I do not know any thing about cherry tree. I have a question about it. My cherry tree produce few cherries this year, most of them dried up before they mature. My son in law pruned my cherry tree last fall. Is this got any thing to do with this condition? May be this tree is getting older? This tree did not produced too much cherries the season before.
Some cherry trees need to have another variety growing nearby (even in another garden) so that it can be pollinated to produce fruit. (Known as cross-pollination.)
If you had wet, cold weather while the tree was flowering the bees might not come. No bees=no fruit.
If you had a very dry time just after the tree flowered this year, that could make it drop its fruit before it became ripe. Or a very windy spring.
If your tree is for 'flowers only' - an ornamental/flowering cherry then it can produce small fruit but they are mainly eaten by the birds. They're not tasty.
If you know the tree had good fruit in other years, it could be the pruning. However, if the tree has grown some new wood it MIGHT have developed some flower buds over this summer and be ready for next spring.
And, if you want to eat the fruit - you'll probably need a bird net to keep the birds off. They get up very early for fruit snacks, unfortunately.
I have two cherry trees, one is a Stella, the other is Sunburst, both are in a 70 ltr pot both are six feet tall and look very healthy, both produce loads of blossom but thats it, cherries form but then fall off leaving me with about half a dozen, I keep them in a sunny position,and feed them. can you help.there are no signs of bugs. yours sincerely John Hollingworth
Is this about the birds and the bees also? Do you have either honeybees or bumblebees in your area? (I've heard that bee numbers are down in the UK because of colony collapse.) You might need to get out there with a fine paint brush on a warm day and shift pollen across.
If you put coloured ribbon or tape on individual branches you can then shift pollen from one tree onto the blossoms on the marked branches of the other, and self-pollinate on the unmarked branches to see which gives the better result.
I also notice that parts of the UK have had some fairly extreme temperatures quite early in the year. We had a similar burst last year after a massive blossoming of plum trees (and no wind). There was fruit set but the quality was less than magnificent and I put it down to that week of heat.
Light misting, and/or shade cloth for the out-of-season hot spells might help, too.
