I have 4 apple trees, one is a tall crab apple, all are just 4 years in my soil
Two of the apple trees have no flowers this year, planted as potted shrubs and have fruited for two years, I have always taken off most of the fruit as these are young trees and I did not want to stress them. All the trees look very healthy. The one I planted as a twig, trwyn mochyn apple from Ian Sturrock is full of flowers. I love that apple, had it on my last allotment. At least it has the crabapple for cross pollination and I know it will keep on my apple shelves all winter
I am putting the lack of flowers down to youth, after all they have shown what they can do and are young. The non-flowering trees both have a lot of flower spurs so my light summer pruning was not to blame
I need to cycle past the local apple orchards. I did not see any sign of flowers two weeks ago. I might well do a bit of research re feeding for fruit next year. I did use a potash fertiliser but maybe need to use that earlier
