Pruning Pears and apples

hi all I need to pick your collective brains.
My pear tree only has 3 fruit on and my apples have a few more but not a huge amount.

Could you give me some pruning advice on how to encourage more flowers for next year

Here are a couple of pics from today..



Cheers James

 

My pear tree (cordon) has no fruit this year

 

How old is it?
Can only say horizontal branches bear fruit, verticals just grow upwards.
So tie down those new growths.
Must admit I dont know much about pears, but with apples you can prune in late summer for more fruit on spur bearing apples.

 

Yes, tie down verticals except for main stem.

For fruit, summer prune in late July early August.....do this by cutting shoots from tied down branches to 3 or 4 buds to create "spurs". It may be a little early for this year though. By cutting back like this in late summer you are encouraging the tree to produce less growth and more fruiting wood. This applies to the pears

If the apples are spur bearers then do exactly the same Jimb0b.

Aim to produce an espalier tree.......a tier of lateral branches on bottom wire, the primary/leading branch untouched to later be pruned to form another level of horizontal branches on the next wire and so forth. The plan is to build up additional tiers every year until alloted space is occupied. A very productive system but be patient......better to produce shaped growth rather than early fruit.