My guess is, it's the year for a rest, most apples are biannual.

thanks, Konrad, but it's unlikely that the apple tree is taking a year off: it didn;t have any fruit last year either! yet it had blossoms and fruit the year I bought it...so it's mature enough to bloom.

why is my tree not blooming?

If it was in a pot when you purchased it I have a thought. I think pots can make a tree flower young. There is limited room for the roots so the tree puts energy into making fruit instead of new wood. After you transplanted it, it would have freed up the roots to grow and caused the tree to grow wood instead of fruit. Give it some time it will mature.

hmm, you could be right. Yes, it was in a pot. Okay, I guess I'll just have to be patient (not one of my strengths!). Maybe give the tree another year before I replace it. I have so little space in my terraced garden that every square foot is precious ...

thanks!
Chris

I have a semi dwarf macoun And it just started blooming today. The golden delicious next to it looks like it's close to blooming also. My macoun is in it's third year in my garden. It is loaded with flowers and i've read it needs to be thinned to get a good size crop of apples. If not thinned out Macoun can be biennial. It's one of my favorite apples so I'm excited to get an apple off of it this year.