Beginner Gardening: Problem with Anjou Pear Tree, 1 by amacgillivray

amacgillivray wrote:
Hello everyone. Last year I had a gardener plant four new fruit trees (about 5 feet tall), one of which is an Anjou pear. I followed his instructions for care of adjacent soil and have kept the soil moist as we are now moving into our dry season. I took all baby fruit and flowers off the trees last year. This Anjou was by far the heaviest producer. I didn\'t count, but I think I removed hundreds of teensy pears.

This year, they trees have few flowers and almost no fruit (not sure why but fewer bees is part of the fruit problem). Everything looks normal on the other three trees. On this one, all flowers look like the photo (crisp, dead, brown). The gardener (organic, permaculture...) did spray them with an organic spray (sorry I don\'t know what it was but I asked if it was the sulphur/oil spray and he said no. I did not notice if this problem happened in association with the spraying, but it seems unlikely.

Apologies for the rotated photo; not sure how that happened.

Would greatly appreciate any insights you may have.