Lidl fruit trees ??

[The Griff]

Lidl have got fruit trees in today and I thought I would try a peach, it says "prunus persica" and " rakoniewiecka" on the box and label.
After a quick google as far as I can make out this just means a peach tree and the rakoniewiecka means the root stock.

Any other ideas what variety it is or gas anyone else bought one ?

[Guest]

No telling. I did try to get info from their customer services but the long and short of it is they are not fussed as they tend to sell them quickly.

My message:-


You show as having a range of fruit trees on offer from thursday. Please could you let me know what varieties there are and what root stocks these are on. Especially in regards to apples as I have just had to remove several that were on MM106 and found that, that particular root stock is not deemed particularly suitable for growing in East Anglia by several organisations. I appreciate your trees are well priced however I do not wish for the trees to be doomed from the outset.

Their response:-

Re: Fruit Trees Apple, Pear, Plum, Peach and Cherry Trees

Thank you for taking the time to contact me regarding the above.

I can advise that the item you are enquiring about will be on sale at all stores in your area from 19th February 2015. Due to a fast turnover and potential delays involved in receiving enquiries, I am unable to provide accurate stock information or reserve products via email.

I recommend that you visit your local store to purchase the item you want. Promotional products are available whilst stocks last in our stores.

I hope that this information is helpful to you and that you find the item you are looking for.

Yours sincerely,
For and on behalf of Lidl UK GmbH


Maya Tariq
Customer Service

Oh well, what can I say. Thank you Aldi for having decent customer service and going out of your way to answer my question. It might not match what I have bought but I would rather you have my money than Lidl

[The Griff]

The apples, pears, cherries and plums all had the varieties on the box, there was only 2 peach trees among them and I presumed the variety was " rakoniewiecka" as that's what's written on the box in the same place on the peach as the other fruit box's of which I recognised some varieties. When I have googled "rakoniewiecka" it seems to be the root stock, I can't see where it has been grafted although it's about 2 and a half feet in length and has buds forming up the full length of it. I hope I havn't just bought a peach root stock?

[Fruits For Life]

Lidil peach tree.

Hello,

So I bought this peach tree this morning as it was cheap as chips lol. Anyway I did a bit of research on this variety. My polish neibhour told me that this is a polish peach variety and it's very cold hardy as you would imagine growing a peach in Poland would need to be cold resistant. So Rakoniewieca is a peach variety and as it's very resistant to cold, it's widely been used as a seedling rootstock in Europe. It's not very popular in Britain as we have more modern rootstocks like Montecarlo etc. I hope this help, but I would definitely avoid other lidil fruit trees unless you have acres of land. I just don't want to end up with M25 Apple tree even tho it's more likely to be M26. But peach tree for £3.99 is very good value for money.

[ioan]

Anyone familiar with the cherry tree varieties for sale at lidl.
I had a good mooch through but couldn't make much off what I was looking at.
i googled one variety called riven, drew a blank on that one.
the others where european in origin, I think?
let me know if you think there are any gooduns in there.
kind regards
olan

[The Griff]

Hello,

So I bought this peach tree this morning as it was cheap as chips lol. Anyway I did a bit of research on this variety. My polish neibhour told me that this is a polish peach variety and it's very cold hardy as you would imagine growing a peach in Poland would need to be cold resistant. So Rakoniewieca is a peach variety and as it's very resistant to cold, it's widely been used as a seedling rootstock in Europe. It's not very popular in Britain as we have more modern rootstocks like Montecarlo etc. I hope this help, but I would definitely avoid other lidil fruit trees unless you have acres of land. I just don't want to end up with M25 Apple tree even tho it's more likely to be M26. But peach tree for £3.99 is very good value for money.

That is very helpful info, thanks.
Any idea if it's self pollinating and what sort of height the rakoniewiecka root stock tends to grow to?
Thanks again

[Bigmallly]

Rakoniewieca is an area in Poland known for growing Peaches & Mushrooms:Powiat Grodzisk Wielkopolski | Rakoniewice

The Peach normally sourced is Red Haven & the Cherries Morello & Stella. This is going back to previous sales.

[owenldn]

Hello everyone,

Did anyone make a note of the plum and pear trees they had? I stupidly threw away the package before I got home and now just have 3 sticks with no labels!

I know one of the plums is called "Cacanska Lepotica" as had to google it before i left the shop- but no idea about the other plum and the pear- it wasnt the conference pear if thats any help.

Many thanks!

[veggiechicken]

Taste of this one doesn't sound too appealing!
Search NFC

[Thelma Sanders]

googled one variety called riven, drew a blank on that one

Could it have been River? There's a cherry called Early Rivers
Early Rivers cherry trees for sale | Buy online | Friendly advice

[Paulieb]

Hello everyone,

Did anyone make a note of the plum and pear trees they had? I stupidly threw away the package before I got home and now just have 3 sticks with no labels!

I know one of the plums is called "Cacanska Lepotica" as had to google it before i left the shop- but no idea about the other plum and the pear- it wasnt the conference pear if thats any help.

Many thanks!

Clapp's Favourite?

I bought an Idared apple and a clapp's favourite pear.

After googling when I got home appears Idared is almost certain to suffer from canker. But for £8 they'll be a useful addition to my new orchard.

[Kristen]

That is very helpful info, thanks.
Any idea if it's self pollinating ...

Fruit trees that are self pollinating perform better if pollinated (by a different variety, not just another tree of same variety), so worth considering a pollinator. If you have neighbours with suitable fruit trees (or a Crab Apple, in the case of Apple trees) the bees visiting them, and yours, should do the job for you

I know I've said this many, MANY times already this season so I apologise for repeating myself ... but I am really struggling to understand why folk are buying these rootstock-unknown, variety-unheard-of, pollination-uncertain (and, given other peoples posts from previous years, "might not be even what the label said it should be") plants just because they are a bargain.

I get utterly cheesed off when I sow seed an annual and it has been mislabelled and turns out to be something else (it happens of course ... thankfully not often). Last year I got Dwarf French instead of Climbing French ... and which were Yellow instead of Green.

I would be exceptionally fed up if I planted a tree, waited a few years and then found the fruit tasted awful, or was not what I wanted ... or waiting 10 years and then found the rootstock was wrong and I had a monster tree on my hands (or a tiddler that was hard to look after and get to fruit well because it was grafted onto the smallest-of-the-small dwarfing rootstock)

I've got some really nice coal here, if anyone from Newcastle wants to buy some ...

[Fruits For Life]

Rakoniewieca is an area in Poland known for growing Peaches & Mushrooms:Powiat Grodzisk Wielkopolski | Rakoniewice

The Peach normally sourced is Red Haven & the Cherries Morello & Stella. This is going back to previous sales.

Hello , yes you are absolutely right. It is the name of a place in Poland, however there is a variety called Rakoniewieca aswell, probably developed in that particular area. Please see link below . Its in polish so you might have to use google translate.
Brzoskwinia Rakoniewicka


Thanks
Vinny

[Fruits For Life]

That is very helpful info, thanks.
Any idea if it's self pollinating and what sort of height the rakoniewiecka root stock tends to grow to?
Thanks again

Hello ,Peach and nectarine cultivars do not require cross pollination and set satisfactory crops with their own pollen. A single peach or nectarine tree can, therefore, be expected to bear crops in the home landscape if flower buds or flowers are not killed by low temperatures .It grows up to 4 meters. I grow my peach trees 60 litre containers .

Thanks Vinny

[yummersetter]

Got to agree with Kirsten . . I think also of the space taken up for a decade, when a really good tree from a caring nursery could have been there, and earned its higher purchase price. Trouble is, when you decide to replant in 2025, that nursery may have gone out of business because everyone's planted supermarket trees and either put up with the limited choice they had or got disillusioned with growing fruit.