It is very unlikely that you have any sort of soil defficiency in a garden in Derby which would affect a Bramley - unless your house is built on an old industrial site. However, with all due respect, I don't think misterbaby's advice is likely to help you much in the UK situation. You can still use that small fruit if you pick it all off and use it to make apple jelly. I agree that you have too much fruit on your young tree and that thinning would be sensible. I'm often surprised how they're able to pull it off.
#Bramley apple tree full#
Apples have some very stringent requirements for full pollination but always seem to manage somehow. My neighbor's Fuji tree last year had no blossoms at all, and this year is so loaded with (poor quality) fruit that branches are breaking off.Īs far as pollination goes, it sounds like you are OK even with the triploid. Bramley is known for heavy production and so warrants careful thinning.
Most trees will often set way too many fruits, and some trees go absolutely overboard. In future years you should do a considerable amount of fruit thinning. I suspect next year that tree will have few if any apples. Apple trees don't necessarily wait until they are ready and able. I wouldn't have even let one apple ripen in the first year, and darn few in the second year. The apples are too small because your tree is too young to support all those apples. Although sometimes you do get the occasional partially pollinated apple that will be lopsided or misshapen. The small size of the apples is not a pollination issue.
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