My Edible Fruit Trees: Apricot Trees SA

Apricot - Moorpark

Planted: 2021

Qty: 1

Apricot - Moorpark

Comments: - taste of fruit

Fruiting Months January, November, December

Height 5 metres

Growing: In the Ground

Qty: 1

Fruit Harvest: 3 Fruit Per Year

First Fruited: 4 Months from Purchase in Pot

Sun/Shade: Full Sun

Water Given in: Spring

Pollination: Self Pollination

When I Fertilise: Yearly

Organic Status:Partially Organic

Apricot Low Chill

Apricot - Moorpark

Comments: - Hubby loves stone fruit.  One day when we have our grey water system established and shelter for such trees!

Dwarf Apricot - Fireball (Grafted) ^10/10

Comments: - Fruits 6 weeks or more before Moorepark and before birds work out to ransack my garden. Big, fat, flavoursome fruit of vibrant colour. Shades chicken coop and twice the size of the much older Morepark nearby. All Daleys trees do better than those bought locally. Very satisfying being so quick from flower to fruit. My children won't eat apricots (weird) so they are all for me. Bought a preserving unit in anticipation of years ahead. 

Fruiting Months November

Planted: 2011

Height 3.5 metres

Qty: 1

Fruit Harvest: 4 kilograms per Year

First Fruited: 1 Years from purchase in pot

Sun/Shade: Full Sun

Water Given in: Autumn

Pollination: Self Pollination

Fertiliser or Organics Used: Cow manure, blood and bone

When I Fertilise: Spring

Organic Status:Organic

Apricot - Moorpark

Apricot - Moorpark (Grafted) ^7/10

Comments: - Bought locally, and slow to thrive. Half the size of the Daleys Fireball purchased years later. Much loved by birds. May use for preserving with the larger fruited Fireball for fresh eating, 6 weeks earlier. Severely pruned for shape last year. Lots of water given. Promising progress this year. Will invest in bird netting.

Fruiting Months December

Planted: 2008

Height 2.5 metres

Growing: In the Ground

Qty: 1

Fruit Harvest: 5 kilograms per Year

First Fruited: 2 Years from purchase in pot

Sun/Shade: Full Sun

Water Given in: Spring

Pollination: Self Pollination

Fertiliser or Organics Used: Cow manure, blood and bone

When I Fertilise: Spring

Organic Status:Organic

Apricot - Storeys (Early Moorpark) (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

Apricot - Storeys (Early Moorpark) ^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

Apricot - Moorpark (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

Apricot - Moorpark (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? 

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

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.