Or annual fruiting patterns in the trees. My Italian plums only bear
significant fruits about every other year. I know there are apple trees -
like Gravensteins - that only bear every other year.

Connie
Connie.bickerton at verizonbusiness.com
Bainbridge Is

Josh wrote:
I've been out of town, so I'm coming late to this thread, but I noticed last
summer (2005) that the plum trees along the alleyway behind our house bore
zero fruit, which came as a great disappointment to my son, who loves those
Japanese plums.

I was afraid it was a problem with the trees, which seemed to have had a
decent flowering. This year, however, the trees are covered with plums as
usual. This makes me think that they just didn't get pollinated last year;
we live in North Seattle. (The apple trees in the neighborhood had terrible
fruit set last summer as well. Pollination problems? Or temperature stress?)