Enjoy early, delicious apricots with the Nugget Apricot Tree, a reliable and productive variety known for its large, flavorful fruit and attractive appearance. This bare root tree is approximately 3 feet tall and ready for planting in your home orchard or garden.

The Nugget produces bright yellow apricots with a red blush and firm, juicy flesh. The freestone fruit is easy to enjoy fresh, bake, or preserve. It ripens 1–2 weeks before Blenheim, offering an early harvest with a rich, sweet flavor.

This vigorous, self-fertile tree performs well in USDA zones 5–9 with low chilling requirements (~500 hours or less), making it suitable for a range of climates and growers of all experience levels.

You will receive one healthy dormant bare root Nugget apricot tree, approximately 3 feet tall, with secure packaging for safe delivery.

Growing Information

• Common Name: Nugget Apricot
• Botanical Name: Prunus armeniaca ‘Nugget’
• Plant Type: Deciduous fruit tree
• Growth Stage: Bare root / dormant
• Sun Requirements: Full sun (6–8 hours daily)
• Soil: Well-draining, fertile soil
• Watering: Moderate; consistent moisture during establishment
• Mature Height: 12–18 feet (smaller with pruning)
• Growth Rate: Vigorous
• USDA Zones: 5–9
• Chill Hours: Approximately 500 or less
• Pollination: Self-fertile
• Container Friendly: Possible when young; best planted in ground long-term

Care Tips

Thin fruit early to improve size, sweetness, and overall quality. Annual pruning helps maintain tree structure and encourages consistent production.

Plant Condition Disclosure

Live plants may be shipped dormant, leafless, recently pruned, bare root, or partially defoliated depending on season, weather, and shipping requirements.

Natural variation in size, branching, foliage density, color, root structure, and overall appearance should be expected.

Important Note

You will receive a live starter plant (seedling/young plant). Listing photos show the plant at a mature stage for reference only. The actual plant size, shape, and appearance may vary and will be significantly smaller than the images shown.

Customer Notice for Live Plants

Live plants may experience normal shipping stress such as leaf loss, yellowing, wilting, or minor branch damage.

Please consider local weather before purchasing. Extreme heat, freezing temperatures, severe weather, shipping delays, or unattended packages may increase plant stress.

Due to the perishable nature of live plants, returns are generally not accepted. If there is an issue with your order, please contact us within 48 hours of delivery and provide the required photos for review.

• Photos of the shipping box
• Photo of the shipping label
• Clear photos of the plant from multiple angles
• Scratch test photos if the plant appears dead or dormant

Dormant, stressed, defoliated, wilted, or transit-shocked plants are not automatically considered dead.

Claims submitted without the required photos or more than 48 hours after delivery may not be eligible for review, replacement, or refund.