The FruitWatch Database
Thank you for visiting FruitWatch To minimise running costs during the dormant season, we have paused the FruitWatch submission pages, which will return live on 1st February 2025. If you spot any blossom in the meantime – we would love to know about it still! Please snap a quick pic, remember the date and location, and upload when the website returns in February!
Fruit trees are highly dependent on insect pollination to produce fruit, and climate change is impacting both the timing of fruit tree flowering and pollinator flight, which could reduce pollination and fruit production. We need your help to understand how fruit trees are changing flowering dates across the UK, and with your help we are gathering data on a range of fruits. Fruits including common fruits such as Apple, Pear, Plum, and Cherry and less common fruits such as Quince, Sloe, Apricot, and Peach.
In the three years of this project, your data has helped us understand improve our predictions of blossom dates, and show how blossom patterns shift across the country. Thanks to your help, we have shown that Conference pears, for example, flower 1.5 days later for each degree of latitude further north.
Figure . Flowering date predictions generated for four fruit varieties, thanks to submissions received through the FruitWatch project.
We want to continue this important research into the future, and really value your continued support! See you in 2025!!