• Representative orange apricots growing on a tree
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Apricot 'Haro Gem'

Apricot 'Haro Gem'

Cultivar & Origin

Haro Gem, also commonly written Harogem, comes from the Canadian apricot breeding program at Harrow. It produces orange fruit with a red blush and is used as a fresh-market apricot as well as for preserving. Its harvest follows some of the earlier apricot selections. Our batch is grafted on Myrobalan rootstock.

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Pourquoi nous le cultivons

Haro Gem combines attractive red-blushed orange fruit with a useful fresh-eating crop. It comes from the Canadian Harrow apricot breeding tradition, giving a mixed orchard another selection to compare for flavour, production and harvest timing. Surplus fruit is easy to direct into drying, jam or the freezer.

Comment pousse la plante

Our Myrobalan-grafted stock is managed as a semi-standard tree. Develop well-spaced scaffold branches and an open canopy, thin crowded fruit and maintain a height you can harvest. Final size depends on cultivar, site and pruning. Avoid waterlogged soil.

Taille de la plante

Taille à maturité commonly 15–25 ft tall and wide before size-control pruning.

Taille actuelle

Informations complémentaires

Harvest for flavour, not colour alone. Remove damaged fruit and maintain airflow to reduce disease pressure. Apricot kernels are not a food recommendation.

Haro Gem

A tree-ripened apricot is one of the pleasures of a home orchard: fragrant, tender and full of summer flavour. Eat them fresh while they are ready, then turn the extra fruit into jam, dried apricots or freezer supplies. We love having a crop that is both a seasonal treat and something we can put away to enjoy long after the harvest.
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  • Representative orange apricots growing on a tree
  • Representative apricot growing or flowering in a garden

Points forts de la plante

  • Eau

    Steady moisture during establishment and fruit growth.

  • Pollinisation

    Many apricots crop alone, but a compatible second tree can improve set; see cultivar note.

  • Sol

    Fertile, well-drained soil.

  • Des années à supporter

    Often 3–5 years after planting grafted stock.

  • Rusticité

    Generally suited to sheltered zone 5-type sites; blossom frost is a separate risk from winter survival.

  • Solaire

    Full sun; avoid low frost pockets.