Fruit trees at Nettos..Lidls

[growmore]

Both have got fruit trees in.  I saw Apples and pears  in Nettos  ..£3-99 each ..Looked well too...

[growmore]

[valmarg]

They'd also got plums and cherries in the branch I went into, but you'll need to be quick, the way they were being carried out!!

valmarg

[valmarg]

P.S.  It was a branch of Netto's I went in to.

valmarg

[Pigletwillie]

My brother in law bagged me 2 commice pears, two plums and a golden delicious apple. The dozen we bought last year have grown and fruited very well this year.

As Valmarg, they were from a Netto.

[davholla]

My brother in law bagged me 2 commice pears, two plums and a golden delicious apple. The dozen we bought last year have grown and fruited very well this year.

As Valmarg, they were from a Netto.

You planted fruit trees last year and they are already giving fruits ?
Can you get all rootstocks or just some ?

[Melbourne12]

My brother in law bagged me 2 commice pears, two plums and a golden delicious apple. The dozen we bought last year have grown and fruited very well this year.

As Valmarg, they were from a Netto.

You planted fruit trees last year and they are already giving fruits ?
Can you get all rootstocks or just some ?

We have bought supermarket trees, and they can be excellent, but they're not always very well labelled.  I'd be very nervous of buying something if I didn't know what the rootstock was.

I suspect a lot of this stock is coming in from commercial nurseries in places like Bulgaria and Hungary, where they're primarily growing for orchards.  A cherry tree on commercial rootstock will grow into a giant!  And quite a lot of the commercial tree-fruit varieties are quite particular about pollination if they're to be properly productive.

[Robert_Brenchley]

Don't trees on vigorous rootstocks normally take longer to come into fruit? I have a Concorde pear which fruited last year (it's first), and not this year. I probably shouldn't have let it fruit.

[Paulines7]

I bought four trees from Lidl in Tidworth on Saturday.  They are Bramley apple, Stella cherry, Almond (Prunus Amygdalus) and a Malus Sentinel, all at £3.99 each. 

I was surprised that there were any left in stock but then Tidworth is a Military town and I expect the majority of the population live in Army accomodation.  If they have a garden, I doubt they would be planting trees for their brief posting in the area. 

[alienwithaview]

We have fruit trees and bushes we bought over the past 2 years from Woolworth, Wilkinsons and Lidl, and nearly all of them survived. We even uprooted some of them after a very brief spate in Brighton, and replanted them in Wiltshire. Some of them have already fruited but the grape-vines didn't want to know, and one of the blackcurrants was fruitless.
Just got a pear tree and a plum tree from Lidl Warminster (there didn't seem to be a mad rush for them)  and hope for the best.