Will my citation sucker bear fruit?

[kygress]

My young apricot died suddenly last spring but now there is a 7’ sucker/tree grown from its citation rootstock? Will this bear fruit? Very pretty.

[sockworth]

Same happened to me 2 years ago. This spring citation flowered nicely but never bore any fruit, despite being surrounded by at least a dozen of other flowering Zaiger stonefruit.

[sockworth]

Here’s a thread with fruit that is potentially citation, but not entirely clear IMO. Let us know if yours actually bear fruit.

Red leafed stone fruit root stock

Two springs ago I had a second year Apricot tree die shortly after leafing out in the spring. A month later from the base of the trunk several shoots popped up that bore red leaves - they looked like the red leaf ornamental plums. I let one grow thinking that it might be a nice ornamental tree near my house, or that I could graft to it later (if I ever get the skill down pat). Last year the tree grew nicely and it had white plum-like flowers, and this year as a larger tree there were more flo…

[eboone]

I was notified of this post due to the link to my old thread. My red leafed tree linked in that post has never been identified as Citation. It continues to bear small slightly fuzzy white fleshed peaches, usually 1 inch in diameter but when thinned by cold weather to a relatively few fruit they were about 1.5 in diameter. The fruit actually taste quite good when ripe.

[kygress]

Thank you for writing. I think I’ll give it a few years to see what happens. It’s so vigorous that it seems a shame to kill it but I do have limited growing room here in Sacramento.