Plum tree with no fruit...

Hello, hopefully someone out there might be able to help with my question regarding my plum tree. We've had the tree now for at least two years and both of these years it has failed to produce any blossom, which obviously means no fruit :-(

The tree is definitely alive and has just finished producing new leaves after winter. It's not the worlds biggest plum tree as it is still quite young, but I would of hoped for at least one plum by now?

As far as I can remember it's a self pollinating Opal plum tree....

Any ideas on whether this is normal or not would be great :-)

 

I would have expected at least a few blossoming buds by the age the tree is now. My guess is that birds are stripping the buds as the Opal plum is a particularly tasty and popular 'take away' snack for them. Try netting the tree early next spring.

 

Cheers for advice If I remember I will try that next year we do have a lot of birds in our garden!

 

It took 2 years before we got any fruit on our plum tree.
Now it's a bout 7 years old, and this year we have loads of fruit, some of the lower fruit is bigger then we've ever had.
Then on Sunday, major disaster.
One of the large branches tore away.
I guessI should have thinned out some of the fruit,or tried to support it.
Then I noticed around the heel of the joint, it looked just slightly brown,as if it was failing for a while, then lower down the tree,there are a couple of vertical "splits" in the bark. :(
I don't want to lose it as I have reared it from a baby.