ROFL - you planted them.....looked after them...........grew them........and a year or two later you asked for a refund on a few quid. Man thats tight

So judging from above responses, lots of these bought over a few years & it produced 1 apple, 2 pears & 3 cherries?

Every year I buy a few fruit trees from Aldi and have bought from all the supermarket chains and I have found Aldi are the best. The trick is to get there within a couple of days of them coming in. Get the thickest and tallest trees. Do soak the roots for some hours and plant within a day or two. I have always had fruit the same year and each year they get better and have more fruit. How can people moan at £3.49 each? Yes nurseries may be better quality but for similar trees you pay upwards of £18-20

I bought three Cox trees, the first year I saw the fruit that were clearly not Coxes - took them to the manager of the Aldi shop and he refunded the cost of the three trees immediately - telling me he had others complaining as well.

If you want to play the typical dutiful British consumer who does not mind being ripped off - go ahead !

If this buyer didn't ask for a refund, the suppliers would keep selling rubbish eg wrong type of fruit tree. How about a stellar cherry with miniature fruits which was what happened to me exactly. It said Stellar and I wouldn't think it was stellar unless it had an underdeveloped twin. In the end, I had to dig it up, which was a hard job. It still has runner popping up everywhere. This is the only way to tell Aldi to wise up. I went in there and my bag was stolen, I emailed them about my unfortunate saga, I heard not a blip. I am shopping in Lidl,, B&M, Home Bargains whenever I can.

Has anyone ever bought one of these,are they good? How many years before you get fruit? thank you

I got the Victoria Plum tree from Aldi and it's been excellent. Fruit in the 1st year and subsequent years. Last year there was loads and the fruit tasted really good.

Not so pleased with the apple tree. Has been some fruit but not such good flavour as the plums. But then again it all depends on when the frost is. Some years you will get a hard frost at the wrong time and it kills the blossom.

For an apple tree it's nice to get a variety you don't see in the supermarket. i.e. An non-commercial one that has real flavour.

They are rubbish - bought three Cox Apple trees a few years ago - all three produce apples BUT not Coxes, some bland variety I cannot identify. Took the fruit back to the store and got a full refund - still got the trees but they don't look too good.

Buy your fruit trees from a proper nursery!

They are already in the Premier League, just not playing the kind of football that is enjoyable.

We bought a few of these Bramley Seedling apple trees a couple of years ago. All growing strongly. Got our first cop of fruit last summer, enough for a few crumbles. Trouble is, they all turned out to be Granny Smith instead. Wife is VERY disappointed. Will have to rip them out and start again from a reputable dealer now. Wasted two years of growth. Will never trust Aldi labels again.

Emmm - I said the trees PRODUCED fruit just NOT Coxes !

Plus I have other well established apple, pear and plum trees in my garden.

Buy from Aldi if you dare ! They are rubbish !

Brought a conference pear tree, growing very vigorously and lots of pears, only problem is that the pear isn't conference, haven't been able to identify it yet.

Summing up, pay more and buy from your local garden centre.

I suppose its the similar to seed potatoes, buy cheap get poor yield, buy from well known garden centre reap the reward of a quality good crop!

Mmmm, for £3.49 can I afford to risk it??? Not too sure reading the above comments!!!

Pear trees are not self pollinating. The reason i ended buying a Conference tree from Aldi was I need a companion pear which flowered at the same time as another conference tree that I had brought from Ebay without knowing about any thing about pollination needs.
So currently Aldi tree is very vigorous but not what was stated on the label, no idea on the root stock and needs lots of pruning. Ebay tree grows nicely, compact but heavy fruiting with Conference pears.
If I remember correctly pear trees are broken into 3 types based on when they flower and so you need to make sure you have trees flowering at the same time when planting.
Brought a cherry tree last year from Wilkinsons and despite being planted quickly and well watered, still managed to lose most of the growth, ended up later in the year with new leaves coming from the stem, all the branches died. As for the variety shown on the label, that is still a mystery. The label said fruiting within 2 years, I don't expect anything this year.
Definitely advised against buying.

As always in life... good rootstock is important :wink:

been watching apple and cherry trees on ebay for a while - 5-6ft ones so should bear fruit much quicker. £18.99

Raspberry tree?

I've grafted fruit trees myself and do know what rootstock my trees are on. These have no such info on the label. Usually cheaper disease prone rootocks with the added bonus of no idea of the final size of the tree.

Just to add to that my sister bought 4 similar supermarket trees 5 years ago and she has had barely anything. I work in horticulture so pruned properly and cared fir them as best I could and yet they stubbornly remain poor. Spend more, trust me waiting x years only to find out your trees aren't great isn't fun. Or there is still time (just) to graft your own google rootstocks and scions or just buy appropriate rootstocks for your situation and harvest free scion wood from known trees that you might like. Phew.

A good fruit tree could probably last for several decades so far better in my opinion to buy a known variety from a proper fruit nursery rather than going on price alone.

but you wrongly said that a Cox apple tree needs another Cox apple tree near it to pollinate

it can be any other apple tree that comes into blossom about the same time

100 feet closeness is hopeless as a guide, it can be 500 feet or more

I don't know about that, what I was referring to is:

"If an apple tree blooms well but fruit fails to develop, insufficient pollination is likely responsible. Most apple varieties are self-unfruitful, with sterile pollen, or partially self-fruitful, with only some viable pollen. So for most apple trees to successfully produce fruit, multiple varieties of apple trees with overlapping periods of bloom must be planted within 100 feet of each other."

http://homeguides.sfgate.com/apple-trees-dont-produce-fruit-55638.html

No it's nothing like that at all lol

Grafted just means the fruit bearing top part (your specific required fruit variety) is grafted onto a different rootstock, either to make it grow small, medium or big (in simple terms)

A Cox does not need another Cox for mating purposes.

Ooh Matron lol

Any old apple tree will do.

Isn't the idea of grafted trees that bees can just shift pollen between blossoms on the same trunk.

I have had 4 trees from Aldi in the past, lots of hard work looking after them and lucky if they just sprout a bit of fruit which quickly dies, all trees died within 2 years. Wont buy these again not worth the hassle, very poor quality

So judging from above responses, lots of these bought over a few years & it produced 1 apple, 2 pears & 3 cherries?

I bout about 10 last year for a patch of land to the side of my house, first year i got enough apples for a good few apple crumbles (Cooking apples) cherry tree started bowing with an insane amount of cherries. no other fruits but didn't expect anything. my bro bought a pear tree which had probably a dozen pears from.

for the money Im impressed but if you are looking to buy 1 or 2 to get established in your garden its worth spending more and getting the exact thing from a recognised root stock as these could be dwarf trees given that the ultimate heights stated on the labels vary from 2 -3metres

i got one of these last year but was a bit late when planting so it was slow to spring into life however there were plenty of new shoots and its all ready for next year fingers crossed

Great trees. Got 3 last time and have grown well no fruit yet but that was because of poor weather last year for me.