I spoke with Edible Landscaping a few months back and asked them about that. He said that they have to be sprayed before and after flowering. Said that it sets in at flower time. Also, suggested Sur Anor as one that is somewhat resistant to it.
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Things are slowing down but still lot of figs and some apples left . Here are some tomatoes harvested few days ago. I use to grow big tomatoes but settled with small more intense flavor tomatoes.
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Maybe the one you tried was too ripe. My Shin Li have always been very crisp, and never soft even after storage.
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CH figs ripening fast here…
Desert tonight…
One looked a little overripe … top right… but was very good… all were.
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They look picture perfect!
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Thanks. They are all bagged
I picked or should I say found my first ripe pawpaw of the year. It’s a Shenandoah that fell to the ground. This one was the smallest and was growing alone as opposed to the 20 remaining on 3 clusters. The flavor was creamy and fruity with the lightest hint of bitterness — not at all unpleasant. My parents liked their samples too. This is its first year fruiting despite flowering the past 2. The tree has been in the ground for 4 years at this point, and is around 5 1/2 feet tall.
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That looks delicious.
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Mine are the first year’s fruit, too, but I may have leave too many on the tree, the fruit are smaller than yours.
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I got a chance to eat the only Scarlet Crush apple that made it to harvest. My first time eating one. Birds destroyed most of them. I saw this one had fallen and was caught by the organza bag it was protected in.
A really good apple for my tastes. The best variety I harvested this summer. For those not familiar its parentage consists of Cripps Pink and Honeycrisp. I felt like I could tastes traits of both apples. It is a crisp apple that in my opinion tastes more like Cripps than Honeycrisp. There is a very noticable tropical flavor at the initial bite followed by a similar acidity level to Cripps.
I was kind of in the dark as far as projected ripening date. I was not expecting it to ripen this early considering this is before both parents, especially Cripps.
Almost everything I’ve grown this year has ripened earlier than I expected so maybe that’s normal.
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These are all the grapes from one of my 2 vines. 
The local birds are done nesting and the wasps weren’t interested so I thought it was safe to let them hang a bit, just to be sure they were fully ripe. ( and to let the second catch up)
I went to check them, and possibly pick since we had rain last night, and every one has been stripped off the clusters and the empty skins left on the ground. My guess is opossum or raccoon, mainly because I don’t think the skunks climb much.
This was the first year the grapes set serious fruit and I have set some haskap aside in the freezer to help make jelly. So disappointing!
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One of a few of my “clean” fruit this season.
Winblo and PF 25 peaches and a couple of Honey Punch pluot.
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@Viridian … hate something got your grapes… if I did not bag mine… I would be lucky to get one a little pink… but bag them and I get them nice and ripe… so flavorful.
Here is my grape disaster story.
I planted two grapevines when we first built our home in the country… 3 years later… early summer… our daughter begged for a puppy… and we got her one. Australian shephard…
It was a great dog… our fav by far… after it got thru the puppy years…
But late that summer when my grape vines were in year three… she chewed both of them off at ground level.
She chewed everything for two years or more…
Puppies… better protect your grapes.
TNHunter
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Pears getting ready to ripened, all Asian pears, no name, older tree’s.
Tags long gone. The ripe ones picked were very good, spicy, sweet, very nice. The smaller variety still green.
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Nexoe, negrette, Romanian fig
Unfortunately,I waited too long for the latter, and with the rain we had, it soured
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Rain has not started here yet… lots of cloud but no ida rain yet.
Picked these for desert tonight.
Getting 4-6 CH figs daily now.
Good eats !!!
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