My Goldrush apple has two bloom clusters. It’s newly planted…so I know I should remove them.
I’m tempted…
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You shouldn’t, but it’s hard! I have a brand new nectarine tree, still in it’s nursery pot. I wasn’t able to get it in the ground before it broke dormancy and i’ve been too busy (ie lazy) to dig a new hole for it. It has a bunch of blooms, and like you I’m tempted to see if it will ripen at least one. i didn’t even prune it back like you are supposed to…
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More than likely, they’d drop
I was actually thinking, my tree is delayed by about one to two weeks from local apples, because it was kept in cold storage by the nursery before I planted it.
So there may very well be nothing to pollinate it by the time the blooms open.
I’m letting a 2-year Wolf River fruit (on standard root). Had over 100 blooms…I’ll think to 2 or 3 apples if many set on. A few years back, letting my Niedzwetzkyana have apples the second leaf on M111 was a mistake…as it’s skipped 2 years without a bloom now.
“Thin”