Patio fruit trees

[BUFFS]

From what I have found they are just trees on dwarf rootstock. With that in mind you can plant them in the ground but may struggle to get to a decent size shape/tree as well as decent fruit if the conditions are not good. Again even in a pot they still require a fair amount of attention. Using the word patio usually seems to command a higher price. However there is often offers on them and I think several grapes have bought in the past when on offer.

I got my apricot dwarf tree from the "range"@£6 and it produces more lovely fruit each year, so not all the patio fruit trees are rubbish and at that price it will not break the bank...

[Guest]

^^^I didn't say they were rubbish. I have dwarf peach and nectarine. I have nothing against them

[lookbettertomorow]

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You'll soon have to rename them 'not so dwarf yard trees' :-)
Hate to be a doom merchant but they are quickly becoming unsustainable in a pot, even a big one. The surface area of all those leaves is massive equating to huge transpiration. If they have one more year of unfetted growth I fear one day of missed watering they will rebel, which would be a shame.
Just saying

[BUFFS]

`when my "dwarf" trees have nearly reached the wanted height, I take them out of the tub in December/January, and remove most of the thick roots (same as I do with the bonsai), and this removes the ability to grow large , as large roots supply the big branches (that's as I understand it) and it does seem to work, I have had a red haven peach now for over 5yrs, and it is about thee and a half foot from soil level, and we have a possible 31 fruit that seem to have set this year, and I am doing this with 2 apples in tubs now the branch framework is developing nicely. as I get less mobile I am doing this to more and more of my tubbed fruit trees = no bending and no stretching = happiness..

[Jay22]

No one have any idea about Pear Harvest Green or what to pollinate it with?...thanks!

[Guest]

^^^Sorry, never heard of it. Can you not contact the place you got it from?

[Jay22]

Unfortunately it was Morries, so it's probably a made up tree!