I assumed that was the case and I plan to thin the fruit severely next
year to try to break the cycle. Thanks for confirming this.

-Bob


David J. Braunegg wrote:

> 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.
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