In reply to Toerag:
> I suspect it's because you pruned it hard, I think you're not supposed to prune everything at once but spread the pruning over 2-4 seasons... What variety is yours?
The one that hasn't flowered hasn't been pruned hard, just a gentle shaping and snipping off of the spindly growth. It produced an epic crop for its size last year, I had to support the branches with cane and string despite thinning the apples.
The newest one that has barely produced leaves yet has flowered, that one was brutally pruned to espalier it and it's root ball was disturbed while we were planting it so I'm not surprised it's not happy yet. I'm not too worried about that, it'll get going next year if it survives winter.
I can't remember the established one is Laxton's Superb I think, I can't remember what the new one is off the top of my head.
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