Apple tree issues

2 years ago had a small crop of eating apples (variety not known)
Last year had some fungal growth which I `cut off`and had a great crop.
This year loads of blossom and then fungal type growth on leaves and the crop is 1 apple.
Any preparation I can do next year re fungal growth?

 

Apart from the issues of biennial bearing, which apples are very prone to, and poor pollination due to weather conditions, do you feed the tree? If you're chopping off leaves, you need to replace their contribution to the tree's energy by giving a balanced fertiliser in Spring.
Someone a lot more up-to-date on what's available in UK in the way of fungicides will be able to advise you about treatments

 

I think the pollination is ok as there were lots of pea sized fruit after flowering, then they starting falling off and I noticed the `fungus`
I have another apple tree (cooking) about 15 feet apart and that has plentiful apples each year.
I did have some blood & bonemeal I put around it in early spring.

 

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Not sure that cutting out fungal growth is the way to go really, if the tree is smallish then spraying with any fungicide which states its ok for apples would be a good idea.

Maybe a couple of winter sprays will something like jayes fluid would help, although it's not what it once was.

Have the apples that drop got any imperfections ? Insect attack etc.

 

They didnt appear to have, they were only pea size when they all dropped, pretty much just after the flowers faded.

 

The attched images are similar to what I can remember (fire blight / mildew) I will follow up on that and see what can be done.

 

Looks like mildew.

Just wondering if the tree was dry, it could partly explain the mildew and the fruit drop.

Does the fruit have mildew in the picture, when they drop at that stage it's often pollination problems.