Silver Creek Nursery Ltd.

Debbie's Gold Apricot Bareroot

History: Debbie's Gold was introduced by Aubins Nursery in Manitoba in 1980.

Why We Grow It: Debbie's Gold is a relatively new but promising apricot variety for us. It is very cold hardy and late blooming, which improves the chance of a crop in our climate. It produces small fruit with a rich apricot flavour with spicy notes.

          $68.00

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          Fruit Traits:

          Recommended Use: Canning, fresh eating

          Fruit Size: 3-4cm in diameter

          Storage: Keeps 2-3 weeks in the fridge

          Harvest: Late August

          Tree Traits:

          Canadian Hardiness Zone: 3

          Soil Preferance: Fertile sandy loam, loam, lighter clay loam - nothing very heavy. Prefers average to moist conditions with well-drained soils, avoid planting anywhere that floods for more than two weeks in the spring.

          Flowering Time: Late

          Bloom Colour: Pink

          Pollination Requirements: May require a pollination partner. Plant with another apricot variety that blooms around the same time.

          Sun/Shade Requirements: Full sun (approx. 8-10 hours of sun daily)

          General Growth Habit: Vigorous with a rather upright growth pattern, has reliable and decent crops

          Overall Disease Resistance Rating*:

          *this rating is combined with our experience growing in our test orchards combined with already available information on the cultivar.

          Shipping: Every year we ship thousands of plants across Canada. We carefully bag roots in damp sawdust, then box them and send them out via courier. CLICK HERE to see our shipping policy.

          Pick-up: We also have thousands of trees picked up from our nursery each year. The pick-up options is free, though you must wait until you have been emailed a confirmation that your order is ready to pick up, which will have further information such as hours, locations, etc.

          Our grafted fruit trees are graded into two categories, and the size includes the rootstock:

          • 50-80cm grade: Smaller trees that may have some minor branching, this grade is like a "b-grade" size tree according to industry standards. This size may include trees that are over 1m but have some scarring or mild crookedness.
          • 1m+ grade: Trees that are over 1m tall, some may have no branches and others may have light feathering or a few established branches 

          Please keep in mind, bareroot trees appear small if you are unfamiliar with them. Size can vary year to year due to weather conditions and every single variety has a unique amount of vigour (some varieties naturally are smaller and some bigger, much like humans -and when you propagate hundreds of varieties, there certainly is variation). While we remain competitive in our plant size, it's also worth noting we don't use synthetic chemicals to push vegetative growth. Therefore you may find some conventional nursery stock larger in comparison. 


          Why plant small? It's best to transplant a tree when it's young so it can establish its roots before it has a lot of vegetative growth. This is much less stressful on it and after a few years bareroot trees tend to catch up and even surpass larger potted trees planted at the same time.

          Orders that are cancelled last minute due to size (being "too small"), will still incur the applicable cancellation fees if the trees are true to our grading standards as per the agreement of sale when the order was placed.

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