Medlar fruiting

[spandit]

Only planted it this winter, wasn't expecting fruit for a few years

 

[Hugo]

Ah the dogs do da. An acquired taste, I like it.

 

[British Red]

WOW - mine is in leaf but no fruit so far I think - is that a fruit or a flower blossom BTW?


ETA

Mine has them too - I think they are flower buds - woohoo

 

[spandit]

Ours has already blossomed, I think this is the next stage but could be wrong

 

[British Red]

Interesting - I definitely have the same thing so I will watch it with interest - I don't recall seeing any blossom on ours ??

 

[British Red]

This is ours

Medlar Bud by British Red, on Flickr

Great to know someone else who has one. If ours fruits this year, I'll probably remove them as the branches are a bit too slender to bear fruit yet.

I'm betting a bottle of my homebrew to a bottle of yours that these are flower buds....but time will tell

 

[British Red]

Flowers opened on ours this week.

Medlar Flower by British Red, on Flickr

They look rather like a dog rose flower I think - both in bud shape and flower.

 

[spandit]

I think our flowers have been and gone and the remains is where the fruit should form

 

[British Red]

Interesting ....I'll monitor developments with interest as I have no idea what to expect. I am amazed how late the leaves open on mulberries by comparison, a good two months later than the medlar....fun to see how they do

 

[spandit]

Haven't got a mulberry yet, might have to wait until next year now

 

[British Red]

Apparently they take a long time to mature....but hey, its fun. Its amazing your medlar had set fruit a month before ours flowered - I hope ours has long enough to ripen. Aaah well, time will tell, I'll probably remove any fruit this year anyway, so no problem.

 

[spandit]

Was just reading on a different forum where someone was showing off their bluebells - noticed today as I was scything the bracken that ours have all but gone

 

[British Red]

Ours too - started going over last week