This looks like transplant stress and aborting fruit set.
Normally you wait a couple of years for fruit set.

Konrad

The trees are 5 - 7 feet tall, about 2-yrs old and have several limbs. The company (Fast Growing Trees) advertise that their trees should give fruit the first year. Is that not true, generally?

I've transplanted mature fruit-bearing apple trees many times, and I've hardly ever seen one bear fruit within a year after transplant. The only exception was with a mature Lodi which bore only 1 apple the first year after transplant, and that single apple was quite deformed. What I've noticed about apples, is if their roots are disturbed at all, they generally won't bear for a year.

If pollination is okay, I'm sure you'll get fruit next year.

Good luck.

Thanks. That's very comforting!

This "Fast Growing Trees" outfit, which sells $30 trees for $120, sounds a little like a new incarnation of one of those Georgia outfits like TyTy or Willis. Heaven forbid.

Don Yellman, Great Falls, VA