That is honestly a problem with many commercial crops. Here in America commercial crops are selected for their storage potential. The apples and pears you see in store are often the apples and pears known for storage and not taste. Issue is those are often the apples bought and grown by novice gardeners as that is what becomes known to people. You can view posts on r/hotpeppers and r/spicy on reddit on how many commercial peppers are now no longer hot. I guess growers have selected a jalapeño that is more consistent but has nearly no heat for sale at the commercial level so any one who wants a pepper with any heat needs to buy a habanero now. I see many novice gardeners go straight to honey crisp because it is an apple they know from the grocery store but they don’t realize how hard it is to grow compared to other apples. I have tried to grow the commercial level apples and they have all failed while my more unknown to the commercial landscape names have not. The only commercial named apple I have had success with is the Super Red Fuji and I don’t know anyone else who sells them now that Stark Bros stopped selling them.
That sounds like a great project. I grew Moniqui, it was an amazing apricot.
Wow, I remember my apricots in RI, opening at about the same time. Here I have fruit that are already a third their size.
Hi Scott.
Yes, the Moniquí variety has a lot of recognition for its quality, Moniquí has a defect, and that is that it is a variety with a tremendously small window of pollen receptivity, making it a low-productive variety.
My goodness if you could eat varieties like:
- Mitger de Castellón
- Real Fino
- Uleano
- Mauricio
- Velazquez
- Hueso dulce de Abanilla
- Damasco de Abanilla
- Galta Vermella Mallorquín
- Carrascal
- Martinet
- Ginesta
- Rojo Carlet
- Currot
- Palau
- Tadeo
Etc…
My goodness, what flavor , aroma , and sweetness
Best regards
Jose
My second leaf Katy apricot managed to set to fruit. We’ll have to see if they make it all the way to my mouth… 
I have grown apricot trees for twenty years, but have never gotten a single apricot from one. Still I replace them in wishful thinking that this may be the year.
If you grow it in a pot (at least 15 gallon pot) and protect it from freezing in the winter, I bet you will get to eat home grown apricots.
Apricot ripen early. I think you can pick any variety and it still gives you fruit in time.
I am right there with you, my friend. Been growing them 14 years and have had a whooping 3 apricots make to ripe. They were incredibly good, which is what fuels my dreams. I get lots of blooms, but they come so early here that frost almost always gets them. The few times it doesn’t, I get terrible fruit set- maybe because my pollinator trees don’t line up or maybe because they bloom so early here that there are no bees or other insects out to pollinate. Whatever the problem, I just created 2 new appricot trees this year (used wild plum suckers and apricot scion wood and they are growing like crazy.
Keep the dream alive! Our day is coming.
Kevin,
You have gotten serious brown rot in you orchard. Have your apricots suffered from blossom blight? That could be one reason for poor fruit set.
This year, I skipped my apricot tree for pre-bloom fungicide spray. It is only fruit tree in that area that got blossom blight. The peach and plums trees next to it were sprayed and had no early blight.
Mine don’t even get blossoms. In winter it gets below zero F in our garage, which is only a one-car garage, so no room either.
It is a great question and would make sense, but I don’t much think it is my brown rot (which as you say is out of control this year). Also, I have an apricot at my workplace and don’t have much brownrot there, but it didn’t produce either. The blooms didn’t look wilted/deformed like they do when blossom blight hits them (brown rot BB or the other BB). THey set quite heavy, but dropped most. Part of that was freeze but some held on long enough to prove they survived the freeze, then feel. I also get wilting disease issues with my apricots quite a bit, which usually kills them around age 3 years- nice healthy tree one day, wilted and dead the next.
@northwoodswis4 oh that is bad- I at least get the excitement of getting blooms and even fruitlets most years, though that may just make it more painful. As for potted…I’m done with potted except for 1 lemon tree. I got so sick of hauling potted trees in and out of my garage, and potted never got big enough to give me very much fruit anyway. No, I’m too old and lazy for the musical potted tree game these days! I do spray copper, myclo, and captan pre bloom and while it hasn’t stopped brown rot on fruit, it seems to help with the blossom rot stage at least.
Although may apricots are self fertile, some are not. Are the varieties you grow self fertile? Also, the “self fertlie” part is only partially. I used to have Tomcot and OrangeRed together, they set very well. Now I have only Tomcot, the tree set some fruit, not much compared to the flowers it had.
Hopefulky next year my OR graft will flower.
Until 2-3 years ago, I was getting nice crops of cots. Now, they barely flower. The aprium doesn’t flower now, which cuts back cross-pollination on the Harglows.
I saw two fruits set at the top of a branch this spring, but they disappeared early.
I’m buying cots from the store. Huge but insipid.
Wrong zone.
And here they are. Two weeks early. There are 10 more on the tree for fresh eating!
Color corrected. It was on the wrong setting.
Wow, you figured out how to grow apricots on tomatoes… 
Lookslike a tarte is in order
Those look so good.
I am all green with envy 