Q. I have many tropical fruit trees that are surrounded by grass and close to competing trees. The fruit trees include avocado, Barbados cherry, carambola, lime, lemon, fig, banana and passion fruit.

Most young fruit trees need at least a few years of growth before they're mature enough to bloom and set fruit. The male flowers on a Sensation box elder add color and beauty to the spring landscape.

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Q: Have you seen a reduced fruit set in plums, apricots and pluots this year or is it just mine? These are 3- to 5-year-old trees and I did not see many flowers at all. Not so much lack of pollination ...

Q: We would appreciate your advice regarding an apple tree. We have one apple tree that is a several years old, which we have fertilized with all-purpose fertilizer, and it has never borne fruit.

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Deciduous and citrus trees generally need to be fertilized three times during the year; in February, May and August. If you missed the August fertilizing, do it now. Apply the same amount of ...

Question: What should we be doing to fruit trees right now? Answer: The early blooming fruit trees have their flower buds and leaf buds swelling right now. Flowering on the early fruit trees will ...