Apricot Cross-pollination

[Artisan]

Being the novice I am at growing soft fruit and top fruit can anyone tell me if it would an advantage to grow another Apricot tree in the vicinity of the self-fertile Dwarf Apricot tree I recently planted in a container to get cross-pollination thus improving future fruit yields?

[BUFFS]

I have a dwarf apricot I picked up at a store a few years ago and I hand pollinate all the flowers with a little kid's paintbrush each morning, for at least a week , better the longer you do it, just gently stroke the brush across each flower, backwards and forwards, and as the apricots flower early, this will give you good germination, not a lot of insects flying around up here that early in the year, except bumble bees, dumbledores, whatever you want to call them, and keep them out of the winters rains, that's the trees, not the bees, it seems to keep them problem free.

[Kirk]

Apricot is a member of the Prunus family so there seems a fair chance that another from the Prunus may be a viable cross pollinator. Peach should and nectarine if you have them. Not sure about plum or even cherry, they are prunus but somewhat different in the appearance of the fruit. Makes interesting thoughts.

So besides Apricot what else is thee ?