Re: Apricot advice

on 1/21/06 2:32 PM, N Sterman at TalkingPoints@PlantSoup.Com wrote:
 
> I have an apricot tree that has been in the ground for at least 9
> years.  It has a lovely shape, but in all that time, has produced
> probably 6 fruit.  I am in an intermediate climate between coastal
> and inland San Diego (probably sunset zone 23) and this tree sits in
> a cool spot in my yard.

Nan,

I suspect you are a bit too close to the coast to provide the period of
temperatures below freezing to set apricot blossoms.  Does the tree bloom
regularly?  If so, you have a pollination problem.  If not, it just needs
more cold.

Even in the Hall garden in Pasadena (actually, next door, but it hangs over
the wall from the neighbor) it blooms and sets a crop one year in about ten.
Since apricots usually live only about twenty years or so, this may not be
worth the space.

John MacGregor
South Pasadena, CA 91030
USDA zone 9   Sunset zones 21/23
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