By Huffmaling
Gloucestershire, United Kingdom
I have a large Bramley Apple tree that was pollarded 2 years ago and last year, as expected, there was no fruit.This year, there is a bit more fruit, but not very much.Will next year see a lot more fruit on the tree, or will it take a few more years to really bear fruit?The tree is about 30 years old.
- 12 Aug, 2017
Answers
Also, it is likely to be weak, and subject to breakage, especially with a good crop weighing it down.
12 Aug, 2017
Agree Tugb.
12 Aug, 2017
Thankyou.I shall remain optimistic for next year.
12 Aug, 2017
A house in our village had some beautiful flowering cherries growing along the boundary of the front garden, these were only 5 metres tall, if that, when she moved on the new folk had them brutally pollarded and though they 'sort of' regrew they never did well thereafter. Sorry!
12 Aug, 2017
Same thing happened to a lovely 'Peppermint Stick' flowering peach in the neighborhood where I grew up. Mercifully, the poor tree only survived for two years afterward.
13 Aug, 2017
Indeed Tugb.
13 Aug, 2017
Previous question
I would expect apple tree that has been pollarded to take several years to come back into fruit well, if it ever does. Pollarding is not normally carried out on fruit trees, just pruning.
12 Aug, 2017