[Trikidiki]

"What is in a name? that which we call a rose
By any other name would smell as sweet"

I might have bought one of the same batch of Bramleys. It hasn't grown much and the few fruits it has produced didn't look like Bramleys. I had put the size down to the fact I had planted it near to a willow just over the plot boundary and it probably being a dwarf stock. The Golden Delicious  bought at the same time is further away and is no taller but stockier and produced so much fruit last year that even after two lots of thinning it broke two limbs under the weight of apples.
All the other trees I bought at the same time are performing as expected.

Have you considered 'ring-barking' your plum?

[mrsbean]

Was at aldi yesterday, fruit trees looked healthy. A chap turned up, looked like he had just come from digging, wearing clogs and covered in mud. He spent ages checking everyone out, untill he was happy with his choice. OH was cross because i wanted to see if he bought. Called it nosey. I called it a survey.

[fallen angel]

Ok I have had a quck google but need to leave soon so am getting in a flap lol.

I want to buy some of these trees this afternoon but I can't work out what ones I can have that do not need another to produce fruit?

How can I tell? What should I look for on the label?

Many thanks.

P.s I was hoping to but a granny smith, plum and cherry.

[fallen angel]

Ok from what I can gather I can get a granny smith and a stanley plum but the 2 cherry trees are sterile and can't pair with each other.

Fingers crossed aldi have what I'm looking for and they turn out to be what the label says :-)

[m1ckz]

i got 4 yesturdat  2 apple a pear and a cherry     got home an read the lable    cherry was a sour cherry   anyone know what this means   ty

[snowdrops]

i got 4 yesturdat  2 apple a pear and a cherry     got home an read the lable    cherry was a sour cherry   anyone know what this means   ty

It means you need to cook the cherries before you eat them & add sugar unless of course you like the insides stripping from your mouth 😄😄, I don't like over sweet things but boy are they sour. I've got a morello cherry that is a sour cherry, absolutely lovely in jams,syrup etc.

[m1ckz]

ok thanks    may discard that 1 then  lol

[Goneterseed]

The cherry that I got from Aldi is Hedelfinger which is a sweet cherry.
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Hedelfinger-Cherry-Self-Fertile-Ready-Fruit-Dark/dp/B00FKUUI5W

[Trikidiki]

ok thanks    may discard that 1 then  lol

If you are discarding it, would you mind cutting off a couple of 'twigs' I could use as scions, I am grafting lots of fruit this year.

[Trikidiki]

...........but the 2 cherry trees are sterile and can't pair with each other.

Don't give up on them, I'm sure if you look around there will be more cherries around your area which may be close enough to be pollinators, remember bees will forage over 1.5 miles and when the cherries are in blossom there may not be much else for them to forage in the area so they my be visiting lots of cherries.

Failing that you could always buy some suitable cherry scions online and graft onto one of the trees you have bought.

[fallen angel]

I'v not seen any cherry trees around and I don't have many neighbours so I will wait and see if I can find one that doesn't need another or failing that a pair for each other 

[m1ckz]

trikidiki
yes i think i can get u a few twigs 

[Trikidiki]

I'v not seen any cherry trees around and I don't have many neighbours so I will wait and see if I can find one that doesn't need another or failing that a pair for each other 

What varieties are they, I may have one that would be a pollinator and could send you a bit to try grafting.

[snowdrops]

ok thanks    may discard that 1 then  lol

That would be a shame they really are lovely when cooked, think pie,crumble or even ice cream, wait for
Mrs Bee to come along she'll have loads of recipes at her finger tips.

[fallen angel]

I'v not seen any cherry trees around and I don't have many neighbours so I will wait and see if I can find one that doesn't need another or failing that a pair for each other 

What varieties are they, I may have one that would be a pollinator and could send you a bit to try grafting.

Thank you that's very kind but I wouldn't have a clue how to do that or where to start.