If you let an apple tree overbear one year, the next year you can get little
or nothing. This can become an ongoing cycle. You can break this cycle by
culling fruit very early on in the year.

My apologies if you already knew this.

Dave

"zxcvbob" > wrote in message
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> ...
> I have a mature Honey Crisp tree, but it has started blooming only every
> other year. Last year it bloomed so much it looked like a white flowering
> crabapple tree, and it took me a while to figure out where than faint rose
> smell was coming from. So this year, no apples.