{"id":18433,"date":"2017-06-05T20:07:55","date_gmt":"2017-06-05T19:07:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/?p=18433"},"modified":"2017-06-05T20:07:55","modified_gmt":"2017-06-05T19:07:55","slug":"biennial-apple-trees","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/flowers\/vegetables-herbs\/biennial-apple-trees\/","title":{"rendered":"Biennial Apple Trees"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3192\" src=\"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/05\/apple-blossom.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"440\" height=\"336\" srcset=\"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/05\/apple-blossom.jpg 440w, https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/05\/apple-blossom-300x229.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 440px) 100vw, 440px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>An apple a day is not possible if you only get an apple every other year and that is the fate of some trees. Biennial bearing or a high crop followed by virtually no crop is not the sort of apple production a gardener needs.<\/p>\n<h3>Causes of Erratic Fruiting<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>Some types of apple cultivars are more prone than others to fruiting only in alternative years. Beauty of Bath and Laxton&#8217;s Superb naturally tend to fruit biennally.<\/li>\n<li>Trees can be tipped into biennial mode by frost when no pollination takes place.<\/li>\n<li>No crop, high crop, no crop becomes learnt behaviour<\/li>\n<li>Heavy crop during an on year depletes the resources and the tree takes a rest or year out<\/li>\n<li>Keeping too much old wood reduces new wood and can lead to biennial bearing.<\/li>\n<li>Cropping patterns are internally regulated by the tree.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>Solutions to Erratic Apple Bearing<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>Select varieties and pollinators with care.<\/li>\n<li>Thin out the flower clusters leaving only 10% of the flowers to shock the tree and modify its behaviour. It may take several seasons.<\/li>\n<li>Water your trees and look after them during both years.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>Other Comments<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>Apple trees\u00c2\u00a0 initiate flower buds for next season\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s crop in the current season.<\/li>\n<li>An alternation of large and small crops can be caused by competition between the current season\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s crop and the coming season\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s flower buds.<\/li>\n<li>Seed-produced hormones from the developing ovules have an inhibitory effect on flower development. Apple may be prone to this floral inhibition.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An apple a day is not possible if you only get an apple every other year and that is the fate of some trees. Biennial bearing or a high crop followed by virtually no crop is not the sort of apple production a gardener needs. Causes of Erratic Fruiting Some types of apple cultivars are more prone than others to fruiting only in alternative years. Beauty of Bath and Laxton&#8217;s Superb naturally tend to fruit biennally. Trees can be tipped&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"><a class=\"btn btn-default\" href=\"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/flowers\/vegetables-herbs\/biennial-apple-trees\/\"> Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">  Read More<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18433","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-vegetables-herbs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18433","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18433"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18433\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18433"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18433"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18433"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}