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RE: Baldy - where are you? I still luv ya! - JJB - 24-10-2020
(24-10-2020, 08:06 AM)Norfolk Grey Wrote: Look, it has only been three years (I think) and I have (almost) my first fruit. So worth that £5 (touch wood)
NG , looking at the medlar images on the net, they are brown furryish and have, for want of a better phrase, cat's @rses,. Why is yours yellow and smooth and slightly furrowed, with no sign of a cat anywhere?
RE: Baldy - where are you? I still luv ya! - Veggie - 24-10-2020
What makes you think its a medlar JJB?
RE: Baldy - where are you? I still luv ya! - Admin - 24-10-2020
Its not a medlar....funny I know it as a dogs......
RE: Baldy - where are you? I still luv ya! - Mark_Riga - 24-10-2020
Looks a bit like quince in some pictures, never seen one for real.
RE: Baldy - where are you? I still luv ya! - Admin - 24-10-2020
My guess is still a Sharon/Persimmon fruit
RE: Baldy - where are you? I still luv ya! - Baldy - 24-10-2020
T'aint a medlar
Medar taste a bit like apple (to me anyway) but do look really odd and are best picked just before they go rotten.
I can understand why you won't find them in the supermarket...
RE: Baldy - where are you? I still luv ya! - Norfolk Grey - 24-10-2020
It is a sharon/ persimmon fruit. I will take a pick of the dogs bottom for you tomorrow - none of the fruit on it made it last year and I think it only has two this year. Of course Veggie's would be sooooooo much better over in sunshiny Wales
I am sorry to hear yours didn't make it Baldy. My one in the veg patch was touch and go in the early days and I had to scar it to prevent losing it to canker, but it is still going (if a little swamped by nettles). My gage is probably the slowest and stubbornest out of my 4 trees 
RE: Baldy - where are you? I still luv ya! - Veggie - 24-10-2020
Its time for me to own up - my first is a Quince - I haven't had any flowers on the persimmon yet.
Is your gage the Mirabelle thing as all I'm getting on that are shoots from the root stock.
The Red Apple ?Red Sun is delicious. I'd buy more of those (at £5).
RE: Baldy - where are you? I still luv ya! - Norfolk Grey - 24-10-2020
^^^You cheeky lil........I will let you off as you came clean. I did have two fruits but one dropped due to irregular watering. This year was a key year for quince round here it seems, but my quince is a couple years older.
My gage is the claude reine - it just hasn't flowered or put on growth it is still quite odd looking. I have a spartan apple I picked up from from aldi back in the 'what rootstock is it' days and it is fab a huge late dessert apple that just doesn't seem to get bothered by pest or canker. So glad i have that addition. I grafted my own mirabelle from one out of an old orchard and they use to dismiss as they always picked it too early but the fruit is so yummy and almost apricotty - will be a while before I get anything off it. Any way enough of fruit and me being cheap- I am being summoned - nighty night x
RE: Baldy - where are you? I still luv ya! - Veggie - 24-10-2020
Having goggled I've found Baldy's original post https://www.growfruitandveg.co.uk/grapevine/forum/on-the-plot/feeling-fruity/95767-suttons-%A35-trees-offer-ended
if you want a trip down memory lane.
It was April 2017.It seems I did buy a gage and 7 other trees. Wonder where I planted them all.?
The apple, medlar, peach and now the quince have fruited so belated thanks from me too, Baldy.