[angelavdavis]

My parents (Herts) say the same about their apples and plums.

3 options:
- frost got the blossom
- tree exhausted after good crop last year
- blossom came out early / before the pollinators were around.

I have a fourth too:
- high winds caused tree to drop the embryo fruit that did form

[Growster...]

Bit of a spread of answers here, thank you!

Funnily enough, on Countryfile last evening, the same subject came up, and the commercial grower interviewed was concerned that he'd lost 90% of his crop, which is disastrous!

At least we have a few apples, and they'll just be enough, as long as there isn't an extension to the dreaded 'June Drop'!

[allotmentann]

I think that Yorkie's suggestion of last years bumper crop might be the correct one. I planted three fairly large (but new) apple trees last year (two Laxton Superb and a Granny Smith), they obviously didn't really fruit last year. Two are at the plot and one in my garden. All three have lots of apples and have had to be drastically thinned, so this makes me think the bumper crop last year may be the cause of the lack of fruit this year. I noticed several big trees at the allotments that had lost massive branches under the weight of the fruit last year. So it is perhaps just nature balancing itself out

[aelf]

The apple tree on my plot has no fruit on it this year but the one at work, which is an old tree, is covered in fruit. It always produces a bumper crop of fantastic cooking apples and looks like it will again this year 

My 2 plum trees are also bare of fruit. No jam this year 

[Casey76]

My apple tree has quite a good crop currently (if the June Drop ever stops!)... however my pear tree, which is just 10ft from the apple hasn't a single fruit on it that I can see

[grendel]

Ah now while my apple trees are doing well my pear doesnt seem to have done anything yet.
Grendel

[heygrow]

I was going post and ask why my apple tree has not produced any this year and then saw this and see I'm in good(?) company.
Same issue. Lots of blossoms, but no apples forming at all as far as I can see, but full of leaves more than ever before.