I have a three year old Flavourcot apricot, any advice as to how I can get it to set fruit this year? I had five flowers last year, all lost in a late, windy spring day. I live in East Anglia.
You will need to protect flowers from wind and frost, and also need to pollinate flowers on apricots, peach and nectarine with a soft brush. If bees aren't around to pollinate flowers then you really must transfer pollen from flower to flower yourself. Good luck!
can anyone help? We pruned our bramley tree over the winter, rather radically! It has produced a lot of whippy new growth called water sprouts i think? What do we do now? Some say prune all the new growth off, others, leave it all on and selectively reduce . ????? thanks!
I love the blossom on apple trees, my tree was cut down in 1976 but the stump was left in the ground and quickly grew up again, loads of blossom every year but the apples are rubbish, planted a small tree purchased from woolies 3years ago no idea what it is but it flowers each year no apples yet but this week full of blossom again,I used to have a wonderful Apricot tree that got quiet big and always cropped well how ever one year it cropped to well and the excess weight felled the tree. am just waiting for a compact variaty to arrive see how I go with that.
Its nice to hear that your Spartan apple tree has had a heavy crop. We too have a Spartan tree on our allotment and the crop as been really heavy, did not thin them enough in the summer so the apples are smaller than expected. Will thin them more next year so we get bigger apples as Spartan is a heavy cropper. Just glad that they store well so we don't have to eat then all in one go.
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