I bought a bare root tree (a peacotum-peach x apricot x plum cross) from this company two weeks ago. It was too cold and windy to plant it directly to the ground, therefore I decided to plant it in a pot and I store it inside my garage.

My question is, was this the right thing to do?

When do peacotum trees start to leaf out?
How do the leaves look like? Do they look like a peach? or and apricot? or like the plum?  What about the fruit?

Your tree should be just fine in the garage as long as the temperatures stay roughly between fourty-five and thirty-eight degrees, that way the tree’s roots won’t freeze and the tree won’t get warm enough to break dormancy.

From the 500 chill hours I am guessing it will leaf out with Pluots and Japanese Plums. Peacotums are a brand new interspecific, looking at the pictures the leaves look like fat peach leaves. From the reading I’ve done, fruit tastes more Pluot-like when it is young (shipping ripe) and more peachy as it matures (soft-ripe). The flesh is peach-like in texture and juicyness and the skin has a little bit of fuzz.

I am a gardener, I have some news for all the gardeners and to groworganic.com

Did you know that the United States Department of Agriculture updated their plant hardiness Zone map. They updated last week.

Article name;
USDA Unveils New Plant Hardiness Zone Map.

http://www.usda.gov/wps/portal/usda/usdahome?contentid=2012/01/0022.xml&contentidonly=true

Thank you, Ulises!