Thats exactly how I feel. I have a list of trees/grafts with a mark fruited or not and one fruit gets it on the list. Having said that, I have a large 8 year old McIntosh on MM111 that has exactly one fruit–it’s first. I think we had a party to celebrate. Sorr of a coming of age party. 
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I was at OGW few weeks back to pick up some starts. I saw stone fruits in 1 gallon pots with golf ball size fruits attached to them.
I was there yesterday and saw them as well. Keep in mind that a row of nursery stock contains a lot pollen source.
My experience with apples… is that some are just eager to fruit and some take their time about it.
Gold rush and Novamac are just super eager to fruit. Year 2 for me.
Akane and Hudson Golden Gem… i have 4 year olds that have not bloomed yet. Going to summer prune them again this year.
Espellar or limb bending and summer pruning should speed things up.
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Does it mean the young plants set and are growing the fruit because of cross pollination and not due to their self-pollinating trait?
I’m expecting a good crop of nectarines, pluots, and apricots in the second leaf. I’ve done that before. Not a big crop but 10-40 fruit per tree. Basically, all the fruit that the tree can support without excessive bending. And I’ll likely tie up the branches if that’s an issue.
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I had a massive crop of apples on dwarfing rootstock in CA in the second leaf. I was amazed. Quality wasn’t very good because I did it by pushing water and fertilizer like there was no tomorrow. I’d say 30 lbs per tree.
This is the picture of my Frost Peach last year when it was planted from a 10 gallon pot. Our landscaping company planted the tree digging a large enough hole to drop in the entire content from the pot.
I knew nothing about growing fruit trees and let it fruit. Strangely 2022 was one of the wettest year in PNW where the rains stopped in 3rd week of June and sun came out in July. But this picture was taken during the 2nd week of June. We got over a dozen fruits. I still can’t explain how did this tree manage to fruit in the strangest unfavorable conditions.
This year there are two golf ball sized fruits and I have hacked the tree trying to learn training trees.
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I believe it is due to pollen availability.
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Remember my other posts. Your first yr for this tree just letting it grow is what I’m doing in my greenhouse now. The second yr you hacked away at it causing the tree to respond with vigorous growth in an attempt to retake it’s lost space. That hacking, and vigorous regrowth, delays fruiting.
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Mid May I noticed it wasn’t showing much growth and many branches were bare without any leaf out activity. This was when we had unusually warm spring. Then I found growing fruit forum, then I read copious amount of fruit knowledge, then I hacked it 
Is it going to set fruit next year? given it has vigorous growth.
Picture from mid may.
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@Oregon_Fruit_Grow
I allow newly planted fruit trees 4 to 5 years before making conclusions about their fruiting behavior and fruit quality in my climate.
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The nursery trees and the trees that grow from seeds set fruit about the same number of years. It’s just that the nursery trees have been nursed for at least 2 year for you. Trees grown from seeds can take 3 - 7 years. It depend on the type of trees. Pomegranate from seed took 3 years. Fruit quality suffer until the tree mature in 5 years. Pears trees in 5 years from seeds. Orange and lemon trees take forever so far. Texas red grapefruit took 5 years. Apple took 5 years. All those are from seeds. We have 2 guava trees from Lowes that took 10 years. Thanks to climate change, it survived winter and fruited. They was both labeled as tropical pink guava, but one of them is white and have very high sugar content. Good mistake from Lowes.
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Sticks in a 1 gallon pots fruiting beautifully. Some of them have more fruits ripening than my 3 yr old peach tree.
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Wow, where is that, Portland Nursery?
at OGW.
Wow, that’s a lot of N, or are you talking water 
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30 lbs of fruit per tree on second year dwarf apple trees. I was pushing them very hard for maximum growth near Fresno CA. They amazed me by pumping out a massive yield of fruit. As you know Fresno has a very long growing season and mild winter. So I got 2-3 yrs of growth in one. The apple trees I planted this spring are tiny by comparison.
With all that growth the most surprising thing to me was that they even set fruit buds. I’ve never come close to duplicating that feat anywhere in Texas. And I’ve planted lots of apples on dwarf roots in Texas. But I never pushed them that hard. Partly in fear of freeze damage.
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Aw come on FN, your sentence sequence was irresistible, but your actual point was well taken. .
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