various thoughts - fruit trees

Chill units (number of hours below 7C): Thornleigh's average winter temp is 11.9 (17.5 + 6.3, divided by 2) which puts it in the 600-800 chill units according to Heritage Fruit Trees, although apparently one can extend the chill units simply by keeping trees out of the sun for longer.

I'm sure I've already posted these thoughts somewhere...

APPLES:

Tropic Dorsett: v low chill, flowers in late August, fruit set by mid September, will need its own netting, harvest late December early Jan

Golden Delicious: harvest mid-January

Gala: late Sep-early Oct '22 flowering, harvest mid-January

Braeburn: (winter harvest, late), flowering late Sep-Oct '22 flowering, harvest mid-January

Anna: flowering Aug-Sep

Dorsett: flowering Aug-Sep

Granny Smith: never flowered, (winter harvest, late)

Akane: never flowered

APRICOTS: Reader's Digest and Forty South

Tilton : early Feb harvest, 600 chill hours (low), but it's sitting in sun from pretty early in the morning.

Paterson : Jan harvest, 600 chill hours (low),

Unknown (backyard): most likely a low-chill apricot, it gets marginal sun through winter.

I'm wondering if I should maybe get plumcots, which are supposed to be like apricots but hardier?

AVOCADOES:

Sheppard: type B, 2.5m with plenty of flowers but very little pollination: may require an A type to go with it I guess it required a really good season of rain so the flowers didn't all fall off. I can easily harvest an avo or two a week right now, with still at least a dozen on and more fruiting.

Note to self: don't ever look at how much you've spent on fruit trees over the years... An awful lot of them have died in their pots before they ever got into the ground...

CITRUS

:
Tri-Citrus (Bi-Citrus?): Oranges, tangerines - might have had a lemon/lime at some point
Kumquat

Makrut Lime
NOTE: neighbours have a lime tree and are more than happy to gift limes

BANANAS

Banana circle - at least one Red Dacca, the others are unknown, none have ever fruited - probably not enough nutrients

PINEAPPLE

three (3) in pots; have never worked out a good place for these to go.

MULTISTONE

apricot: lots of leaves, no fruit
donut peach: died 2022
nectarine: cut it off 2023 - it never usefully fruited, always rotted before I could harvest anything
plum: full of blossoms and fruit - yellow flesh, starts off very green, ripens to a violet-purple blush

PEACHES/NECTARINES

white peach - on dual stone
yellow peach (clingstone) - single
white nectarine - single
white nectarine - on dual stone

hardware:

Veggie patch AU - clips and clamps