Yes. These are in a location that requires screen pouches.
Pouched up and all set to ripen in a few weeks:
Nice job protecting those yummy fruits.
Tony
Awesome…i’m so far behind…my Mericrest is just about done flowering.
WalMart (they sell the best stonefruit locally that i can find) had nectarines from California…small…but good…not the sweetest, but for early fruit i was happy…ate probably 10 of them in one sitting.
Old thread, but right varietal.
September 8th and I have a bloom on my Arctic Star that I grafted this spring. We had a long, hot dry spell followed by rains. Buds were already set earlier this summer on the new growth and the leaves even took on a dark fall color as though the branch was going dormant.
The rains woke up one flower bud only a few months after it was formed.
You can also notice the terminal bud sprouted new leaves as well.
Graft is on a pluot tree.
PS my bloom isn’t nearly as pink
/red as the other photos here.
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Too bad it’s so late… It would be nice to have a stone fruit tree that produced and ripened fruit more than once a year.
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It’s not late, it’s early. I had double harvests from mine in January and April/May.
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Oh nice.
I was referring to my lonely bloom on a short piece of first year graft growth.
It’s good to know that I may get a few late fruit in the future.
Most stone fruit that sets this time of year will have poor quality because it’s too cold in winter. There’s no place in the US that’s warm enough in winter to have good stone fruit in the January to March time frame.
Even November and December for fruit that set in spring gets difficult. The warm central valleys of CA don’t harvest stone fruit past October and even that is mostly not up to summer standards.
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