How to grow Apricot?

Apricot
  • Latin Family: Rosaceae
  • Latin Genus: Prunus
  • Ease of Growing: Easy
  • Growing Type: Perennial
Apricot fruits are orange with velvety skin and contain an inner flesh that's both sweet and tart.

Apricot History

Soil Preference

    How to care for Apricot?

    Water

    Fertilizer

    Seeds

    Seed Viability: 

    Light

    Sun: min. 6 hours daily

    Full sun

    Conditions:Hot

    Season:

    Problems

    Apricot Types

    • Dwarf

      • Dwarf trees, great for gardeners who does not have enough space to grow the large kind.

    • Large

      • most commonly cultivated species of apricot. Its leaves are alternate, simple, toothed on the margin, with 2 small glands at base of blade. The fowers are usually solitary, 5-parted, and are white or pinkish. The edible fruit is a fleshy drupe with a large pit (stone), yellow to reddish in color.

    Diseases

    • Powdery Mildew
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