Two fruit questions

[Dave2072]

Hello!

Do these buds mean I'm getting blueberries soon?


And should I be cutting off the leaves growing from the bottom of this peach tree?



Thanks!

[veggiechicken]

They're blueberry flower buds but need to be pollinated before you'll see fruit. Its good start though!

The leaves on the peach look like suckers from the rootstock. If they're below the graft, cut them off.

[Dave2072]

When you say they need to be pollinated, do you mean just visited by bees?! There's loads of bees in the garden from a cherry blossom tree so hopefully they've dropped by the blueberry one too!

[BUFFS]

They're blueberry flower buds but need to be pollinated before you'll see fruit. Its good start though!

The leaves on the peach look like suckers from the rootstock. If they're below the graft, cut them off.

pull the rootstock leaves/twigs away as, sometimes, if you just cut then they regrow, but to pull them off should tear away the growth point, that's how I have always understood it anyway,

[BUFFS]

When you say they need to be pollinated, do you mean just visited by bees?! There's loads of bees in the garden from a cherry blossom tree so hopefully they've dropped by the blueberry one too!

if you only have the one plant (I really don't know if they are self fertile), but I would get a kiddies small soft paintbrush and gently stroke inside each flower. I do this with my peach and apricot and it certainly works for them.....good luck..

[AkionTotocha]

As your peach is in a pot, just watch out for the leaves wilting as the suckers could be a sign of over watering.

usually a rootstock will be quite happy to give energy to the plant is the plant is happy, but if it's not or it's diseased the rootstock tries to "escape" by sending out suckers. (Sometimes it's that the rootstock is too powerful for the plant above it) but in this case I think it might not be that, and it could indicate a problem.

[Bigmallly]

Dave, be aware that some Blueberries need a different variety nearby to pollinate unless your is self-fertile. There is some info here which may help:

Growing Blueberries | How To Grow | Grow Your Own

[lookbettertomorow]

Most blueberries are self fertile but will produce more numbers of fruit if another different variety is close by. Bizarrely the RHS say not only more fruit but bigger fruit, can't see that happening but who knows?

Wish my peach looked like that, about dozen flowers then they all dropped off,think it was the run of near frosty nights that did it.

PS the buds on your blubeery are actually flowers,look close ,not too close might be a Bee ��

[chrisdb]

Most blueberries are self fertile but will produce more numbers of fruit if another different variety is close by. Bizarrely the RHS say not only more fruit but bigger fruit, can't see that happening but who knows?

Wish my peach looked like that, about dozen flowers then they all dropped off,think it was the run of near frosty nights that did it.

PS the buds on your blubeery are actually flowers,look close ,not too close might be a Bee ��

I don't know about blueberries, but I'm sure apples produce bigger and better fruit if well pollinated. I read that they divert energy to the fruits with the most viable pips inside, so better pollination does affect fruit size and quality. I guess that, for plants where each fruit contains multiple seeds, pollination is not a binary yes/no affair?

See this for example:

https://www.google.co.uk/url?sa=t&so...dqX9yT1cIFq0uQ


Empty carpels reduce growth in fruit height rather than diameter, suggesting that symmetry indices using fruit diameter are not sensitive enough to evaluate fruit quality. Evidencing this, fruit without mature seeds observed in this study showed high symmetry based on diameter, but were greatly asymmetric with respect to fruit height.

[lookbettertomorow]

I guess that, for plants where each fruit contains multiple seeds, pollination is not a binary yes/no affair?
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Thanks for that Chris, interesting and perhaps logical