FRUITFUL PURSUITS
Tolerance and Rules
People tend to be too tolerant of their fruit trees, accepting them even if they bear poor or no fruit. Perhaps it’s the snowball of blossoms in spring that makes a lack of edible fruit later in the season acceptable. Of course, if a tree is young and not yet of flowering age, the barren plant can be forgiven. But pinpointing the reason why your tree is barren is the first step to reaping both visual and gustatory pleasures.
Lack of cross-pollination, that is, pollen from a different variety of the same kind of fruit, could be the problem.
Apricot orchard in bloom
