What's Wrong With Our Crab Apple?!

@Hatley are you saying bees, my friend?

@JustBhem Me either . . never heard of trees mating! . . I should have taken more subjects on Botany in college. . . But according to another friend - - cross pollination happens when pollens of one crab apple carried by bees, wasps, and wind to flowers of another apple tree. It fertilizes it . . the result is fruit. So that is how fruit trees mate!

@antonbunot That's exactly what I mean, One year they will bear lots of fruit then the next year, they will bear very little or none. You may want to prune it (I don't remember what is the best time for crabapples) and see what happens next year.

@peavey I pruned it last May . . I think I over-pruned it; the reason why it bore no fruits.

@peavey As you can see in the picture it bore lots of fruits! Not even one fruit this year. Our crab apple is 7 years old. I think it is still young.

@jstory07 I am guessing, too. Maybe next year it will bear lots of fruits like last year.

@antonbunot There are many reasons why a tree stops giving fruits. One, is the tree age, they also become old, another is poor pollination and another one too much over-fertilization or over-pruning, the cause may be the fertilizer applied to the grass. Try not to fertilize the grass near the tree and not too prune too much in Autumn and see if next year you have fruits.

@LadyDuck Hmm, I pruned it last May . . . Maybe, I overdid it!

@LadyLuck . . . . You think so? This is the only year that it did not bear fruits.

@ridingbet Smaller than regular apples . . . and they taste like santol! Nagalsem! . . . Here's a close-up image of crab apples when not ripe yet. When ripe they turn dark red as you can see in the complementing photo above.

@ridingbet You mean apple trees finally grow in the Philippines?

@antonbunot wow, so beautiful red crab apples. my big brother's apple tree has also grown fruits, but these apples fall on earth because my brother is not fond of apples.

@Shavkat I keep trying to figure out the similarity between the Blessed Mary and our stupid apple tree! I can't figure out, my friend. O, I figured out - - The Lord Jesus is her only son; so, our apple tree bore fruits just once and that's it. I wonder why Mary and Joseph never cared to give a brother or sister to our Lord Jesus. As a matter of fact, our Lord Jesus' father is the Holy Spirit not Joe. I am not sure if fruit trees mate with each other, too. I think cross-pollination is the way they mate . . not the way we humans do! Can you imagine if billion of fruit trees mate the way humans do? The result would be a massive earthquake and tsunami. O, man, I don't even want to think about it!

@antonbunot Next year will bear fruit. And send some here.

@jobelbojet It is late . . . Apple fruits are ripening already this time of the year. By the end of August apple fruits are already ripe - - ready for picking.

@jobelbojel Okay, I will . . .

@LtranKnight2015 Let s switch . . I give you the appe tree and give me your mango tree! hahaha. . Philippine mangos here cost $5 just for one fruit.

@bluesa I think I pruned our apple tree too late.

@poehere Yeah, it was late.

@poehere . . I think I pruned it too late . . I pruned it last May.

@antonbunot That is very late. Normally you prune this in the fall, just before winter. I have never pruned our trees in the spring before summer. Hopefully next year it will give you more crabapples.

Yeah!? But how come it bore lots of fruits last year . . there is an apple tree in our neighborhood but it is a couple of blocks away from our house.