I took this pic of my Flavor King earlier this morning.
Just now, I find one on the ground. Maybe a bird knocked it off the tree since it’s still firm. I’m still a month away from the official dates. I’ll ripen this next to some bananas and report back.
Oh, man. That thing is screaming “eat me!”
It would not last for the brief walk to the inside of my house.
Haha, thanks Matt, I could watch fruit videos all day! Tom Spellman is a fruit grower’s movie star 
Thanks Patty! I’ll try grafting the ones the CRFG says will grow in Berkeley, because we’re only a little more marine here than they are. And the ones you mention, hope I can get hold of some scions at our exchange. Violette du Bourdeaux sounds great.
This is the second of my 3 Spice Zee Nectaplums. I let this one ripe on the tree. It was rather unsightly looking with a lot of thrip damage on the skin. But the fruit was unharmed inside. The insides look a bit rotten but the taste was not affected. It tasted sooo sweet and yet crunchy!
I did my second picking of black raspberries. My first pick I got 1.14 pounds of berries. I made four and half pints of jam. I didn’t like the recipe. It was to sweet so I’m starting over with no sugar and adding these berries with just two pints of what I made. I used 4 1/2 cups sugar in the first batch
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Nice looking berries you have there. I have done that batch-recycling thing too, if it doesn’t work out quite right in the first cooking. Bet its a beautiful looking jam.
I like to start with half the sugar required, you can always add more as you cook, you can also try balancing the sweetness with other flavors like spice, heat or tartness.
Made some ginger/blk raspberry jam from my jewels. From my kiwi gold and anne, I’ll make a yellow raspberry/ apricot jam and from the reds perhaps a plum/raspberry jam.
JA, You are a self control freak! Those would not have even made the bowl had I been picking them. Beautiful plants and berries. So good!
Yes,I’d like to may some jam like that someday.Right now though,with only one Bristol Black Raspberry plant,eating them off the bush is fine. Brady
Gorgeous Double Golds. I have them in too, this will be first year in fall for me to sample them.
Nice black caps. Know the variety? They look like the ones I inherited. Which kind I have has always been sort of a family mystery.
Thanks, Chris. I just mailed Vaughn’s a letter asking them to send me a pamphlet of their full offerings-- and asked about Clayton in particular…
My Triple Crown Blackberries are starting to ripen. They seem a little sweeter than the Natchez or Arapaho.
Wow, you quite a bit are further along than I am. My Arapahos are only just starting to get a pinkish tint now and Navaho is green and tight still.
Looking good there.
Just wild ones from the edge of my orchard. They taste pretty good, though. And second only to poison ivy, they’re the easiest thing I grow!
Today’s picking:
2.5 quarts from the largest Consort black currant bush. There are more to go on the 1st bush and 2 other Consorts yet to be picked and I’ve already matched last year’s production from the 3.
2 quarts of Pink Campaign currents. There is more to go on this bush too, but I got tired of picking them. It didn’t help that they weren’t as good as I remembered in the past. This year they are pretty boring, just like the other white currants. I think I need to scale back my white/red/pink currants, as there is no way I’ll use (or even pick) them all. Maybe I’ll freeze some to use for their pectin with other later-season jams (blackberry, elderberry, etc).
A bunch of gooseberries, though not too many of each variety. I wrote about them more in another thread.
The floricanes of Anne (yellow raspberry) are just ripening now and they are great. Best raspberry I grow.
Bob, you are about two weeks ahead of me. My black currants are just beginning to turn. They are very late this year. My Champagne Currants (your pink variety) looks too light to be picked. Mine become a true salmon pink and then they are sweet. My white Blanka’s have not had the best taste yet! You have a nice crop there!
