Hi gang,
A month or so ago I noticed some nice fall blooms on one of my apple trees and thought it was strange. Well, just a week or two ago I went back to look and there are now several small apples growing. I've never had any trees bloom and set fruit in the fall before, so I'm wondering how common it is? Have any of you seen this on your own trees? Wondering if it is common to the variety, or just a fluke. My trees are just 3-4 years old and barely starting to set fruit.
Thx - Dan
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- Winter's coming... 
Strange things happen!
I have a columnar apple tree, Golden Sentinel that also set fruit this fall. I think the flowers bloomed in Sept, multiple spurs. It was the only apple that I observed blooming in my yard.
I assume they can't amount to anything, but I don't know if forming apples will affect dormancy. So I removed them.
I also had 2 new persimmon grafts that produced flower buds that are present now, Chocolate Persimmon. I guess that grafting and the slow take of the scion, make it "think" it went through dormancy. We'll see if that affects the scion viability next year.
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