Nectarines.

I have a small problem with my nectarine tree.

It produces fruit which ripens. So far so good, I gave it a good feed this spring, but the problem is in the picture.

 

I'll have a pint, same as yours!!!!

root stock problem?

 

Looks to me like a cherry. Or have I missed a joke somewhere. :D

 

Cherries aren't that small.

Here are two of my nectarines next to a cherry.

They taste good and have a proper little nectarine stone.

 

Wild cherries are small.
The stalk of the fruit is too long for a nectarine and the leaves look like cherry to me.

 

It tastes like a nectarine and has a pointy stone.

You're right about the stem and the leaves, I hadn't thought about that.

It was sold to me as a peach.

Strange.

Just had a google. You're right it's a wild cherry, doesn't look or taste like a cherry though.

Blimey, for the last five years I've been bringing it in for winter and having to squeeze past it. :rolleyes:

[ 03. August 2005, 09:57 PM: Message edited by: Rich ]

 

I'm dubious about buying fruit trees. I bought my mum a nectarine tree as a mothers day present one year, and it produced peaches (not quite as surprising as wild cherries admittedly) then it promptly caught a nasty disease and died.

Do you get much fruit off your tree?

 

Rich, if it was a peach or nectarine you didn't need to bring it in for the winter, they're completely hardy.
Same family though Rich, so it is close, enjoy the spring blossom.

 

This year I got lots of blossom, but only three fruits.

Thr blossom is very early, certainly before the Victoria plum.

 

Rich - its a result of the root stock taking over - fruits like nectarines & peaches are inevitably grafted onto smaller root stock which is often another member of the prunus family (cherries etc.), so what probably happened is that the original graft was weakened & may have died off leaving the root stock to develop strongly.

[ 05. August 2005, 01:11 AM: Message edited by: Bayleaf ]

 

my fuit tree has never had any problems about it, as for your nectarines im sure they will grow after time...