Scientific name: Prunus armeniaca.
 
Popular names: canine apricot.
 
Variety: Canine.
 
Family: Rosaceae.
 
Origin: Portugal.
 
General: Apricots are undemanding to the cold, very mild winters produce an intense flow of flowers.
 
Caste features: Medium vigor tree with slightly open habit, productive and moderately demanding in cold hours.
 
Flowers: The flowers are white or pink, they open in the second half of winter on still bare branches.
 
Fruits: Medium-sized fruits, orange-yellow in color, good flavor, not very aromatic and slightly adherent to the pulp. They ripen fairly evenly around the first week of June and show good post-harvest behavior and canning ability.
 
Flowering: blooms in early May and locates flowers mainly on short shoots. It has important drops of buds and flower buds, but it is advisable to thin out the fruits.
 
Multiplication: By graft.
 
Adult plant size: It can reach 8 meters in height.
 
Lighting: direct sun, although the largest fruits are on shaded branches. Good protection from cold winds is needed, which can damage flowers and fruits.
 
Temperature: It is a plant very resistant to low and high temperatures.
 
Transplant: is held in the spring.
 
Ground: Apricot prefers deep, easy to work, clayey soils. Very heavy and humid soils are not recommended for cultivation, neither are those that are loose and dry.
 
Irrigation: It is not very demanding on water, being able to grow perfectly on dry land.
 
Fertilizer: fertilize with manure in late winter or early spring. In the first few waterings add complex mineral fertilizer.
 
Pruning:Eliminate dry or decayed branches, clarify if you have too many branches, you can even force fruiting by bending the branches horizontally.
 
Illnesses: In winter, make a good treatment with anti-mealybugs and copper to eliminate the pests and diseases that will be in winter. Then keep an eye out for aphids and spots along the crop.
 
TREATMENT OF FRUIT:
 
Fruit trees should be sprayed twice a year: the 1st treatment is carried out in autumn before leaf fall, the 2nd treatment is carried out in spring before flowering.
 
- Copper fungicide: ​​1 sachet (50 grams) for 10 liters of water.
 
- Anti mealybugs: 10 c.c. for 20 liters of water (0.5 c.c. / 1 ​​liter of water).
 
The two products can be mixed.
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