The Accidental Smallholder Forum
Growing => Fruit => Topic started by: VEG on February 01, 2015, 02:33:00 pm
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As in the title a range of fruit trees due in on I think thursday. I bought a load last year and will get more this year at £3.99 cant go wrong.
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Picked up another 6 for my expanding orchard they really are good looking trees.
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Lots in Tescos today too, that looked pretty good, albeit a bit more expensive at £8 each.
The apples included 'Discovery', which is a lovely variety.
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Ooh, I love Discovery. I have one already but could manage to eat more. I don't have space for full size trees though. All mine are on dwarf rooting stock.
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Discovery are my favourite apples too, so a nicely shaped tree *may* have inadvertantly fallen into my shopping basket yesterday without me noticing.
There aren't any details on the rootstock or even pollination group. However, it does say final height 10ft, which must make it an M26 or similar?
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Really? Feet not metres? I think I need to go shopping. Are they bare-rooted or in pots?
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Bare rooted, just the same as the Aldi ones. You may have to rummage to find a good one, but there were plenty in Tesco Extra in Perth on Friday.
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We bought plumb, pear, apple & cherry trees in pound stretchers today £5.99 per tree, bare root, at least 6ft each! Ayr branch!....pardon the pun :innocent:
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Small fruit trees in Lidl today named varieties of apples, pears, cherries, plums. £3.99
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Well all the trees i planted have started to leaf up some in flower as well
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I got three lidl ones and they're leafing up a treat :)
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Taking of saplings etc be prepared to get some fleece or a white sheet over the saplings if they are in flower , if the temp in your area is forecast to drop to 3 oC or below.
As that's when ice starts to form , by 0 oC it is fully solid and the damage will have been done in most case if the low temp has existed for more than two & a half hours .
four years ago I purchased two four year old Aldi Russet apple trees ( now in full bloom & partly pollinated ) and two Aldi four year old Victoria plum trees.
True to form the apple trees have started to show serious blossom after the seventh year .. the plums have yet to decide what they are going to do
I got two of each saplings for my experience has made me understand that a self pollinating tree is not always such an item .
In a couple of years time Ii will also try my hand at grafting some 9 inch long sicons between each variety so that if there is a slight time lag in them both blossoming there should be the best chance of things being able to be pollinated
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Most of the trees in flower have been covered in bees so i dont think pollination will be a problem here.