apple trees (golden delicious)

I bought 2 dwarf golden delicious apple trees from an excellent nursery about 5 years ago. They promised I had one male and one female. They have never produced one apple between them. I have fed them, I have sprayed them. They are alive, but now, they aren't really even flowering. I had them pruned. In short, I'm at wit's end. Anyone got any good ideas? Another tree? How would I know it's the right sex. At this point, I feel like pulling them and starting all over again - with a pear tree.

Thanks in advance for any advice.

Your nursery gave you bad information--apples don't come in male and female. Some apples require a second tree for best fruit production (although I think you usually do best if the second tree is a different cultivar), but I believe that Golden Delicious is self-fruitful so you should be able to get fruit even with just one tree. The real trouble here seems to be the lack of flowering--if you don't get flowers then you can't possibly get fruit. Some trees take a little while to get going, so especially if these were really small when you bought them they may take a few years before they really flower well and start to produce fruit. Pruning could also be part of the problem--if you had them pruned at the wrong time it might have prevented flowering. Also--what zone are you in? I think most apples require some chill hours to fruit well so if you're in a tropical climate that could be the problem too. If none of those are the problem, then I'd look to the cultural conditions--are the trees getting enough sun? Enough but not too much water? Enough but not too much fertilizer? (too much high nitrogen fertilizer can also cause green growth at the expense of blooms)

Also when did you spray them and with what?

I live in Texas, & I ordered & received 2 cherry trees. The nursery I ordered them from did not say anything about weather or not these trees will grow in Texas. Do Nurserys usually sell their trees to places that they know won't grow, or do they just sell them & wish us luck?

If a nursery doesn't know anything about what they are selling don't buy from that nursery.

Cherries do need some winter chill in order to fruit well--if you're in a colder part of TX then you may be OK regardless, but if you're in a warmer area (zone 8-10) then you need to look for cherries with low chill requirements since the others likely won't produce much fruit. Do you know the names of the cultivars that you got? If so you should be able to do a bit of searching and find out whether they're low chill varieties or not. It sounds like you got this mail order? Mail order nurseries sell plants all over the country, so you do sometimes have to do a little homework. A reputable mail order nursery selling cherries would have listed the number of chill hours that the particular variety needs, but then it's up to you to figure out if your area gets enough chill hours or not and not order the plant if you don't get cold enough.