I’d love to see those cut, too! How many years did it grow from a seedling to bear fruit? My one year old seedlings are so small, I fear it’ll be a long time!
Their cousin Luma apiculata is ripening for me now, though:
I ate all the ripe ones earlier, so here’s one almost ripe (less sweet but still tasty), but they are so small that there’s not much to see when these are cut:
I see more blooms popping up in many of the loquat varieties I grafted last year - Argelino, Kando, Harvest, Sunset, Champagne and of course the base variety Big Jim. Hoping to compare fruits across these varieties next year
Another 32 degree night/morning here… lots of frosty grass…
Carrots and greens are happy.
Figs and raspberry … still looking ok… hope we do get a few more of those.
Today… decided to go and forage some hickory nuts from my woods…
This is what a red hickory looks like and I have hundreds of these… the ground below them is covered with nuts now.
I brought home around 10 lbs of those…
Note… the nut size varies some from tree to tree… and after I had filled a bag with those… I found some older trees with much larger nuts… so find the larger ones before you start collecting.
These below look like shagbark… or possibly southern shagbark to me.
Odd thing was… where I found those… right in the bottom of the hollow… and there were 4 somewhat young hickory trees there… but none of them had really shaggy bark. There were no nuts left on the tree… perhaps next fall I will visit that spot early October and find out which one is the shag.
These next two trees I found up on the hill a bit from the hollow bottom… definately not red hickory… look much more like shagbark nuts… but the tree bark looked more like mocker.
Some pretty good sized nuts there…
I have all these good trees marked now… will visit them each fall to collect.
GEORGIOUS FALL DAY… to spend a few hours in the woods.
I see a few rogue blooms on my Sauzee Swirl peach. Given that this is one of the fastest stone fruits from bloom to fruit, who knows, with few more warm days I may get ripe fruits before the frosts 
This dalia was sad as I was holding back water for the flowers this summer. Given the recent rains, it decided to change its season and bloom now.
Mammoth feijoa - true to its name, this is the largest of the few varieties I tried this year. I really liked the taste, sweet and very little grit. All of the feijoas have a background “vicks” taste that is bothering me. May be I am letting them ripen on counter longer.
Salavatski pomegranate harvested about 10 days ago. Only three fruits one big size and two small size. I was not sure how well these ripened but turned out very good. This is the first time in four year I was able to harvest decent ripe fruits. Fungus and rot is the main issue with these but if you spray fungicide at blooming will take care of it though I did not spray anything this year but will do next year. Taste was great and we like it.
Happy to see that. Mine have not fruited yet, but glad to see they are not wasting space. How long did it take yours to fruit?
Mine fruited third year.
48 degrees earlier this morning… went foraging for more hickory nuts… the hollow I checked today… had several smaller mockernut trees in it… I collected a few…
From what I have seen the larger the mockernut or shagbark tree… the larger the nuts.
Below are some of the mocker and shag that I have collected… getting a little morning sun on our back porch.
Now here are a few other interesting things I found while out foraging…
The tallest tree bridge I can remember seeing. A huge white oak fell perfectly across the hollow… it is a good 20 ft high in the middle and perfectly level.
This is what it looks like walking across it. Ps… old trappers and ginseng hunters cant resist a nice tree bridge crossing… and yes there was coon poo on it already.
When the tree top landed on the other side of the hollow… it took down a old hollow red oak.
Inside that red oak hollow there was a odd growth… and some very rotted wood I side…
If you take a closer look… tiny shrooms
There you go… my hickory nut hunt this fine Saturday morning.
TNHunter
Regina - those are so pretty. Such a deep color. I’ve never had an Arkansas Black, but I do have a few scions growing on one of my trees. Hope they fruit this year or next. 
Luma apiculata has been slowly but steadily ripening a handful more each day for the last month. I’ve noticed the flavor is much improved if you let them get very ripe (without any remaining green on the bottoms), but my 11 year old likes them more resiny so rarely lets me get them fully ripe.
My neighbor gave me some apples she grow. The color of the apples is very dark, almost black. She said she let them ripen on the tree and just picked in Nov. The flavor is very sweet . The texture is dense, not very juicy. I am wondering what kind apples this one could be?
Any suggestion will be helpful.
Arkansas Black?
