So it has come up in another thread that my Pickering might be different. So thought I'd start a thread to track the progress of mine and see what others think. I went and looked in my garden book - bought it from pine island in 2010, and the label shows the nice golden yellow fruit. Last year however, I had 4 fruit, none of which was yellow when ripe. The insides were dark orange, and it was extremely sweet with a lot of coconut flavor. The fruit was huge! But they did not ripen until august. The tree is very small and seems to exhibit the dwarf growth habit I expect. So now som pics
Fruitlets and young fruit were markedly reddish
As they grew they got more and more green
The fruit were huge! I used quart sized jugs to protect from raccoons
Unfortunately, I didn't take any pictures of the inside of the fruit, but they were fully ripe.
Here is what the tree looks like this year
And this year's immature fruit
Whatever I have, it is excellent! But am very interested in others opinions - is this is actually Pickering?
I'll post more pics as this year's crop matures. Be very interesting to see if they turn yellow this year!