MY OLD BRAMLEY APPLE TREE GONE BROWN

fOR FIRST TIME (lived here for over 40years) the reliable old Apple Tree (cookers) looks to have NO apples, and just brown dried up ends of the blossom......is that the end? Is it just the drought and dry? ANything to be done? [email protected] [email protected]

 

Possibly a late frost killed the buds? Or soil/temperature conditions? How are the leaves? Are they green and healthy? Were there any bees buzing around it collecting pollen? Sometimes old fellas go biennial cropping, but this sounds a bit sudden. Also possible is that if there aren't many trees aound the cross-pollinator has been chopped down or heavily pruned and therefore no pollination could occur.

 

I think that's what's happened to my ballerina apple tree. I had lots of blossoms but can't find any sign of apples developing and the leaves are healthy. I'm putting mine down to having moved from the IoW last summer to here, trying to adjust to the climate. The apple trees across the lane have fruited.

 

It could also have been the dryness of the weather when the flowers were out. I know from other posters in Dorset that they have had an extremely dry spring.