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Ripening apricots
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? |
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Ripening apricots
"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. -- 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!) :-) -- Bob www.pooleygreengrowers.org.uk/ about an Allotment site in Runnymede fighting for it's existence. |
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Ripening apricots
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 ... "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. -- 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!) :-) -- Bob www.pooleygreengrowers.org.uk/ about an Allotment site in Runnymede fighting for it's existence. |
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