Cherry blossoms but no harvest: tricks to get a tree covered with berries
The abundant flowering of the cherry trees gives us hope for a good harvest, but when it comes to ripening the fruits, it turns out that there are too few of them.
Let's try to figure out why the cherry tree stops bearing fruit.
First of all, you need to make sure that there is a pollinator variety nearby.
It turns out that there are many self-sterile varieties of cherry trees - a gardener should know that cherry trees belong to the category of cross-pollinated trees.
Take self-fertile varieties - "Mayak", "Lyubskaya", "Gorkanskaya", "Shokoladnitsa" and so on.
Your cherry tree may have been taken from a root sucker, which may not bear fruit. This is because it is taken from a grafted tree – only the crown will bear fruit.
Conclusion: take only those cherries that grow on their own roots.
Late frosts that come in spring or even summer – sometimes during flowering there is a cold snap and even sub-zero temperatures. Throw a lot of snow under the tree and compact it to delay flowering.
