Can't help there, but the Rare Fruit Society is based in SA and they'll know for sure. Their email is rarefruit@rarefruit-sa.org.au.

Thanks Ray, I will contact them

Gill

Hello Gill,
Let me know if you have any trouble getting the Bramley, I grafted a few last winter, haven't checked but would expect at least to have scion. Bramleys are Triploids, this means that they won't provide viable pollen to pollinate another apple and need a pollinator themselves.
Neil

Neil, have you ever grown apple trees from seed? I've heard that they don't grow the same fruit as their parent, but that you might get nice apples anyhow, and so I thought I'd have a go. I wondered whether an apple grown from Bramley seed would also be triploid?

PP

Hello Patrina,
I only grow apples from seed for rootstocks as I am intending planting roadside seedlings direct then grafting a peice of dwarfing interstem, then the intended vartiety. I am intending doing it that way because a transplanted tree doesn't redevelop a taproot and looses its drought tolerance. I dop check all the seedling fruit trees growing wild for good ones and have added some to my collection for their fruit.

Fruit trees such as peaches and nectarines that are self fertile often produce quite true to type while ones that are self infertile rarely produce true to type and Bramleys because of their being a triploid are guaranteed to be corss pollinated by something diofferent soi expect something different. I chose a known rootstock or add an interstem when I can so to have predictability in size of tree and suitability to soil types, something you loose growing seedlings (without a dwarfing interstem). while I think we need more genetic variability which comes from seedlings it is sometning that trakes a lot of room and time-
Neil

Neil, so you plant a seed where you want the tree, then, when old enough, graft a bit from a dwarf variety then the desired scion(s)?

Yes Ray, intend doing the same with anything I can, my first 7 Black walnuts are up and should be ready for grafting in a year or so. Peaches, plums, apples, quinces, avocados, cherries (dwarf St Lucia Mahaled which is very drought tolerant) are just a few of the fruit trees intended being planted direct seed.
Neil

Hi Neil,
You mentioned growing avocado from seed. Would you need a particular variety and would it be okay if you do not graft the plant? Are you likely to get fruit? I love avocado and the only reason I haven't tried to grow one is I thought it would be toooo cold down here!
Thanks, Halina

Hello Halina,
Not sure where yuou are but Avocado's do well in Melbourne, may need protection from frost in the first year and also hot northerly winds for the first year. Avocadso's have A type and B type, the male and female flowers being open at different times. A types have female flowers open when B type have male open and vice versa. In hoter areas of lower humidity the pollen dries on the male flowers before the females open so you need both A & B types. South of the divide one tree should be OK but a seedling may be quite variable from the parent. Good luck-
Neil

Hello
I'm trying to find Bramley apple trees for my garden but am not having any success.

Neil are you still growing them? Can anyone else help?

halinka,

just to add to the avacado information, not all varieties come with that catagory, there are many that are neither 'A' nor 'B'. if you have room and like those particular fruits in that catagory growing 1 of each lengthens the fruiting season, but it is not esential to have both to get fruit each type will have both gender flowers sometime in the season be it early or late.

my advice buy a grafted tree or plant a seedling and graft it yourself if you are talented, seedling trees can be unpredictable in fruiting qualitites from giving good fruit true to form through poor almost inedible fruit to never fruiting at all, also seedling trees take longer before they mature enough to fruit.

len

Here is a link that might be useful: len's garden page

Can anyone confirm if Bramley apples are available commercially? I live in Queensland and I would imagine it would be impossible to grow them here, so the only way I coudl enjoy them would be to buy them.