Has anyone here had any luck with the Adirondack Gold Apricot? I can only find one reference to someone actually planting it, and they said it didn’t fruit for them. I’m planting it as an experiment regardless, I was just curious if anyone else had actually had it fruit, and if they had a pollinator for it or if it is truly self-fruitful.
Unlike in the west, apricots are not reliably self-fruitful in the colder regions, so not bearing may only be a matter of cross pollination. This article suggests that the Canadian Har series is a go in Z4, but I’m not sure this is accurated. I know that Sungold and Moongold are reputedly so. They aren’t bad but not of the fine quality as are the Har series.
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I see that St. Lawrence no longer sells Adirondack Gold Apricot or any other apricot. We’ve never had fruit from our AG, even though for most years it has had cross pollination. However, neither of our much younger other apricots have produced fruit either, so it could be location not variety that is the problem for us.
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I planted one last spring next to Brookcot. It was lonely after Sugar Pearl gave up the ghost. We will see, but it is alive after its first winter. So far for me all P. armeniaca varieties like S.P., Montrose, and China Sweet Pit have inevitably died within two seasons. P. mandshurica are the only apricots I’ve had survive here long term. I planted 100 Brianna apricot seeds last winter (P. sibirica x P. armeniaca) Every last one of them rotted in the ground. I wonder if it’s my soil, or climate, or both. All other stone fruits I have tried seem fine.
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Had our first Adirondack Gold “Apricots” from Saint Lawrence Nursery today. They are neither an apricot, nor golden, nor good. I will regraft this tree. Just a heads up everybody don’t waste your time on this one.
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It could’ve been just the rootstock no? Being charitable
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No. Unless it was never grafted in the first place, mine never had any tip die back whatsoever, and the leaves always looked like a plum. It could be an incorrect variety was grafted originally. I am not the only one evidently, this guys look just like mine. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FWM4FzycAis
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Ours died a few years ago, but the rootstock thrived. I called St Lawrence and was told Adirondack Gold grew on its own rootstock. The rootstock died a few years after that before bearing any fruit, so I don’t know what tree it really was. A Blue Pearmain I got from St Lawrence was actually a Trailman Crab. I should add that new owners have taken over since the time I bought trees from there.
After quite a few non-bearing seasons, I got my first crop of these Adirondack Golds this year. They looked exactly like the ones in the photo above. I don’t think they are really an apricot, but rather a plum. The flesh is sweet but the skin is sour. I like them a lot, but my wife doesn’t care for them. If we get enough next year, I will try to make preserves, which I think would be good.
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