My Edibles: Stone Fruit SA

Apricot - Storeys (Early Moorepark) (Grafted) ^5/10

Comments: - good eating and good for jam

Height 3 metres

Growing: In the Ground

Qty: 1

First Fruited: 2 Years from purchase in pot

Sun/Shade: Full Sun

Water Given in: Spring

Pollination: Self Pollination

When I Fertilise: Spring

Nectarine - White Satin (Grafted) ^5/10

Comments: - best eating fruit for the table

Planted: 2008

Height 2.5 metres

Growing: In the Ground

Qty: 1

First Fruited: 2 Years from purchase in pot

Sun/Shade: Low Sun

Water Given in: Summer

Pollination: Self Pollination

Nectarine - Sunblaze ^5/10

Comments: -

Growing well. Beautiful flowers, didn't set as many fruit as I expected, the fruits that did set were juicy and delicious.

Fruiting Months December

Planted: 2008

Height 1.5 metres

Growing: In the Ground

Qty: 1

First Fruited: 2 Years from purchase in pot

Sun/Shade: Full Sun

Water Given in: Spring

Pollination: Self Pollination

When I Fertilise: When Fruiting and Spring

Organic Status:Partially Organic

Dwarf Peach ^9/10

Comments: -

Plenty of nice peaches most of which the golden retriever picks and eats.

Planted: 2008

Height 0.5 metres

Growing: In a Pot

Qty: 1

First Fruited: 1 Years from purchase in pot

Sun/Shade: Full Sun

Water Given in: Spring

Pollination: Self Pollination

When I Fertilise: When Fruiting and Spring

Organic Status:Partially Organic

Apricot - Storeys (Early Moorepark) ^10/10

Comments: -

Fastest growing tree in my garden. Have to heavily prune as I've planted too close to the house. Beautiful flowers, delicious fruit.

Fruiting Months November and December

Planted: 2008

Height 3 metres

Growing: In the Ground

Qty: 1

First Fruited: 1 Years from purchase in pot

Sun/Shade: Full Sun

Water Given in: Spring

Pollination: Self Pollination

When I Fertilise: When Fruiting and Spring

Peach-Kirkman Late ^9/10

Comments: -

I never thought our first crop this year would ripen. The peaches were small and green for months and all of a sudden within 2 weeks have turned red and are ripening. Taste great! Nice to have fruit so late in the season.

Fruiting Months March

Planted: 2009

Height 1.2 metres

Growing: In the Ground

Qty: 1

Fruit Harvest: 9 kilograms per Year

First Fruited: 2 Years from purchase in pot

Sun/Shade: Full Sun

Pollination: Self Pollination

When I Fertilise: When Fruiting and Spring

Pest Control:

Copper before leaf burst.

Organic Status:Partially Organic

Apricot - Moorepark (Grafted) ^7/10

Comments: -

TASTE home grown fruit picked when ripe & tasted great

tried some apricots from a large supermarket that deals in fresh food    bloody awful. large good looking pale orange fruit when fully ripe ,was watery with no flavour

Fruiting Months January

Planted: 2009

Height 2 metres

Qty: 1

Fruit Harvest: 6 Fruit Per Year

First Fruited: 1 Years from purchase in pot

Sun/Shade: Full Sun

Water Given in: Spring

Pollination: No

Plum - Satsuma (Seedling) ^4/10

Comments: -

My first attempt at espailiering. I think I may have chosen the wrong type of plum as it's not shooting where I predict. Ahh..too ambitious for a novice pruner..Few nice fruit set, but as they were on the lowest wire the dog bumped most of them off.

Planted: 2009

Growing: In the Ground

Pollination: Self Pollination

Pear - Williams ^7/10

Comments: -

Grows rapidly and proud of the shape I've got it to. ( learning to prune still) No flowers as yet. Fingers crossed this year.

Planted: 2009

Height 1.8 metres

Growing: In the Ground

Qty: 1

Pollination: Self Pollination

Organic Status:Partially Organic

Plum-Santa Rosa ^7/10

Comments: -

Growing rapidly and have to prune regularly to prevent it going sky high. Many fruit set, however all but 6 remained til ripe. Not sure why? Looking forward t next year to see what happens. Delicious tasting plums.

Fruiting Months January

Planted: 2009

Height 1.7 metres

Growing: In the Ground

Qty: 1

First Fruited: 2 Years from purchase in pot

Sun/Shade: Full Sun

Water Given in: Spring

Pollination: Self Pollination

Apricot - Moorepark (Grafted) ^9/10

Comments: - Love the taste of fresh apricots!  Love the heart shaped leaves of the tree.  Love that it is not fussy.  Love that it is growing so well and bearing so much fruit this year.

Fruiting Months January

Planted: 2008

Height 3 metres

Growing: In the Ground

Qty: 1

Fruit Harvest: 1 kilograms per Year

First Fruited: 6 Months from Purchase in Pot

Sun/Shade: Medium Sun

Water Given in: Spring

Pollination: No

Fertiliser or Organics Used: Dynamic lifter, Complete Fruit tree fertiliser

When I Fertilise: Spring

Pest Control: None.  Almost daily inspection to prevent problems

Organic Status:Organic

Question:

I haven't pruned it yet and have been surprised by the amazing spring growth.  But now the branches are bending down under the weight of scores of fruit. Being greedy, I thought I'd let it drop the excess fruit at its own discretion, but only a few have fallen.  I will have to support the branches somehow for the next couple of months.  Then I want to do a summer prune as I've heard winter pruning encourages fungal diseases.  (Which is why I didn't prune it earlier)

Last year it had about thirty fruit, six months after planting, but this year it's loaded with them!

My question is:   Should I thin out the fruit which is dotted along the whole length of the branches and causing them to hang horizontally?   Then, when I summer-prune, how hard should I be? 

Plum - Mariposa ^5/10

Comments: -

It has quite a few white flowers at the moment. sprayed with copper fungicide and has grown out of leaf rust. New leaves appear fresh and healthy.

Planted: 2010

Height 50 Centimetres

Growing: In the Ground

Qty: 1

Water Given in: Spring

Pollination: Cross Pollination

Cross Pollinator Variety: satsuma

Fertiliser or Organics Used: cow manure, fish guts

When I Fertilise: Yearly and Spring

Pest Control:

none

Organic Status:Organic

Question:

Apricot - Glengarry ^8/10

Comments: -

Full of flowers now, hope the birds will leave some fruits for us this year.

A graceful tree and extremely healthy. The tree is quite tall so no fruit has been picked. The birds dropped some fruits with some of them barely touched. I couldn't resist to pick it up and have a task. Oh, it was so sweet and tasty. Wish I were a bird. But, considering it provides nice afternoon shade in summer and beautiful blossoms in spring, I am not going to prune it back.

Fruiting Months January, February, December

Height 6 metres

Qty: 1

Sun/Shade: Low Sun

Water Given in: Summer

Pollination: No

When I Fertilise: Never

Pest Control:

pest free

Apricot - Trevatt ^8/10

Comments: -

Large juicy fruit, mid season, great flaour.

Sun/Shade: Full Sun

Water Given in: Spring

Apricot - Hunter (Grafted) ^8/10

Comments: -

Latest of all the APricots. Nice acid finish

Growing: In the Ground

Sun/Shade: Full Sun

Water Given in: Spring

Governors Plum - seedling ^10/10

Comments: -

Can anyone send a seedling

Plum - Satsuma ^10/10

Comments: -

One of my favourites, does anyone have any seeds for sale

Peach - Aztec Gold ^10/10

Comments: -

I am wanting to purchase any peach seeds for growing

Pear - Corella ^10/10

Comments: -

Keen to find some seeds to grow

Pear - Williams ^3/10

Comments: -

This is actually an old seeding tree, similar shape fruit to that of williams. Definitely a decendent of a European pear.The tree is about 6m tall and slightly infested with pear slug worm. It bears heavily, but the biggest fruits are all on the top of the tree, making it impossible to pick and the birds always get them first. I covered some fruits with newspaper on the lower branches. But very disappointing, the fruit is very very sweet, almost too stweet, and the texture is very dry and hard, not very pleasant to eat. I don't know if it has anything to do with watering because I didn't give it any water even during the harsh Adelaide summer. Anyway, I am going to cut it back to waist high in winter and multi-graft it with nashi Nijiseiki and Kosui.

Height 6 metres

Growing: In the Ground

Pollination: No

When I Fertilise: Never

Pest Control:

none

Plum - Satsuma

Height 1.2 metres

Growing: In a Pot

Peach Late Italian Red ^10/10

Comments: -

I like this peach, which I grew at my previous place, as it flowers so late that it misses most of the spring rain and gets less curly leaf. Lovely firm sweet peach that ripens about Easter, clingstone

Growing: In the Ground

Sun/Shade: Full Sun

Water Given in: Spring

Mango - Bowen ^8/10

Height 2 metres

Growing: In the Ground

Qty: 1

Apricot ^9/10

Comments: -

8 trees, Newcastle Early, Oullin's Early, Moorpark, Trevatt, and selected seedlings.  A range of ripening times over 12 weeks.  Apricots do well here with very little extra water.

Fruiting Months October, November, December

Height 3 metres

Qty: 8

First Fruited: 2 Years from purchase in pot

Sun/Shade: Full Sun

Water Given in: Winter

Pruned By: 10% in Spring

Pollination: Self Pollination

Fertiliser or Organics Used: wood ash, seaweed, compost.

When I Fertilise: Winter

Pest Control:

Must net to beat rainbow lorikeets.

Nectarine

Mango - Nam doc mai ^8/10

Comments: -

So far so good,has acclimatised well,still in pot.Am planning to put in ground this warm season.Has already shown substantial new growth.

Peach - Flordagold ^10/10

Comments: -

doing well

Planted: 2005

Height 4 metres

Growing: In the Ground

Sun/Shade: Full Sun

Davidson Plum - NSW

Peach - Tasty Zee

Peach - China Flat