Peaches/apricots

[zealot]

I need to know, do peaches cross pollinate with apricots? I know both of them can cross with plums, but will they cross pollinate each other? I think the apricot is self pollinating as well; we only have one tree here but it produces a heavy crop.

[pioneergal]

Originally Posted by zealot

I need to know, do peaches cross pollinate with apricots? I know both of them can cross with plums, but will they cross pollinate each other? I think the apricot is self pollinating as well; we only have one tree here but it produces a heavy crop.

I have a friend that has 19 apricot trees and about as many peach trees.
Some of them are very close together ....10 - 15 feet apart... and she has never had a problem with tem cross pollinating.

I have picked fruit from these trees for a number of years and the fruit is great !

[Mountaineer]

Sorry Zealot- I can't help there.
Pioneer gal, cross pollinating actually doesn't change the fruit in any way, other than the seed inside would have different genetic makeup.
Same as... if a brown egged breed rooster mated your white egged breed hen, the hen is still going to lay white eggs. but those white eggs carry babies that'll lay tan/brown eggs....
I'm imagining Zealot is trying to figure out if his trees will set fruit using other breeds as pollen sources.

[Terri]

Apricots have a tendancy to bloom first, which means that by the time the peaches bloom the apricot pollen is usually spent.

[zealot]

Thanks for the explanation; I wanted to know because that is the only fruiting tree of its kind and I wondered of peach trees in the neighborhood would help with pollination. I do have seedlings from the old orchard area, but don't know which are peach and which are apricot although I strongly suspect one to be Apricot, owing to the shape of the tree seedling.

[Terri]

Originally Posted by zealot

Thanks for the explanation; I wanted to know because that is the only fruiting tree of its kind and I wondered of peach trees in the neighborhood would help with pollination. I do have seedlings from the old orchard area, but don't know which are peach and which are apricot although I strongly suspect one to be Apricot, owing to the shape of the tree seedling.

It might be self-pollinating.

Then again, the bees might help. They fly quite a ways, and they are not too carefull when they clean the pollen off so some stray bits might start a few fruits.

[pioneergal]

Originally Posted by Farmer Joe

Sorry Zealot- I can't help there.
Pioneer gal, cross pollinating actually doesn't change the fruit in any way, other than the seed inside would have different genetic makeup.
Same as... if a brown egged breed rooster mated your white egged breed hen, the hen is still going to lay white eggs. but those white eggs carry babies that'll lay tan/brown eggs....
I'm imagining Zealot is trying to figure out if his trees will set fruit using other breeds as pollen sources.