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Description

Fresh juicy Nectarine fruits from the supermarket are an ever more common treat nowadays, but imagine growing your own in your garden - or even patio or balcony if you have limited space.

The clever plant breeders at Zaiger, the world-leading fruit tree breeder in the USA, have worked their magic and created Nectarine 'Rubis', and teamed it up with a commercial ultra-dwarf rootstock. The result is you can grow fresh juicy Nectarines in pots right here, and it will not get to more than 1M in 5 years or so - very easy and manageable.

Nectarines are renowned for amazing Spring blossom displays too. 'Rubis' produces a cloud of fragrant deep-pink flowers, tightly wrapping the branches each Spring. Necatrines do blossom earlier than some friuits, so you may need to protect from late frosts.

The flowers, with the assitance of bees and insects, are self-fertile. But a simple tip to massively increase crops is when in full flower, use a simple artists soft paintbrush, and move from flower to flower, dragging pollen with it.

The fruitlets will set and appear quite quickly, and swell over Spring and Summer. Do not worry if a few fall off - it's the trees way of telling you irt is supporting enough fruit already. In August, you will get lovely red-skinned, yellow-fleshed juicy fresh Nectarines to pick and eat yourself - delicious fresh and still warm from the suns rays.

Grow you own Nectarines right here in the UK - easy to grow in pots.

Top Tips

For bigger crops, use an artist's soft paintbrush moving from flower to flower to increase pollination.
Try and keep the canopy dry each spring as the leaves emerge, to avoid Leaf Curl.

Care Information

Patio nectarines can be grown in large containers filled with a soil-based compost.
In February each year, feed with a balanced fertiliser, and repot every couple of years.
Naturally dwarf, these patio nectarines need little or no pruning to keep their compact shape.
Protect the blossom from frost and, although self-fertile, using a dry small artists paintbrush to brush pollen from flower to flower will increase fruit set.
When fruit appears, it will need thinning. Remove poorly placed, small, or misshapen fruits when they are about the width of your little finger nail. Aim to have a fruit every 15cm.
Water container-grown trees almost every day during the growing season and give them a high potash liquid feed every couple of weeks. Avoid excessive or irregular watering when fruit is ripening to prevent the skin splitting.
As the fruit develops it may need protection from pests such as birds and squirrels.

Delivery Information

Our experienced team at the nursery will always carefully package and send your plants nursery fresh in the perfect condition to thrive once you receive and plant them. Although most plants are extremely tough and will not be affected by all but the most extreme of weather conditions, we always avoid dispatching the most perishable plants if extreme frosts or heat is forecast. We also avoid dispatching orders over Bank Holiday weekends.

Please allow us 3-5 working days to dispatch your order. If you have ordered a 'pre-order' item, these will be sent out as soon as possible after the quoted dispatch date and we generally ship your entire order with any pre-ordered items. Once your order has been dispatched, we will send you an email with details on how you can track it.

We send most of our orders via a fully tracked courier service with Yodel. We will send you a tracking link as soon as your order has been dispatched. To avoid perishable items being stuck at depots and deteriorating, we will not require a signature on delivery, and we ask out couriers to leave your item in a safe place ad your delivery address.

*Please note, once your item has been delivered, we cannot be held responsible for loss or theft from your delivery address. If you have delivery instruction and require our courier to leave your item in a specific place, please let us know - there is an option to leave a message for the courier at the checkout.

For smaller and single-item orders, we may send these via the post with Royal Mail - Tracking will not be available for orders sent via this method.

**Please note, we cannot guarantee delivery on a certain day or time. Delivery to outlying postcode areas may take 1-2 days longer, dependent on your location.

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