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- When the apple tree does not bloom in the garden
- The search for the causes
- Emergency measures for poor flowering trees
- Cut the tree properly
- Tips & Tricks
When the apple tree does not bloom in the garden
Ideally, every year, an apple tree in the garden brings a slightly larger yield of large and tasty fruits. However, it can almost drive a hobby gardener to despair if the crop fails due to lack of apple blossoms.
The search for the causes
First of all, you should not panic if it is still a relatively young apple tree with semi-stem or high-stemmed processing. Even with young seedlings that have been pulled from a core, it can take about seven to ten years to the first own apple harvest. But it can also come to blooming in older apple trees, without a specific disease is present. In the case of apple varieties such as the Boskoop, so-called alternance can lead to sufficient blooms only every two years.
Emergency measures for poor flowering trees
Often it may be due to lack of care by the gardener, when an apple tree flowers poorly or not at all. Then the following factors should be checked:
If the apple tree stands on very sandy and thus permeable soil, then it should be watered once a week even in the fall and spring. In addition, you must pay attention to the composition of the fertilizer when fertilizing, if you not only fertilize with biological materials. If too much nitrogen reaches the shallow leaking tree roots, it may lead to a weakening of the flowering behavior. Therefore limit the entry of nitrogen into the area of the tree disk and make sure that you have enough potassium.
Cut the tree properly
The winter cut is very important for the vitality of an apple tree. But you should always leave one-year branches. Since an apple tree only buds on the two-year-old wood and thus carries flowers, too eager cutting measures can quickly lead to blooming. Some varieties such as the starrenette also form the buds rather far from the branches. So if you shorten the branches too much, you also remove all future flowers with the cut. Nevertheless, you should cut your apple tree regularly in winter and also in summer. The more water cans you remove at the top of the treetop in summer, the more energy the apple tree can put into the flower buds over the winter.
Tips & Tricks
Sometimes, even at late night frosts, all apple tree blossoms fall off. This belongs to the rhythm of nature as well as particularly rich harvest years. However, if there is no apple blossom in the long term, another apple variety should be grafted onto the tree.