A Gardeners Forum Forums General Discussion The Food Garden Forum Fruit Forum First fruit blossom questions

The first two pictures are of my Asian Pear tree and the second two are of my Nectarine Tree.

I bought these tree's from a nursery and this is them in the ground about a week after they've been planted.

Since I have no clue how the fruiting process of a tree works... Should I pull these mini fruits off of the tree? Or are they actually growing? I feel like it's a bit to early in the year for these types of trees to be fruiting. I guess they had to have flowered or there wouldn't be fruit, but I don't know.

Is there a chance that these trees will bloom again or is the fruit that I have on the tree what I'm going to have all year?

What's there now is basically all you'll get, if there are not too many in any given spot, they have a chance of maturing, it won't hurt the tree overall to let some ripen, but don't be disappointed if the fruit don't mature or get attackked by insects. Most fruit trees don't really produce for a couple of years, and then only sparcely, just watch what happens and learn from that.

Once they get to the point where it will produce... Will the tree flower first? Or did that already happen and I missed it because it was at the sellers shop?

yes they flower first.

In the life-cycle of an angiosperm plant (a "higher" plant, so not mosses, not pine trees), the flowering comes before fruit production.

When the plant flowers, pollen (the male gamete, like sperm in animals) from the male parts of the flower is delivered (by beas, wind, etc.) to the female parts of the flower, and goes down a tube to the ovary. This is pollination. When the male & female gametes fuse, it's fertilization (think sperm + egg). The result is an embryo. The embryo is contained within a seed. The fruit is the non-seed tissue associated the seed. There are lots of different ways this plays out. Your pear is a simple, fleshy fruit called a pome. The nectarine is a simple freshy fruit called a drupe. Strawberries are aggregate fruits. Tomatoes are simple fleshy fruits called berries! And so on. Classification factors in the type of flower arrangement, how the ovules of each flower associate with one another (if they do)... .

Botanically speaking, you can't have a fruit w/o a flower. (Which brings us to your baby squash problem. These may be fruits that formed without pollination & fertilization, which sometimes happens. But there'd be no mature embryo within the fruit.)

So what you're saying is that these would be seedless if they were formed without pollination?