"Best" apricot for New England (6b)?

Next to ripen for me is White Knockout, the third leaf tree is loaded with fruit, virtue of being self fruitful and an Infuse spray during bloom. Fruit is quite big, fairly sweet (even with poor thinning and heavy rain last week), have a nice, mild apricoty flavor. Overall a very good cot.

My Tomcot tree is sick (not canker), and has dropped 90% of its leaves, it has a couple of dozen fruits, some are very sour, but some are surprisingly not bad. The black spots on the fruit affect the skin only, so the fruit can still be eaten, even though they look bad.

Ilona is just starting to ripen, the fruit in the photo was fairly big, and had a sweet mild flavor. I am hopeful the quality improves towards next week.

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