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Mary-Jane

Joined: 13 Jan 2005
Posts: 18397
Location: The Fishing Strumpet is from Ceredigion in West Wales

Posted: Mon Aug 13, 12 9:15 am Post subject: Not a single damson this year...
...not one I assume its the trees having their 4-year cycle shut down for a season? Fin and I took down one of the really old ones back in March - that wouldn't have affected anything would it?

Nicky cigreen

Joined: 25 Jun 2007
Posts: 9891
Location: Devon, uk

Posted: Mon Aug 13, 12 9:21 am Post subject:
we are having a rubbish tree fruit year - there are barely any apples, only a handful of plums etc. Its the same for everyone locally - so I assume it is down the the weird spring weather - we had very hot followed by wintery just at the blossom time. - So I would see how everyone else in your area is doing - maybe the same problems for you.

jamanda
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Joined: 22 Oct 2006
Posts: 35058
Location: Devon

Posted: Mon Aug 13, 12 10:25 am Post subject:
Odd though, we went to Rosemoor yesterday and all their trees were laden. Maybe they are just in a very advantageous spot.

gil
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Joined: 08 Jun 2005
Posts: 18416

Posted: Mon Aug 13, 12 10:27 am Post subject:
Not a single damson, plum, greengage or sloe here, and I have quite a lot of fruit trees - bad weather after blossom time, when the fruits were setting. There was a lot of blossom, but nothing came of it.

Mary-Jane

Joined: 13 Jan 2005
Posts: 18397
Location: The Fishing Strumpet is from Ceredigion in West Wales

Posted: Mon Aug 13, 12 10:46 am Post subject:

gil wrote:

...bad weather after blossom time, when the fruits were setting.

Actually, I didn't even see any blossom this year gil

12Bore

Joined: 15 Jun 2008
Posts: 9089
Location: Paddling in the Mersey

Posted: Mon Aug 13, 12 11:08 am Post subject:
We had loads of sloes on the bushed very early this year, then they all disappeared, now coming back in much smaller numbers than usual.

Luath

Joined: 03 Dec 2009
Posts: 761

Posted: Mon Aug 13, 12 12:00 pm Post subject:
Terrible year for all fruit here too.

oldish chris

Joined: 14 Jun 2006
Posts: 4148
Location: Comfortably Wet Southport

Posted: Mon Aug 13, 12 12:47 pm Post subject:
My theory is that it was a late frost. We had a coupe that didn't seem to last until dawn, but burnt potato foliage that was under fleece. Our crop? Way better than M-J's, we've got at least three!!!

tai haku

Joined: 17 Apr 2011
Posts: 472

Posted: Mon Aug 13, 12 8:40 pm Post subject:

oldish chris wrote:

Our crop? Way better than M-J's, we've got at least three!!!

I had two plums but they both dropped off.

12Bore

Joined: 15 Jun 2008
Posts: 9089
Location: Paddling in the Mersey

Posted: Mon Aug 13, 12 8:41 pm Post subject:

tai haku wrote:

oldish chris wrote:

Our crop? Way better than M-J's, we've got at least three!!!

I had two plums but they both dropped off.

Yup, deffo a severe cold spell!

TTouch Homestead

Joined: 13 Oct 2011
Posts: 703
Location: Cardigan, West Wales

Posted: Thu Aug 16, 12 4:54 pm Post subject:
No plums, but defo got damson. One crab apple nothing, the other bulging. Some apples trees nothing, others only slight less than last year...weird ol' weather I think.

dpack

Joined: 02 Jul 2005
Posts: 46344
Location: yes

Posted: Fri Aug 17, 12 7:02 pm Post subject:
weather at flowering put an end to the local york ones

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