ThreeDollarBillDec 6
#Malus domestica, apple, Pitmaston Pineapple, 2017-05-02. Strathcona Community Garden, Vancouver BC Canada.
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Show threadStewart Tolhurst
@3DBill We have one in our garden.
Dec 6 at 5:17pmWeb
Show threadThreeDollarBillDec 6
@foxbasealpha it crops heavily every other or every third year here. Apparently not only for us -
https://www.orangepippin.com/varieties/apples/pitmaston-pineapple
Apple - Pitmaston Pine Apple - tasting notes, identification, reviews

An old English apple variety with an unusual flavour reminscent of pineapples.

Show threadStewart TolhurstDec 6
@3DBill It was a very good year for fruit in the UK. We had peaches, apples, blackberries. Still haven’t cracked how to get the best out of our fig bush though…
Show threadThreeDollarBillDec 6
@foxbasealpha your climate is close enough to ours that you probably have the same issues, 1 the season is not long enough and 2 the brebas crop gets frozen or rots. The only solution I know of is to choose a variety that has the main crop as early as possible, and not expect a brebas. I do know one guy who covers the tree in a spun-bonded tent and runs a string of christmas lights under it all winter, to stay just above freezing, but even so his success is patchy.
Show threadStewart TolhurstDec 6
@3DBill We have Brown Turkey which is supposed to be suitable for the UK. I think I need to prune it better too. There are some newer varieties that do well in containers and ripen quicker - I might give one of those a go. We do put the peach tree under glass in the winter - but that’s mostly to protect it from peach leaf curl and late frosts taking the blossom. Since I started hand pollenating it the peach has done pretty well…
Show threadThreeDollarBillDec 7
@foxbasealpha is doing it by hand a huge nuisance?
Show threadStewart TolhurstDec 7
@3DBill Not really, it’s a dwarf tree in a pot and self fertile so it’s just a case of transferring pollen between flowers with a soft paintbrush. I think the problem is that it flowers too early for there to be many insects around.