We had another warm and mild winter, and an early spring. We have peaches and apricots, but very few apples.
On the upside a few apple trees are making their first fruits this year including
Wealthy
Spitzenburg
Maigold
Smokehouse
Ashmead’s Kernel made last year, but the moths ate em, this year looks like more fruits.
And I have a new variety to taste on a multi graft too
Virginia Gold.
Maybe after a colder winter we’ll get more.
My apples are as heavy a set as I have ever seen this year, especially my honeycrisp.
Next to nothing. By the time I get thru fruit drop and squirrels, it may well be nothing
I have a light crop, but I blame my greed last year. Should of pruned more apples.
Mine is going to be average at best. No crop last year due to a late freeze, tons of blossoms this year and decent weather for the pollinators during the bloom period but just not a great fruit set.
I also moved 8 trees to consolidate my two orchards into one so it will be a slow year.
I have 4 apple trees that are between 4 -10 years old, a Honey Crisp, two William’s Prides and a Gold Rush. All set very well this year. I have to be careful to thin well. Otherwise, I will pay the price next year.
I am excited to see the following grafts set fruit this year: Kidd’s Orange Red, Alkmene, Ananas Reinette, Fuji, Golden Russet, Kamijn de Sonneville, Pink Lady and Rubinette
@joleneakamama, At first I thought yours was Marigold (which I grafted). Your is Maigold.
Very uneven bloom and decent fruit set on what did bloom- same for pears. Most varieties on my multi-graft apple just didn’t bother to bloom, same on the multi-graft pear. I still need to thin, though.
Went out this morn to bag any apples I found - 20 Fuji, 9 Gala. Thinning won’t be a problem
Didn’t bag any pears, only saw similar numbers - except for Kieffer, which bloomed 10 days earlier than the rest
Of course there’s no guarantee that they won’t drop or get got by the squirrels
My Anoka already has the ground covered with drops. If they don’t all fall off, this will be it’s best crop since planted 27 years ago. It would be good for early cooking if any of them develop any size.
My other 27 year old trees all have apples, but light crop: Fuji, Granny, Braeburn and a mis-labeled tree that possibly is an Arkansas Black … bought from Miller Nursery as a “Macintosh” in 1991.
More recently planted trees had few blooms (or none) but excellent vegetative growth and no apples set.
I attempted to hand pollinate Frostbite to no avail.
Got approximately 90 percent take on all the new grafts I made this spring.
Mac set about 5. My biggest tree.
Gala set about 500. No joke. Been thinning all week.
Did not get the apples thinned properly last year and some varieties have very little fruit this year as a result.
Biennial bearing is another apple problem to learn about this year.
Fuji has the lowest amount of fruit this year but some varieties don’t seem to be impacted by producing a huge crop last year. Goldrush is impacted too, but much less. Just about every cluster on Goldrush has 5 apples, but not enough clusters.
I think I finished thinning apple and pear yesterday. It was hard to take any apples off because my crop is going to be so light. I cheated by not thinning as heavily as I usually do!
I was too busy last year to thin Goldrush, and it overset like crazy. This year hubby took the center out, and it is going to work on growing…not a single bloom.
We had planned on spraying the trees for the first time for coddling moth using something with Spinosad, but will probably not even bother for the few apples that are there, especially since our neighbors with apple trees don’t do anything.
This year’s project will be putting up the tall spindle trellis for about 10 150 foot rows.
I may not even get all the trees grafted this year that I COULD simply because life is crazy busy with work…and garden.
Some year I am gonna have apples, and cider running out my ears!!! 
Actually ate one of the apples off of my Dorsett yesterday…it only had 4 and this one probably could have used a bit more ripening but it was actually pretty tasty, not a bad size either. I’m not entirely sure when they’re supposed to fully ripen so I’ll be checking the remaining apples every day.
Dear got in my yard and ate most of the apples and a lot of the branches.
I have mediocre set at best. Blaming it on all the rain we got during full bloom.
I hope to have more than usual as the trees are getting older. My new applets include: Northern Spy, Prairie Spy, Green and Yellow Newtowns, King David, Reine does Reinettes 1700, Hedwigiae, and Sundance. Also first crop of
Surefire cherries.
I have been mostly focusing on my new raised beds and veggies. It has mostly been a cooler Spring so I hope fruit flavor is good.
On a sad note bad luck with plums. Flowers but no plums. My 2018 stone grafts continue to be a problem with disappointing takes and slug damage. Still xing fingers for persimmons while the fig cuttings died. Yet the apple and pear grafts look good.
We have 17 apple trees, and 2 bloomed, the Gold Russet and Alkmene. The GR is the runt tree of all of them, so doesn’t really matter there. The Alkie set one fruit. All of the trees have been in the ground for at least a year, so no big surprise. But, I was surprised the 12ft tall Winesap didn’t bloom at all. That bothers me as I pruned it and pulled down a lot of branches to induce blooming.
The Alkie has been in the ground one year, it’s on a G11 rootstock, but has been pretty vigorous. So would it be harmful to let it mature this one fruit? It’s about 3/4" wide now.