Cold, wet spring

amanda says...
Hey Julie - that's interesting as I have 4 plum trees (same age, food etc all planted together) the Sunrise Gulf and the Gulf Ruby flowered perfectly in sync and are loaded with fruit. The Santa Rosa and Satsuma started to flower (much later) in sync them just stopped dead. It's really odd as they haven't done anything since - it's like they have had some kind of shock?
The other thing I noticed is that my peach and nectarine tree are loaded but my apricot had few flowers and no fruit. My dwarf nectarines are covered in flowers but my dwarf peaches haven't pushed a single flower or leaf yet. It seems all the later stuff has failed maybe - so perhaps u are spot on Julie?
Ironically enuf' the custard apples have lots of flowers - and they are sub-tropical!!?? I find it all a bit strange...

Itdepends says...
Got some sunshine today and the bees were out- hoping for more sun soon :)

Jimmy says...
Itsa wierd season all right, my plums flowered a month ago, then the almonds, now my apples, apricots and citrus are flowering this week.

Jimmy says...
Thats cool, my trees in the ground have not flowered but the ones in the pots have. This is because the pot soil warms up quicker.

amanda says...
Well... a balmy 28oC yesterday and hail forecast for 2morrow..? Just when the trees thought it was safe to fruit...!?

amanda says...
Hey Julie - same here! My early plums are fine n got lots, but the later ones (that started to flower then went dormant for ages) missed the boat - only a cupla fruit. My dwarf peaches have just started to shoot - but no flowers :(