I had a garden with both peach (1974-1999) and apricot trees(1984-1999). The
peach fruited very year from 1976, one year I had 80 fruit-excellent. Once
the peach (Peregrine) had set fruit, it would hold on to them in spite of
cold blustery weather.
The apricot flowered earlier, making frost protection and polination more of
a problem. It set fruit most years but dropped most of it when the weather
was cold and blustery in May. We had a good crop of very flavoursome
apricots one year, when the weather was warm and sunny through May after a
cold winter. Otherwise we had up to 3 fruit a year not of particularly good
quality.
Location was Cheshire near Chester.
Regards
David T.
"Sue & Bob Hobden" wrote in message
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"Jonathan wrote in message
Plenty of hard green fruit on our two year old fan-trained apricot on a
south-facing wall. There is also a *lot* of leaf which hides almost all
of them.

Any tips on how to encourage the fruits to ripen? Should we thin them
out and if so to what sort of spacing?

Lucky you. In fifteen years I have only once had a crop with a similar
tree.
The small fruits always fall off when they are the size of a pea. Any
ideas? We
usually get a good crop off the peach next to it.
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We had one for years that only ever had 3 ripe fruit on it and it
eventually
got struck by lightening whilst we were on holiday. (Served it right!)
:-)

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Bob

www.pooleygreengrowers.org.uk/ about an Allotment site in
Runnymede fighting for it's existence.