4 Reasons Why Your Fruit Tree is Not Producing Fruit

this week I want to show you not one not two not three but four reasons why your fruit tree may not have produced fruit stay tuned [Music] [Applause] [Music] so I often get asked and toxin courses oh I got a fruit tree and it's not giving me any fruit what's going on what's wrong well there's two main reasons why your fruit tree won't be giving you any fruit the first one is it may not be old enough to flower so I always say well is your treat flowering you think oh yeah it's flowering okay so at least we know it's old enough to produce fruit the second one is how many fruit trees you have you said my fruit tree I have a fruit tree I have an apple tree or a pear tree or plum tree whatever your one fruit tree isn't giving you any fruit well is your fruit tree all alone does it have a partner can it have fruit sex with another tree I think all that's crazy well it needs to be pollinated by another fruit tree of the same species so if I say hey I got an apple tree here well if you only have one apple tree with one cultivar on it and that's a whole different story then it won't pollinate itself so you think well if a bumblebee I see the bumblebee and it's going from flower to flower right but it's going from flower to flower on the same tree so a bumblebee needs to go and and fly oh look here this is a Spartan apple tree and it's flying from the Spartan apple tree and it goes to oh it's going to this one which is a Fulton loss you think well that's two different kinds that's correct that's what it needs to do so you need two different cultivars or people say varieties but you need two different trees of the same species so that you get successful pollination now you say I have I have a big big property and I have two fruit trees on the same property except ones way down there and the other ones way over there so distance does matter because that one bee or the several bees that are pollinating have to go from your far tree to your other far trees so distance matters and so usually the rule is you want your trees to be about 300 meters or 300 yards away from each other otherwise they don't pollinate successfully that be the chance of the bees finding that one tree and that other tree so distance does matter remember 300 meters as a rule if you have a yard obviously having another tree it could be not your tree because people say yeah I only have one tree but it produces well well that just means that somebody in your neighborhood or near you has another one and the bees are finding that tree to your tree so you need two different kind you need to have them within about 300 yards of each other or 300 meters and there's your there's your how many is that so we said first one was you have to have a tree that's old enough second one you have to have two trees of the same cultivar no you need two trees of different cultivars of the same species okay so two apple trees of different kinds of different varieties of different cultivars warbling Vireo and the last one really important look notice here look at this so where are all the bees no bees around this morning well there is a reason it's early morning the flowers are just basically waking up you see they haven't totally opened up yet so early in the morning the flowers are slowly uncurling the temperature right now is 10 degrees Celsius or 50 Fahrenheit a red fleshed crabapple called Mac red and the the last important point his temperature is important we've had really cool weather the last few days and so a flower generally lasts about 3 days so if this flower opens here's a king this is the king bloom this one in the middle is the king so these primary flowers are the first ones to flower and all the ones around it flower afterwards so when a flower opens and it'll open for 3 or 4 days but it's kind of open to be pollinated for 3 days if it's too cold in those 3 days it may not get pollinated that's why the trees put their flowers not all in one basket so they'll have the first one that's not a good example here's a real good example of a king so there was the King blossom that first one which is even losing its petals already and then you have the other ones all around it 1 2 3 4 and actually should have been 5 in the cluster so 5 around the king which is makes 4 6 flowers and so that one is already finished you see the color that one hasn't been pollinated and this one actually may not have mid pollinated I don't know if they've been pollinate or not I know that this one is not as old as this one it's Apple it's right right now as peak Apple blooms and you see peak apple bloom's here's pears look already the pears have formed little pear let's see actually that's a lot of pollination for the pears it was nicer weather for the pair Paul nation then the apples right now we've had some yesterday it was rainy and cool we've had some cool weather so temperature is important it's important in that if it's too cold the bees aren't flying eight degrees is the critical point if it's eight degrees out the bumblebees start to be active so it's 10 degrees up now the bumblebees are out not a huge but they're out but at 8 degrees they only start bumblebees are bigger they're able to get going earlier and if the temperature today only reaches 10 degrees then the bumblebees are the only ones that are really going to be active it takes 12 degrees for honeybees and many or most native bees to be also active so because these are much smaller bees they're not able to get around and pollinate actively when the temperature is too low the honeybee stay in the hive and the native bee stay in the hive when it's warm enough everybody can be out so at 8 degrees the bumblebee start at 12 degrees the honeybees and native bee start and if it's warmer than 12 everybody's out obviously so temperature is another reason why you may not have gotten fruit if it was too cold usually it's cold and rainy during blossom time then the bees aren't active and pollinating it's not often that the weather isn't good enough for any fruit to be pollinated that's that really doesn't happen very often because just the Sun coming out for an afternoon for a few hours the bees are really eager to get out there now get out there and pollinate but that is a possibility in terms of reducing the amount of fruit you say I didn't get much fruit I got some well usually if you got some maybe the temperature was too cold wasn't warm enough for long enough for many of the flowers to get pollinated so that's pretty well three reasons why you may not have gotten fruit maybe your tree wasn't old enough maybe you only had one type of tree maybe if you had a second one it was too far away and the fourth one was maybe the temperature was too cold and the bees weren't active when the trees were blooming so that gives you your four reasons why your fruit tree didn't produce any fruit hope this helps thanks for watching see you next week bye thanks for watching intrigue check out 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Channel: Stefan Sobkowiak - The Permaculture Orchard

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Length: 10min 47sec (647 seconds)

Published: Fri Dec 27 2019