patio fruit trees but no fruit

Emuchops

Buy a cheap Crabapple-they seem to cross pollinate well. I live in a rural windy high area-no other fruit trees-and my cheap plum, and 3 other apple trees are all bearing a lot of fruit (been in about 4-5years).

debtdesperado

When are you pruning them? You're not doing it at the wrong time of year or cutting off the new growth and unwittingly cutting off the bits that would be about to flower?

(Says someone who has just discovered that is the very reason that her three year old loganberry has never produced a single flower, let alone fruit...:-))

Get googling and look at a few sources. This might be the reason that you aren't getting any flowers. If you're not getting any flowers then it doesn't matter whether they are self-pollinating or not, but you need to get some blossom to know this.

Also, are the trees in the right conditions? Have you tried moving them about? If they are getting lots of leaves and otherwise thriving then they might be duds. If they aren't getting many leaves either, then maybe the aren't healthy enough.

Do they need bigger pots? Finally, another thing to try is getting some fruit tree fertiliser and build them up for next year.

If you've tried doing all of this then I would suggest mentioning that when you complain to the company or leaving an online review.

easyhost

debtdesperado wrote: »

When are you pruning them? You're not doing it at the wrong time of year or cutting off the new growth and unwittingly cutting off the bits that would be about to flower?

(Says someone who has just discovered that is the very reason that her three year old loganberry has never produced a single flower, let alone fruit...:-))

Get googling and look at a few sources. This might be the reason that you aren't getting any flowers. If you're not getting any flowers then it doesn't matter whether they are self-pollinating or not, but you need to get some blossom to know this.

Also, are the trees in the right conditions? Have you tried moving them about? If they are getting lots of leaves and otherwise thriving then they might be duds. If they aren't getting many leaves either, then maybe the aren't healthy enough.

Do they need bigger pots? Finally, another thing to try is getting some fruit tree fertiliser and build them up for next year.

If you've tried doing all of this then I would suggest mentioning that when you complain to the company or leaving an online review.

i prune them in the winter correctly, the apple tree produces blossoms by the bucketload, but no fruit. the pear tree has leaves, but no blossoms or fruit