Grow delicious early-season apricots with this live Nugget Apricot Tree, shipped bare root and ready for planting. This classic apricot variety is prized for its large flavorful freestone fruit with attractive golden-yellow skin blushed with red. The sweet juicy flesh is excellent for fresh eating, baking, preserves, drying, and desserts.

Nugget apricots ripen early, typically 1–2 weeks before Blenheim apricots, making them a rewarding addition to home orchards seeking an extended harvest season. Vigorous, productive, and self-fruitful, this easy-to-grow tree is ideal for backyard orchards, edible landscapes, and home fruit gardens.

You will receive:
✔️ 1 live Nugget Apricot Tree
✔️ Height: approximately 3 feet tall
✔️ Shipped bare root
✔️ Healthy, dormant fruit tree
✔️ Self-fruitful apricot variety
✔️ Secure packaging for safe arrival

Growing Information

• Common Name: Nugget Apricot
• Botanical Name: Prunus armeniaca ‘Nugget’
• Plant Type: Deciduous fruit tree
• Growth Stage: Young grafted tree
• Sun Requirements: Full sun preferred (6–8 hours daily)
• Soil: Well-draining fertile soil
• Watering: Moderate; water deeply during dry periods
• Mature Height: 12–18 feet
• Growth Rate: Moderate to fast
• USDA Zones: 5–9
• Harvest Season: Mid-June in warm climates
• Chill Hours: Approximately 500 hours or less
• Pollination: Self-fruitful
• Container Friendly: Yes, with pruning and proper care

Care Tip: Plant in full sun for the best fruit sweetness and color. Annual pruning helps maintain healthy structure, improve airflow, and encourage productive fruiting wood.

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.