It’s a 4 year old Sweet Scarlet and gets the most sun out front of the 3 goumis, a full day. Almost every branch has at least some of these peach shaped berries. It also had the peach shaped ones last year, the half flat ones, and normal berries. This is the first year of the more complex defects.
I’ll plant a few seeds, but I’m more interested in rooting it, put a few in different locations, and see if the problem persists. I have a Red Gem (4 yo) and Carmine (3 yo) less than 20’ from each other, and planted last year the Sunrise Ruby, another Carmine, and a Raintree Select in the back yard. Only one bush looks like this.
Do your deer bother these at all? My red gem is currently unprotected after moving it this winter, and I would obviously prefer to harvest it without moving a cage.
I finally got my first goumi this year, Tillamook, and I am trying to decide if it’s worth buying Raintree Select in a couple years when I’ve saved up the money (there are other plants I want to get first). I would really appreciate if you could post about their similarities and differences when both your Tillamook and Raintree Select ripen.
Thank you very much for such a great comparison! It sounds like what I want is a Red Gem. It will be nice to have them ripen at two different times. How much earlier did Red Gem ripen than Carmine?
Planted my two Tilamook (Carmine) last year. One has flowers, the other none. Funny thing is the one that has just a little more shade has the flowers.
I have had Carmine for a few years now and got first RT fruit this year.
Carmine over the past few years has started and remained more tart than my Red Gem. I don’t know for sure but expect that Raintree Select may do the same. RT does seem a bit more tart than Carmine but today was my first time to try them.
Red Gem seems to be the best tastings cultivar in my opinion, I bought two more, i got a Korean verity too, i disremember the name, i have high hopes, the OP have an amazing orchard of fruit bushes, enjoyed reading this post.
Raintree and Carmine .. still tasting the same. Quite tart initially with a little sweetness.. nice goumi flavor. I would say they are around 70% tart, 30% sweet.
Red Gem and Sweet Scarlet have a good mix of tart and sweetness for fresh eating… more like 50/50… but they are smaller berries.
Early morning walk through my small orchard with my coffee in hand. Goumi is about the earliest to ripen so the mockingbirds and I get an early morning snack. A few more days of snacking and it will be time to start thinking about the blueberries.
Getting pretty good production on my Carmine that’s in its third leaf. The berries look cool and are my earliest harvest of anything, seem unmolested by birds, like the way the bush grows, berry texture is good and kind of chewy-jelly…but damn are they tart. I actually like tart things thankfully. Are Carmines typically pretty tart regardless of how ripe they are? We’ve had quite cool temps with some rain recently and wondering if that’s keeping sugars down.
