4 Reasons Why Your Fruit Tree is Not Producing Fruit

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 thought i planted a apple tree, turns out its actually a oak. Been waiting for apples for 10 years now...........

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.

And he even knows the birds singing around him. So much knowledge here... Thank you so much Stefan!

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.

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

You're a very good teacher. Entertaining, and you can tell you're passionate about what you're teaching. Excellent video, thank you!

we are just getting started with fruit trees, and you sir, are a priceless treasure of wisdom. thank you...

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.

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.

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.

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.

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).

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.

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.

Thanks for the info., I grow a lot of stuff but have plenty left to learn.

Stefan, you are a wealth of knowledge and we so appreciate you! Thank you for these amazing videos! Mom of 5 from Nova Scotia

The most sensible explanation I have ever come across. Thank you very much.

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.