Each owner of the garden dreams of fruitful trees in his garden, but sometimes it happens that the apple tree does not bear fruit even after 5-7 years.
Not only do you have to wait for the first fruits for a very long time, but then the trees are able to please only a few apples and beautiful foliage.
For what reasons can an apple tree not bear fruit
When buying a seedling, you need to find out after how many years this variety will enter adulthood and will be able to bear the first fruits. There are early varieties that produce crops after 4 years, and late varieties on which inflorescences appear only in the eighth year.
In other cases, it is necessary to understand why the apple tree does not bloom, and eliminate the cause of infertility:
• Planting apple trees with violations of the rules;
• Incorrect crown formation;
• Poor quality care;
• Unsuitable variety for the region.
Any of these reasons can leave you without a crop.
How to plant an apple tree
It is necessary to buy seedlings in specialized organizations, this will make it possible to purchase a regionalized and high-quality seedling for sure. At the time of purchase, you need to inspect the plant, it must have branched roots and a straight trunk. The place of vaccination should be noticeable, you need to find out the name of the variety and take an interest in its features.
Preparation of the landing pit begins a month before planting, it is necessary to choose a well-lit area, with a low level of groundwater. The soil should be well fertilized, dig a hole with dimensions of 70x100x100 cm. It is covered with 1/3 fertile soil, tucked with ½ cup of potassium sulfate, 1 cup of wood ash and superphosphate and several buckets of well-overcooked humus; all this mixes well.
An incorrectly planted tree will produce a small crop or not bring apples at all. For this reason, it is necessary to plant an apple tree in a prepared landing pit, in which the soil has already settled, and there is no risk that the tree trunk will fall into the ground.
A layer of nutrient soil is poured into a dug hole and well poured well to compact the soil. On this pillow, the roots of the seedling are leveled and fall asleep so that the neck of the tree is free. You must immediately install the peg and attach the tree trunk to it. Watering a seedling and trampling the soil around it, it is well compacted.
Crown formation
Pruning of apple trees begins at 4 years, you need to restrain the growth of young apple trees in height, you can not let the branches grow inside the crown, you need to regularly trim the tops that prevent the sun's rays from penetrating into the crown. When pruning, it is necessary to protect short branches with fruit buds, inflorescences will appear on the bottom in the spring. When pruning a tree, it must be remembered that a strong pruning of skeletal branches, next year a lot of new growth will appear on the apple tree, which will greatly reduce yield.
In any tree 2, the main tasks are the need for procreation and the capture of free space, in other words, the formation of seeds (not the surrounding pulp, which we need). The roots rarely spread beyond the perimeter of the crown. The tree is trying to climb up to get more sun rays. While the shoots give a large increase, the apple tree spends all its forces from the roots on the development of branches and forms few small branches on which inflorescences are laid.
If a tree has many branches located almost vertically, then the harvest is not worth the wait. It is necessary to gradually translate them into a horizontal position, using pruning (leave a kidney pointing down on a shortened branch at the end). You can hang the load to a vertically located branch so that it gradually lowers, you can bend the shoots with a rope.
The branches need to be bent gradually, you need to make the cuff from a durable material. On top of the cuff prepared and freely fixed on the branch, the rope is fastened. Its end is attached to a peg slanted into the ground. After that, they begin to gradually wind the rope around the peg. All summer, the branch bends, and leave it for the winter in this position. Next year, the branch bends again, moving it to a horizontal position. After moving to a horizontal position, tops (vertically growing shoots) form on the branches. It must be immediately cut to a branch, or also moved to a horizontal position, orienting to where other branches do not grow.
Occasionally, the branches grow almost horizontally, and the tree is planted as it should, but there are no fruits on the apple tree. This may be due to a lack of iron. There is an old folk recipe - you need to drive 2 rusty, medium-sized nails into the tree trunk. It is possible to carry out this operation not so radically, just a few rusty cans are instilled under an apple tree or the plant is treated 2-3 times per season with a solution of iron sulfate (1 teaspoon of the drug is dissolved in a bucket of water). Since many cans are covered with a thin layer of aluminum, and almost do not rust in the soil, they must be burnt in a fire in advance, then flattened, then bury.
You can purchase the drug "Ferovit"they are sprayed with leaves in the spring and in the first decade of June - 4 drops of the drug are dissolved in 1 liter of water. But remember that this composition provokes the growth of shoots.
Attention! Gthe mouth of the crown should be such that after the leaves fly around the apple tree, a sparrow could easily fly through it anywhere. This indicates the correct pruning of the tree.
If inflorescences begin to fly around, then perhaps there is simply no other apple tree nearby, and the flowers could not be pollinated. If the flowers are deformed, they cannot open completely - the larvae of the flower bee have been damaged.
An effective way to help the apple tree if it does not bear fruit is to prune the area of the tree’s roots. A good supply of plants with nutrients with a large amount of nitrogen enhances root growth to the detriment of fruit formation. For this reason, it is necessary to reduce the amount of nitrogen in top dressing, and cut the root system according to the projection of the crown on the ground. As a result of stress, the tree will begin to think about procreation, and will begin to grow fruit twigs.
You can feed with a drug containing easily digestible iron. If even after this the apple tree does not bear fruit, then it is better to replace it, sometimes there are specimens that are not able to grow crops.
Diseases provoking infertility of the apple tree
If nothing helps to cause fruiting in the tree, then the apple tree may be sick. If bacterial or fungal diseases appear on the plant for several years and treatment is not carried out, then the apple tree is greatly depleted. A lot of effort is spent on the fight against the disease, and the formation of fruits becomes a secondary task, all the resources of the apple tree are aimed at survival. Immediately after the onset of the disease, the yield decreases, if the tree is not helped, then it stops blooming.
When buying a seedling, you need to immediately find out whether this variety can bear fruit every year. There are plants that form a substantial crop every two years. It is necessary to protect the fruit tree, constantly adjust how much fruit will be poured on the branches. With a very large crop, the plant depletes all its reserves. In this case, winter frosts and spring burns threaten its existence.
