Cherry bush's not fruting

[gary6431]

Hi all can someone help i got two cherry trees form two different mainstream company's one three years ago and on two years ago the problem is they both have not fruited. the one i bought 3 years ago never even bloomed until this year i thought that i would get some fruit but it did not the other did not even flower is the some thing that i am doing wrong

Thanks in advance.

[Two_Sheds]

varieties? Both varieties should be in flower at the same time for pollination.

I guess you need to get them flowering first though: and they need a sunny spot.

[rustylady]

Are in open ground or in pots?

[gary6431]

both are in large pots and are in full sun from morning to evening when good old Belfast gets the sun LOL!!!!!

[Two_Sheds]

What varieties Gary?

If the one that flowered isn't self-fertile, then it didn't get pollinated, so won't produce fruit

[gary6431]

to be honest i do not know the names of both trees but they were supposed to be self fertile can you suggest the names of some varieties that i can purchase for next season i only have a small area that is why i use pots to grow the trees

[endymion]

We've got a Stella, it's quite a common variety and is self-fertile. Not that we actually get to eat any of the fruit because the birds seem to strip the tree before they're properly ripe, so it might not be the best variety for you to grow.

[BUFFS]

We've got a Stella, it's quite a common variety and is self-fertile. Not that we actually get to eat any of the fruit because the birds seem to strip the tree before they're properly ripe, so it might not be the best variety for you to grow.

we have a stella and as we share the same climate you should be fine growing that,but throw a net over it as the blooms fade and fruit start to swell, or the birds will have the lot,cheap netting from the likes of wilko is fine...

[FB.]

Hi all can someone help i got two cherry trees form two different mainstream company's one three years ago and on two years ago the problem is they both have not fruited. the one i bought 3 years ago never even bloomed until this year i thought that i would get some fruit but it did not the other did not even flower is the some thing that i am doing wrong

Thanks in advance.

All plants will try to grow as much as possible when young, so that - in the wild - they would be bigger and stronger than their neighbouring trees and therefore able to compete favourably.
Therefore, when growing conditions are too good, a tree will just keep growing and not fruiting. Only after the tree has reached a certain age (age of fruiting varies with variety and can vary with rootstock) and when the tree feels a little stressed will it start to crop. This is basically the tree thinking: "I can't grow much more, so it's time to reproduce before another stronger tree comes along and out-competes me before I can spread my seed".

Really dwarfing rootstocks don't exist for cherries, so they will generally take longer to start cropping than other fruits.

One way to keep the tree compact and add some stress, to encourage fruiting the following year, is to prune the vigorous new shoots quite hard in summer. Run a search on summer pruning cherries for various ideas on how best to do it because timing makes a difference and often more than one summer prune is required for best results.