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    Hi all,being envious from all who managed to grab a fruit tree from woolies!!i went ther from work and managed to buy a nectarine lord napier.the reality now is i don't know what to do with it! i suppose it has to go on a pot.any advice on what pot size and type of compost is most welcomed .i have unheated green house ,so does it need to be there or outside? please any advice is welcome.g
    goddess

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    I have a peach on my lawn. It throws out fruit like an apple tree and is only 6 years old. Therefore I would always try to plant in soil. Some of the nectarines you see in the garden centres have been pruned to be grown in pots or in small spaces, but they really don't fruit half as much as they could have if they were grown differently.

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    • #3
      Hi - I've grown a nectarine from a stone and after 4 months it's about 2 ft high in a 6 inch pot, with half a dozen leaves, inside on a windowsill. I heard them saying on Gardener's Question Time that nectarine's - and peaches - are quite hardy, though I won't put mine out til late Spring. If it's fairly mature, an unheated greenhouse would be fine for the rest of the winter, but it seems the best thing is to train it up a sunny wall 'espalier' style, forcing the branches out in a fan. Oh, and they don't need pollinating either, like apples, so you'll get fruit from just one.

      Hope my new found knowledge helps you ; )
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      • #4
        Nectarines, peach and apricots are indeed hardy but unfortunately the blossom, which tends to come early is not. Both of my apricots are in pots, one is espaliered against a south facing wall and the other is in a big pot to enable it to be moved in and out of a polytunnel easilly.

        Both are potted in John Innes number 3 in 25 Litre pots. I agree with greenlung that most are self fertile BUT the blossom can come before many pollinating insects are about and if like me you bring them undercover to protect the blossom from frost, any that are about cannnot get at the blossom to fertilize them resulting, quite often, in a disapointing crop. To get around this I pollinate by hand using a small soft artists brush.

        Once the danger of frosts has passed the tree comes out into the sunshine.

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