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Manchurian Apricot Seedlings
Manchurian Apricot Seedlings
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Manchurian Apricot (Prunus mandshurica) seedlings were grown from a local Manitoba orchard. The medium yellow orange fruit has a light blush and firm juicy flesh for fresh eating, canning, or drying.
Seed grown trees are genetically varied and will not be identical to the parent.
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Growing details
- Hardiness
- Zone 3Grown from seed of a Manitoba orchard
- Mature size
- About 15 ft tall and wideSeedlings vary and older trees can grow larger
- Fruit
- Medium yellow orange apricots with a light blush and firm, juicy fleshGood fresh, canned or dried
- Bloom
- Very early in springA hard frost at bloom can take that year's crop
- Site and soil
- Full sun in the warmest spot you have, in soil that drains wellShelter from wind helps protect the blossoms
- Disease
- Can get black knot, as plums and cherries doA fungus that forms black swellings on branches
Ripening
Early August
Seen on Manchurian apricots in southern Manitoba
More about this plant
A cold climate apricot
Manchurian apricot comes from northeastern Asia, where winters are long and cold. Our seed is gathered in a Manitoba orchard, the same one where the Baker's Gold apricot was selected, so the parent trees have already proven themselves here. The leaves turn yellow and orange in fall.
Grown from seed
We start the seed in the greenhouse in April and move the young trees into large plug trays to size up over the summer. Each seedling is its own tree. Fruit size, flavour and ripening time will differ a little from one to the next, and none will be an exact copy of the parent. That variety is part of the appeal, and it is also why two seedlings pollinate each other well.
Frost and fruit
The tree is hardy. The flowers are the weak point. Apricots bloom before most other fruit trees, and a hard frost at bloom means little or no fruit that year. Expect good years and lean years.
Cold hardinessZone 3 · Canadian maps for this plant
Zone 3 and warmer
The map shows minimum winter hardiness. Soil, moisture and summer warmth also affect how a plant grows.
About these maps
Climate: Natural Resources Canada, 1991–2020. Provincial distribution: VASCAN via retained botanical research. Province outlines: Natural Earth, public domain.
Open Government Licence – CanadaPollination
A single tree can set fruit, and planting two gives better crops. Each seedling is its own individual, so two planted together pollinate each other. Apricots bloom very early in spring, and a hard frost during bloom can take that year's crop.