Apple tree not doing anything.

[StephenH]

Four of my five apple trees, three in their second full year and one mature, are at last, after the awful winter, bursting into leaf, and will hopefully start flowering soon, but 'Cottenham Seedling' is still at the tightly-closed bud stage. Should I be worried?

[Nicos]

I have an unknown variety which is still in tight bud stage.
(It doesn't look dead like the dead one does!!!)
They're only saplings about 3ft high and the other 5 are looking fine.
I'm crossing my fingers it's just late- after all the others it was with are fine ( apart from the dead one!!!!)

good luck!

[WrexTheDragon]

I am in the same boat, I have 5 apple trees in bud but another one that has very small buds just forming.

It is like this one is about 4 weeks behind the others. They are all in a close location of each other.

Strange!

[Madasafish]

Here too.
Patience.

[FB.]

Cottenham seedling is a very-late-flowering variety.

My own very-late-flowering varieties; Edward VII, Court Pendu Plat and Crawley Beaty, are still asleep.
.....and a good thing too, since we're expecting a frost tonight which might damage the almost-open flowers on some of the early-flowering varieties.

Be patient and be grateful that your tree will avoid late frosts.

[jemma_charlie]

after reading this I feel better that my russet looks dead so I won't give up on it just yet.

[StephenH]

Thanks for the encouragement. It doesn't look dead, but it's just very late - but then everything is because of the hard winter. My mature apple tree would normally be in full flower by now, I think, but it hasn't started yet.