apple trees not flowering this year. Anyone else?

No problem with my apple trees in North West Wales
Picture taken yesterday morning not sure of variety they were here when we moved in

My apple trees are in full blossom 🌸
Beautiful!

I think it is because mine are still young, anyway I will be getting and using vitax Q4 fertiliser this weekend. I don`t mind this year as they will be putting more energy into building strong roots and branches

Mine are beautiful, but we always get a frost which will kill half of the blossoms, but we usually get a good crop of cooking apples.

Sweet Wales. I have three apple trees , all have blossom, though I think not as much as last year. The pear and cherries have a great deal.

I have two patio apple trees, three years old (Golden Spur and Red Spur) and they're heavy with blossom.

We have a Braeburn in our garden which MrA bought 8 years ago from the garden centre. The blossom this year is the best it has ever been - just hoping we don't a hard enough frost to take it all off.

My plum tree had about four pieces of blossom this year - it’s usually covered. We never get fruit anyway - the birds see to that - but certainly won’t this year.

Two of our espalier apple trees have no blossoms. Last year they were covered in blossom. However, the ancient one on the other side is covered as it always is.
For two years our plum tree had no blossom, I threatened it with the chop, after that it has born loads of fruit.

There is an abundance of blossom on my youngish dwarf apple trees here in chilly Glasgow.
However, my thirty year old crab apple tree has only two blooms!

My apple trees have hardly any leaves yet, let alone blossom. They are over 20 years old. Two smaller bushier apple trees are much the same, but the pear tree is covered in blossom.
I’m in the North East, it’s really cold and we had hailstones on Thursday.

I don't have an apple tree but my plum tree has hardly any blossom and it is usually covered. My little pear tree has lots of blossom though and last year it had none.

I've found that apple trees seem to go in cycles. Every few years they'll have a bumper crop year and sometimes they'll produce very little compared to a normal year. Maybe your trees are having a "rest year".

My mother-in-law's apples are heavy with blossom in the Midlands.

My son bought me one last year and it’s in a pot and it’s flowering at present. I’ve no idea how to look after it so any advice would be very welcome.

Apples are in blossom, probably not as prolific as usual, hardly surprising it’s so cold the last couple of weeks, plums have set a lot of fruit they will be loaded.y

tickingbird

My son bought me one last year and it’s in a pot and it’s flowering at present. I’ve no idea how to look after it so any advice would be very welcome.

It is the time to put a grease band round the trunk. It will stop the wingless female fruit moths laying grubs in the developing fruit.
Water the trees well, even if it’s been raining. ( I can hardly believe I’m typing that last sentence! 💦)

Septimia

I've found that apple trees seem to go in cycles. Every few years they'll have a bumper crop year and sometimes they'll produce very little compared to a normal year. Maybe your trees are having a "rest year".

Mine do the same - both 20 year-old plus on opposite sides of the garden have a 'rest season' and then produce a bumper crop the following year.

Septimia

I've found that apple trees seem to go in cycles. Every few years they'll have a bumper crop year and sometimes they'll produce very little compared to a normal year. Maybe your trees are having a "rest year".

I wonder if all trees have mast years like oaks? About every 6 or 7 years our oaks have no acorns at all, then masses the following years.

Our apple tree and crab apple tree have both had loads of blossoms. MrA cut the branches on the crab apple right back to the trunk last year (he only just escaped beheading when I saw what he had done) so I was really surprised to see loads of blossoms on the remaining few twigs branches.

AreWeThereYet

Septimia

I've found that apple trees seem to go in cycles. Every few years they'll have a bumper crop year and sometimes they'll produce very little compared to a normal year. Maybe your trees are having a "rest year".

I wonder if all trees have mast years like oaks? About every 6 or 7 years our oaks have no acorns at all, then masses the following years.

Our apple tree and crab apple tree have both had loads of blossoms. MrA cut the branches on the crab apple right back to the trunk last year (he only just escaped beheading when I saw what he had done) so I was really surprised to see loads of blossoms on the remaining few twigs branches.

🤣🤣🤣 Mr A cut the branches right back to the trunk - he only just escaped a beheading
I have one of those AWTYet

Ours aren't in flower yet, karmalady

The plum tree had plenty of flowers but that is always earlier.

Mind you, our apples trees have struggled since planting about 4 years ago. They replaced a very productive Bramley

DH says May, karmalady 🙂

Are apple trees like roses Callistemon, in as much as a new tree shouldn't be planted where an old one grew?

I have a Bramley which is flowering reasonably well on one side, and full of watershoots on the other, annoyingly.

I’m going to send several granddaughters up it with secateurs!