Just an update to this plum-tree post...
I've discovered the cause of my deplorable plumlessness. The neighbors next to us have a very full older plum tree that is just bursting with plums that look exactly the same as my plums. Theirs has borne fruit every year.
Therefore it is not Theory 1, that there was a lack of pollinators.
And it was not Theory 3, that the tree is so old it has started to only produce every 2 years.
By process of elimination, Theory 2 wins, that the landscapers just hacked off so much mass that the tree is still stressed and in survival mode (despite us asking them to not touch the fruit trees). We had to trim the tree again this year because the landscapers did it incorrectly last year... we cut off the branch that was crossing and digging into the other branch, and cut some height off (WHY DID THEY CUT THE WIDTH?! I'm still slightly bitter about my fruit harvest). So I don't even know if we'll have fruit next year either, this poor tree has really had a hard time.
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