This might be the last chance to get some candy cots. If anyone is in the area and can get some seeds I would be happy to pay for them.
Seeds? They wonât grow into a âCandycotâ tree which you may already know. Itâs a crapshoot what they may grow into regarding fruit quality.
Regardless, apricots make excellent rootstocks for many other stone fruit, so itâd hardly be a waste.
I donât mind taking that gamble since as far as I know scions arenât available. I think the genetics are worth preserving, even if it is just from the seeds.
Iâve planted fruit seeds many times, if I donât like what I get I graft something else on.
If an apricot (or peach?) self-pollinates (we obviously have no idea what did in this case) isnât the offspring usually fairly similar? Or is it still all over the place?
The apricots in the picture look very much like the Anya variety of Candycot. You can purchase two varieties of Candycots from Andyâs Orchard and they will ship them to you (I have done this, and they were excellent).
Anya is one of the varieties.
Most relevant to this post, is the fact that members of this forum have grown Candycot seedlings. You may find this this post especially interesting:
https://growingfruit.org/t/scions-for-sale-anya-seedling-apricots-and-others/32617
While it is true that seedlings are not exact copies of the parent tree, they can be surprisingly close. Especially in the case of the Anya seedlings.
I purchased some Tatiana scions from @Stan and I canât tell them apart from the Anya apricots I got from Andyâs Orchard - except that I can pick them at peak ripeness from my tree - so they are much better in that regard.
I also have two Anya seedlings that I planted before @Stan announced that he was selling scions.
Anyway, tree ripened apricots pushing 30 brix are a real treat!
Here is a post on this yearâs fruit set on my Tatiana grafts:
Just my experience, pits from older âstableâ types of peaches and apricots have been very similar. The newest/latest cultivars of them have given me the most variable, lots of crappy reversions I graft over.