If you shoot at them from higher elevation (e.g. second floor of your house), that should not be a problem. Any missed pellets will end up in the ground, not in your neighbors’ houses.
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I have enough distance and obstruction between my trees and the nearest neighbors house that I wouldn’t worry about doing any damage with a pellet. Its been years since I’ve shot anything though so I’d need to practice a bunch beforehand.
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It looks like my apricot tree has died
I’m guessing our brutal winter played a role: it was mild and mild and mild and warm and then suddenly dropped to below zero F.
This is the one i showed covered with tiny fruits two years ago. I think it’s a tomcot, and i recommend it for new England, even if it isn’t very long lived.
I’ll probably replace it with an apple, though.
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Ginda,
So sorry to see this. How old is your tree?
Apricot trees in our area die so easily. It is frustrating fruit to grow because store-bought apricot tasted awful. Only when I’ve grown my own apricots that I realize apricots can actually taste very good.
My new Tomcot apricot tree is still small.
i planted a 6’ scout apricot this spring and grafted Brookcot and Manchurian to it. hopefully it does well here. it gets sun all day and is on 3 acre field on a west facing hill so should have good airflow.
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Several years. It’s the second i had in that spot. The first died with gummosis. It didn’t last as long as the first one, but it fruited for a while before dying. I must have thought it was developing troubles, though, because i planted an apple behind it a year ago.
Also, you can see that the rootstock has sent up a shoot, which looks perfectly healthy. And maybe you can’t see, but the apple has quite the case of cedar apple rust.
Will you keep the rootstock and graft another apricots to it?
I can send you a Tomcot scionwood.
Steve
The rootstock of my Tomcot is Manchurian. I dd not know Manchurian produces edible apricot.
Some people are given up growing apricots. I saw @castanea ’s post about it this morning.
A day later, I went to the other rental with a Sugar Pearl. Both had a reasonably heavy set of fruit, but there weren’t any left when I got there. Just some broken branches. I’d guess raccoons.
Speaking of raccoons, I’ve started setting out my traps again and it looks like something was caught, then able to bust out. It’s the first time that has happened and it makes me regret not getting a video of it. I wonder if it had help from the outside…
Any opinions on this? I’ve been looking at pics of Sugar Pearl online and it seems different. Mine looks more like a normal apricot. …
Thanks, but i haven’t gotten any apricots since the very first year (before the squirrels knew it was edible) and while i enjoy the “popcorn” effect when it flowers in the spring, i think I’m going to cut it down and see if i can grow the ashmeads kernel that’s already planted/grafted there. Not that I’ll get much fruit from that… But i usually get a couple of apples.
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I am jealous of the apricot pics. I planted a Hungarian Rose from Stark Bros when I was in high school back in the 70’s. Only made one crop in over 15 years but was a nice ornamental in the corner of the yard so I got some enjoyment despite being frosted out for so long. Plum trees not much better luck with their early spring blooming. My mom canned as many as she could the year it made. I remember they ripened very fast on the tree so it was a rush to save them. Tasted great canned.
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Bob,
I copied @SpokanePeach/Kein’s pic of his Sugar Pearl here.
It is a lot lighter in color than yours. I could not find the cut-open pics of Sugar Pearl. Maybe, Kevin has the pic.
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That’s what I was thinking as well- maybe I’ll email Grandpas Orchard and ask if they had a mix-up that year.
About 6 days after the pic (3-4 days ago), I picked the NJF20. It was going bad in a few spots, but the parts that I ate were great. 21 brix.
Yesterday I picked another Arctic Glo. Very close to ripe, but I’m going to leave the rest on the tree for a few more days. They need a bit more brix to balance the strong acid flavor. It was 13-14 brix and I think it could be very good if it gets to 16-18. I have no idea how long that would take and I only have another ~5 fruit to pick.
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Those Arctic Glo are nowhere near ripe. Wait as long as you can as they are much better when they are soft. I didn’t measure the brix on mine but they were the sweetest peach/nectarine I have ever eaten.
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Thanks Scott. One I had last week was already soft, so I was worried that the rest would be soon (and attacked by animals, yellow jackets, etc). This one was firm off the tree, but softened a bit in one day on the counter. I bet it is at least what grocery stores would consider tree-ripe.
But, it sounds like they can hang a lot longer and I’ll be happy to try. This tree is close to my front door, so at least my doorbell may record what eventually eats them 
I wished I had taken some pictures of the really ripe ones I had, they looked black from a distance. They were out of this world, and I am sure they were over 20 brix.
I’m going to have to make more of that variety… I do have one tree in a good spot which is growing very well, but I want more!
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This is my Arctic Glo. I took a Clemson bag out to take pictures.
@scottfsmith
when did your Arctic Glo ripen? Mine would be about 2-3 weeks behind yours.
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In Wilmington, DE, Arctic Glo ripened for me around July 20-27
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Mine just finished yesterday…
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Thanks, Scott and Ahmad. Mine should be around the second week of August, then. Not sure if they will still be there for me.
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