Apricot stone on a pot! Advice, please.

[Italiangreyhound]

Hi, I am new to this section, but an old timer on Mumsnet.

About 2 months ago I had the most delicious apricot ever! I saved the stone and it grew into a plant!

What do I do now. Put in a larger pot? Put in the garden? Keep in the house?

Advice, please.

If you’re in the southern half of the country then I’d grow it outside. Somewhere sunny and sheltered with plenty of space. Be aware of two things though:

• fruit trees are normally propagated by grafting (cutting a shoot off a tree that you know grows good fruit and splicing it onto another sapling). This means that if you grow a tree from a stone it won’t necessarily give you fruit that tastes like the fruit it came from.

-the uk climate is not great for growing apricots (too cold, especially in spring when the tree is setting fruit) so don’t expect a massive crop. The flowers are vulnerable to frost.

Well done for getting it to grow though! They’re nice trees.

If you have a sunny wall, try that.

www.rhs.org.uk/advice/grow-your-own/fruit/apricots

Also

www.gardena.com/uk/garden-life/garden-magazine/grow-your-own-apricots-in-a-planter/

SergeantPfeffer thank you. I am not 100% sure it is an apricot because I had two pits and put them in two pots. One grew grass! So I am guessing it was in the soil. So this may be a random!

Will report to big pot outside.

As I am getting older and finding kids and pets hard work, I am drawn to growing things!

Ceilingrose interesting. This was like no other apricot I've tasted. So I do hope it works.

I've heard there is a UK village famous for growing apricots, Aynho!

www.northamptonchron.co.uk/news/fruity-tales-of-the-apricot-village-1-898158

Sounds like they like chalky soil! And definitely not my dads heavy clay He has had 2 apricots in 5 years but we are quite far north.

I get immense pleasure from growing things, there’s nothing more exciting than watching all your plantscoming up in spring