalero9235 Thanks Sir
Oh well, at least you might get some 'oak apples'
The smell of an apple blossom is so mild you might not notice it from a single tree.
But stand in an orchard and breath deep, a most amazing scent.
When planting fruit trees don't expect fruit for 5 years. You'll get a couple before the 5 year mark. 1st year in ground, tree should flower and fruit a little if planted in spring( plant is establishingitselfin new home, 2nd year, tree focuses on rooting so you don't get many fruit( sometimes no fruit)
3rd year tree focuses on stretching out to find more light,
4th year tree will be flourishing and looking great but you still might get alot of fruit but by the 5th year, mostly all fruit trees will have an abundance of food. Be patient and garden with love. Keep it organic and don't think to hard. Think natural and guid the plant life to flourish
My father was an orchardist for 70 years, he used to prune a heavily flowered branch or two and place them in a bucket under the tree for his trees in an outside row. It helped a lot, bees did those buckets too, and pollinated the blossoms above.
Thanks for the tip Maureen. Yup an old technique that deserves to be known.
That is awesome! My neighbor has been wondering what to do because the other neighbor with an apple tree cut his down. I will make that suggestions :)
WOW!...this idea of your father's is brilliant!!...tqtq for sharing 💖💝
I don't understand you very clearly. You mean your father put a heavily bloomed flower branch pruned on the tree that you want to make it pollinated?
Qing Peng he would cut a heavy flowered branch off a different variety of cherry, place it in a bucket of water and set the bucket under the tree he wanted to pollinate. His outside rows usually, because there were only cherry trees on 3 sides and the outside sometimes just did not have the density of fruit the others had.
And he even knows the birds singing around him. So much knowledge here... Thank you so much Stefan!
You're a very good teacher. Entertaining, and you can tell you're passionate about what you're teaching. Excellent video, thank you!
Nate
I have a cherry tree I planted probably 12 years ago. Never had any fruit until last year. All the sudden it was loaded with cherries. Its the only one I have. I guess someone not to far away must have a Cherry tree also.
Unless it's grafted as my cherry tree which is only 3 years old gives me fruit
Or maybe someone got a peach tree near by!
Mine also didn't give fruit for many years. I know there's another cherry tree but it's one block away so the bees didn't visit both of them. So this year I get cotton stick, go to my around the block cherry tree, manually message my cotton to their flower, bring back to my home then message my cotton to my flower, then WALLA , it is finally did the trick !
@@MrKiet76 no it states on the label self pollinating.
@@stephenboyd4934 even if self pollinating variety, another variety will greatly improve your crop.
THANK you for this video. The warblers were a beautiful accompaniment to your enthusiastic on-site teaching. I learned so much on details I hadn't heard before, especially "same species and/but different cultivars/varieties". This made sense along the scope of diversity. I liked the observation you pointed out regarding king blossoms and the others availing to full flowerage later to maximize a possibility for pollination.
we are just getting started with fruit trees, and you sir, are a priceless treasure of wisdom. thank you...
I'm going to add a fifth very common reason why fruit trees don't produce here in the Deep South (South Georgia for me). Sometimes you just don't get enough chilling hours (temps between 32F and 45F) during the dormant season for the variety. I grow pear and plum trees. I've had to top work many of the varieties I've tried simply because we don't get enough chilling hours for them.
Very true
I just love your straightforward explanation of all the problems we have in our gardens.
Especially the Ants and Aphids!
Many thanks from UK.
I learned a lot ,I had one apple tree from seed and it must have gotten pollinated from another tree in my neighborhood. Thank you for this info.I live in zone 9.
Thanks for the info., I grow a lot of stuff but have plenty left to learn.
Great video! Answered a lot of questions that I had :)
The most sensible explanation I have ever come across. Thank you very much.
Stefan, you are a wealth of knowledge and we so appreciate you! Thank you for these amazing videos! Mom of 5 from Nova Scotia
Thank you so much Stefan! ❤
I learn so much, I'll be prepared whenever. :)
Wow, great information! A year and a half ago I finally found a supplier of a Snow Apple Tree. I had thought they were extinct, and Snow apples were my hands down favorite as a child. I went to buy one, but they were so inexpensive, I just had to get two. Given your information, I’m so glad I did. I got my first crop this year, and am enjoying a small but fabulously tasting crop of Snow Apples (also called Fameuse).
Ever try opals? Ooh so good golden yellow
Trees of Antiquity I think has that apple.
@@fucku3460I tasted Opal. They are really good.
This is the BEST explanation I’ve heard; and I’ve watched a lot of videos!! Thank you for teaching us all. 💕
Glad you learned something.
Thanks from Northeast Tennessee, home of many great Apple varieties, for the great program.
I appreciate your teachings. I will finally get a house with a backyard this year and I want to plant several fruit trees. Now I see I have to educate myself better.
Your way of speaking is beautiful.
absolutely! First thing I thought when started watching was: "Oh, how much I would love English classes in my school when he was my English teacher" :)
Also frost damage to the blossom and also using a Triploid to pollinate another apple. Blossom weevil can also reek mayhem in a small orchard.
Very interesting Stefan, thank you. I hope you have a good 2020!
Thanks, all the best 2020 for you too.
WoW! I'm seeing 2020!
Thank you for this very informative video! A couple of years ago, a family friend snuck into our backyard and planted 3 fruit trees for us. We don't even know what kind they are! One is a type of peach but we don't know what the other two are lol they haven't given any successful fruits and now I know why!
Sound advice. Im glad to see Im doing this right.
Your enthusiasm is cute. 🥳
very good! both in presentation and content.
I'm growing mangos and avocados both of which self pollinate. But this guy is a hoot and put a big smile on my face. Thank you for your contribution Stefan. Let me know if you can help me with my mangos.
Loved the ending, its nice to see somebody else do the exact same thing when having tongue-in-cheek,
or when the pronunciation just wont.
Cheers mate great explanation Really Helped.
You have a beautiful, practical way of teaching. I learned so much from this video.
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ROCK ON DR. SOB!!!!!! YOU ARE THE REASON THAT WE STARTED A PERMACULTURE ORCHARD!!!!! YOU JUST SHOULD HAVE TOLD US TO NOT START ONE DURING THE YEAR OF THE SECADAS!!! THANKS FOR EVERYTHING!!!! NOW WE'RE BROKE!!!!!
Cicadas. We don’t have epidemics of them here. Now you have 17 years to get the orchard going before the next mass hatching.
@@StefanSobkowiak YOU ARE ABSOLUTELY CORRECT!!!! OPTIMISM IS THE KEY!!!!! I STILL HAVE ONE PEAR LEFT!!!! THAT'S ONE MORE THAN LAST YEAR!!!! AND THANKS FOR THE SPELLING CORRECTION ON ZOOKEDAS!!!!!
This helped me so much! A huge thank you to you!!! and I hope you get lots and lots of fruit!!
I bought two peach trees last year having been told that two trees pollinate each other and will increase the yield. Having later learned the two peach trees were different varieties, I was concerned that wouldn't work for pollination. This video assuaged my concerns, and in fact, that is exactly what is needed. I totally lucked out. Thanks!!
hi i have tried peaches but they always get peach leaf curl bordeux mixture helps ( has copper ) good luck with them.
My mom got two peach trees and planted them next to the old well and those bastards are covered in peaches.
I just bought two red delicious trees, so we'll see.
Most peach trees are all self fertile anyway. That's something missed in this video.
Tart cherries are usually self fertile. Also certain apple varieties. And some apples shoot blanks (not able to pollinate other apples).
@@mikebetts2046 all fruit trees are self fertile each other flower is a male an a female an they’re pollinated by the WIND! Not by the Bees
@@amidark6518those bastards are covered in peaches?! Congratulations.
I have a cherry tree, label said it was red cherries and I kept waiting for the white fruit to ripen. Took me a couple of years to figure this out. In the meantime the native birds scoffed the cherries and passed the stones in several places. These trees grew and are now pollinated by different native birds that eat nectar. I just call them the birds cherries and buy my cherries from the supermarket.
Thank you very much..It is very helpful & interesting..!!!
Haha the end was worth waiting for. Love the comforting demeanor. Beautiful trees. Regards from India
A really good technique to pollinate in your plants is to play EXTREMELY Loud music to them preferably classical with high octave notes this vibrates the pollen and helps pollinate flowers that have have the ability to pollinate themselves on the same flower.
Failing that you could get a couple of Q-Tips or earbuds depending on where you are and collect the pollen from other apple trees close or miles away and use those same Q-Tips to to rub over your flowers.
I use art paint brushes.
Thank you for sharing, lovely Now I have learned. I have one orange tree on my pot .3years runn8ng has flowers just fell off . I was worried and I prunes the branches after flowering this year... yes maybe far away another trees.
I never knew about the king blossom. Fascinating!!!
Thanks. Great video!
I have an apricot that only makes about a dozen blossoms per year. I do prune the tree by making a flat top on it and thinning out the branches. I don't clip the fruiting spurs because I figure they will die off on their own and then get replaced. Maybe a blight is killing the blossoms.
Best info I ever heard learned why no fruit
Thanks
You're welcome Mary. I will actually do an update since there are several less common reasons why your tree is not producing. Stay tuned.
you are a delight to listen to, nice presentation
Thank you ! A wealth of information !
Years ago, in my area (East Tennessee), there were so many bees that around my fruit trees there was so much buzzing that it sounded like electric motors running. Now, because of Colony Collapse Disorder, things are almost dead quiet. I see very few honeybees anymore. Walking around 12 trees mid afternoon last year when it was about 70F, I only counted about 20 bees. This year so far has been no better and it's very sad to see.
We hope to make an impact in reversing that trend with rediscovering old ways of raising fruit trees in RESPECT of nature.
The bee population is decreasing tremendously as well as the birds . Last week I purchased good quality bird food and the cashier was condescending and actually giving me orders on how NOT TO FEED THEM stating that birds are dying because they would rather eat the seeds than the protein found in worms , I said to her that maybe is not the seeds killing them but the poisonous WEED KILLER THAT INDOCTRINATED PEOPLE KEEP ON PUTTING ON their lawns because everyone was taught by BIG PHARMA to kill the WEEDS because we rather have a beautiful lawn while killing the fauna and beneficial insects and creatures that play an essential role in nature and getting rid of the TRUE MEDICINE growing in our grounds , how convenient right?
Dandelions are amazing “ WEEDS “ that aren’t only a healthy source of food but also great natural medicine and healing for both humans and animals.
Buy some bees and take good care of them
Honey bees are not native to the Americas. Disappointing he didn't mention this but, flies are the main pollinators of fruit trees.
I have about five acres i bought3 years ago. I finally decided that i wanted to pull the trigger on planting a orchard/garden in my back yard. I had to drop like 40trees to get the sun in. I just bought the first lot today. 4 fuji apples and 2 granny green apples. I plan on planting about 40 fruit trees in all. 10 apple 10 pear 10 peach and still deciding on the last kind. I might go with persimmons for the deer.
Thank you for the video and information will look forward to trying! :-)
Wow! I only just saw this video now and frankly with all those beautiful flowers, I wouldn't even mind if my trees didn't fruit! What a heavenly yard!! Great video as well - I leaened a lot!!
Thank you very much!
Informative!
Thank you for sharing your knowledge about fruit trees. I have a few fruit trees and have always wondered why they had fruit or didn't have much fruit from year to year. Thanks.
Thanks for the video. I’m hoping my little pear trees will finally bloom this year
This is my first time viewing one of your videos. You're very easy to listen to. Thank you for the information.
I have a Frankenstein apple tree with four different cultivars grafted together, plus a cherry/apricot/plum tree. I have other cherry and plum trees, but I guess I need an apricot.
I'm a 20 year old guy just getting into fruit gardening and I gotta say...that intro is killer 😂👌🏽. Also thanks for the tips
Glad you start young years to enjoy the fruits
Well done
So very helpful. Thank you!
I have a flower almond tree that never produced anything. Beautifullllllll flowers before any greenage.
I've learned soo much from this video! Thank you so much for the information! 🌸
They just flower and don’t produce.
Thank you Stefan. In the 50s and 60s our Pear, apricot and cherry trees were the only ones and produced well.
I think I trimmed my blackberries too much, they totally stopped producing.
They do have a productive lifespan. If they were planted in the 70s they owe you nothing. Get some new plants.
Blackberries produce fruit on last years shoots. You only want to trim the shoots that have already produced fruit.
When it was too cold one year and no bees out I started pollinating the flowers myself. I loved doing it. Took some time but it was worth it. There was more than you can handle when harvest time came.
How?
Amazing Video. Wow. Bees and Temperature Idea cooler. Really this year 2024🎉 8 and 12 degrees F. critical 😮 one tree...need more. Thank you.Oceanside, San Diego CA 92109. Apples, peach nectarines, orange, lemon olive 😮.
Me too with small brush painter artist. I wonder how much Wind is a. Factor of INFLUENCE too for pollination? Spring seems to be heavier wind or high hilltop EXPOSURES with ruthless WINDS to knock flowers off. Less Exposure vs Sheltered area among buildings for nectarines. My apple blossoms open in mid may begins win bottle brush tree competing. Bees like the the red somehow preferred. Also US geological map can show how soils differ adobe vs. Former farm or cow lands- inland or fertile damp moist CULTURE and Soils as. Carlsbad, Oceanside or Pacific beach CA. Thank you JOE. you got me wound up on this 🎉 great topic. Also ficus and fig tree cultivar near and natural manures fertilizer 2 year mulched leaves, vege food scraps to influence soil aeration and works to free. Your soils are hungry for life beneath as your trees are loving for mixing and spading. Soils so different From MA Norfolk county to ohio river silts and flooding Cincinanati Oh, Covington Ky seasonal. To Bellingham Lynden Washingon and volcanic soils. ❤😂. Rex H. Thank you so much Joe the Orchardist. Where are you in USA? 😢
Thank you very much for sharing the information. I have two apple trees of the same cultivar. Last year I didn't have any apples like previous years, due to heavy pruning to stop the trees going over the fence to the neighbor's property. This year, I see the trees start giving flowers and hope will have plenty of apples this season :- ) I am here in Toronto, Canada.
Wonderful!
Thank you for this video. I’m so happy I found this.
You are quite awesome and very different indeed, you also have a philosophical demeanor. Your insight to the Law of Nature is very hel[ful. As we say, Namaste, in India, it is more than just a mere hello or goodbye, the word connotes deep respect.
🙏 Namaste to you too.
Great insights here, particularly about bees or their absence, and ditto to all the comments below about suitable cross-pollinators flowering at more or less the same time, as well as self-fertile varieties e.g. of cherries and apricots. One thing worth bearing in mind in order not to be intimidated by horticultural jargon: "Culti-var" is an artificial word made up from two - "cultivated" and "variety", so it just means a variety (i.e. of a species) in cultivation, as distinct from something found in the wild.
Well Tom if you want to get technical there is a difference between a cultivar and a variety. I get my definition from Michael Dirr (Manual of landscape woody plants). He defines variety as 'a plant that varies from the species in one or more traits that are visible or invisible (like hardiness) and that can be reproduced by seed'. While a cultivar you are correct is a cultivated variety and he defines it as 'a plant that varies from the species in one or more traits that are visible or invisible and that can ONLY BE REPRODUCED with those traits VEGETATIVELY' (ie, cuttings, graft,...). Since almost all our fruit trees can only be reproduced vegetatively they are cultivars. Hey I'm ok with people calling them varieties I just prefer to be correct for those in the know.
@@StefanSobkowiak Thanks, Stefan, for that nuance. My point was essentially etymological rather than technical. I guess from a logical point of view one could say that all cultivated varieties (cultivars) are varieties, but not all varieties are cultivars, i.e. cultivars are a subset of all varieties, distinguished by human intervention.
Great video as always! Thank you
Thanks for yr video and yr advice about 4 reasons why yr fruit tree is not producing fruit, I love to see yr apple flowers n garden.
Thanks for the info. Is hand pollinating worth a try if the bees aren’t out? Another reason for no fruit is if you get a late frost right when they are blooming, is that correct?
True that’s 5
The year before I had the worst year ever for my fruit trees. During blossom time last year it was freezing that week. I’m pretty sure that’s what did it. They are flowering now and the week looks like great weather. I’m hopeful thanks to you. Thanks
I got a little scared this year because there was a cold snap for a week. Luckily I don’t think it hurt my fruit trees.
That was very helpful! Thanks! 😊
Hi I'm from the Philippines.. your video is so inspiring and so informative.. thanks so much.. God Bless
What a wonderful vid for beginners.
And with a perfect calmly speech... easy to understand .
I know the most for myself ..but this vid is very enjoyable
Greetings from germany
And the sixth reason is the variety you may have planted will not cross-pollinate with the ones you already have. This is critical in a small orchard like mine. I have 4 apples, 3pears, 6 cherries, 3 plums, 2 nectarines, 2 peaches, 2 Asian pears, and a partridge in a pear tree! Oh, and a Robinson crabapple to assist in pollination! And the trees are supposed to be dwarf and are planted on 13 foot centers. I get fruit from the apples, pears, Asian pears and one cherry, so far. The orchard is 13 years old.
Fantastic you started. Yes I will do an update since there are several other less common reasons why your fruit tree is not producing. You hit on one of them.
Man ' ' ' ' your spot on I was not aware of all the conditions you mentioned . .. But very good . .my new tree farm (6) are all paired up right distance and they are young and healthy . . .Thanks .. .
You give some great tips and advice ..you learn something new everyday ...
I have a single lemon tree. It used to grow fruits well. Last few years, it stopped producing fruits. Any obvious reasons? I don't know what changed. I'm in San Francisco in location that always has morning dew.
Interesting. Even in fruits, you need to trees to be able to produce them
Thankyou for your great information ☺️
Thank you so much for sharing your knowledge
Hi. Very interesting video! Talking cherries in the mediterranean: Our cherry tree has crazy blossoms with many active bees and many other cherry trees in the surrounding, yet fruit set is very poor. I was told it does not stay cold enough for long enough. What are your thoughts on this?
Best.
Moritz
Chilling requirement is a possibility some years, especially in plums and cherries. We saw that in the south of France. Thanks for the reminder.
get a low chill tree like stella.
I just picked up 2 cherry trees fromhome depot! Cherry trees (i read) requires 300 to 1600 hours of “freeze temperatures “ to get fruit! Just what i read (im on zone 9b so I GUESS IM FINE)
@@StarmanBuckRogers Well. Here it never freezes. Fruit set looks good this year. I hope I remember to report the outcome in a few months.
Hi! I just discovered your channel and find it fascinating. I do have a problem with one of my fruit trees. I am new to gardening and have a three year old dwarf cherry tree with leaves that tend to fold. It is planted in a place that used to have a maple tree in it. The maple tree died. I was able to get the stump out but, still had a lot of very hard underground root system there and I suspect the cherry tree roots are having a hard time finding their way around them. Is there a way to mitigate the issue without digging up the cherry tree and moving him elsewhere? Sadly I don't have anywhere else to put it. Otherwise, he seems pretty healthy. He still grows - if a bit more slowly than my apple trees do and he even got flowers this year. Thank you so much for any help you can provide.
Actually trees like growing where trees grew. Their roots follow the tunnels left by the previous trees roots as they decay. Curling leaf is probably aphids. Check out my aphids video.
@@StefanSobkowiak You are awesome! Thank you so much! I did watch the aphids video! If peeing is the issue, It may be my neighbor' dog.I will put up a little fencing around the trees to discourage him. :) I will also try to put some anti-aphid plants nearby. :)
It worked! A little fence and some thyme and onions and the leaves have all unfolded on my little cherry tree. thank you so much!
Your videos are awesome! I learn so much!
Very good information that answers why my Santa Rosa dwarf plum tree not giving every year has lots of flowers every year but if get lucky only get about 12 plums and small ones a year sometimes nothing, I planted it like 6 years ago.
Those trails with those flowers is very beautiful
The pollen doesn't necessarily need to be from the same species.
When our fruit trees were flowering without enough bees and insects around, I've used flower and spruce pollen to (over) pollenate them.
I blow the pollen all over the fruit trees using a leaf blower, introducing the pollen into the intake of the leaf blower.
It works amazingly!
This is not possible. It would be like impregnating a chicken with a hamster. Some nearby place had same type of fruit in bloom.
Thanks for your hands-on explanation
Thank you great video I think you helped me save my fruit trees 👍 now I’m pruning the right way
I have a purne plum tree can you tell me how to take care of it to get fruit
I HAVE NOTICED THAT TEA FROM APPLE FLOWERS GIVES ME STAMINA AND SLEEP LIKE A BABY.
That is not the mental picture I get when you use the term "fruit sex" . lol
Ohhh...is that why I caught myself blushing a couple of times in this great video?(tee hee!)
Thank you for the great 👍 information ❤️😺😊👍🐶
That was really helpful.
I just have one apple tree in the yard, now I know why it does NOT produce apple........
Yep - no partner with whom to do fruit sex, am I right? 😂😂😂
I have a Spartan Apple Tree in my backyard and it produces a minimum of 200 lb of fruit every year for the last 20 years. I grafted a Royal Gala in the middle of the tree you can graft more than one variety if you want, this way you don't have to worry about bees or temperature and wind, let gravity do the work. This is why TH-cam gets a bad name.
@@salcaruso240 He does mention grafting, about 1.42
@@ratildahoyden9864 👏👏something like that
Hi love from Multan, Pakistan.
Thank you, this was informative. This spring was chilly and wet, and narey an apple on any of my trees.
Show on Dandelions changed my perspective and outlook... KEEP UP UR GOOD WORKS!!!
Thanks glad to hear it changes outlooks. Your property thanks you as well.
You are such a kind and knowledgable teacher! I appreciate all the details that will make me a better gardener. This video opens a brand new window of understanding for me. Thank you so very much for taking the time to post this video.
I have a apricot and plum trees 20 feet apart and they both produce fruit.
thank you so much for the information
Very interesting ! I always learn something new with you!!! Thank you!!
My pleasure!