You’re just starting meanwhile my latest apricot, Summer Delight, is about done. It is very good and tastes a lot like Leah Cot. Leah Cot is a lot bigger. Neither tastes like most standard apricots. They’ve got a bit of a hybrid/pluot taste.
My buddy has some of my old varieties. I’m trying to get them grafted back in the GH. I could have 2-3 months of apricot.
Those do look good and I like the early feature. Doesn’t look like they have any fur either. Do they have any sour in the taste?
I’m in Idaho 6b, and this year has been a great cot year. I have harvested all the Tomcots now, which have been great. Hoyt Montrose and Zard are on the way. My Canadian White Blenheim is finally putting out a good crop this year, and they are large and excellent. Unexpectedly my favorite. It’s less productive than my Tomcot if you were comparing fruit to wood ratio, but my CWB is also a better looking tree.
I know… it’s very annoying… My only condolence for the very late season is that it allowed me to skip the spring freeze that destroyed the cot crops of friends more south than me on the east coast…
I had Summer Delight, but I removed it. It ripened its crop mid September, which is too late for me, and makes it compete with top dogs like Flavor King and Zephyr. Once the nectarine season starts, I find myself not caring for other fruit…
Little sourness, just enough to balance the flavor. It is mildly sweet too, but juicy and have classic cot flavor.
Took forever for mine to start producing, but my new favorite also. Thinking about trying some other whites.
Try White Knockout. I don’t know how productive it is, but taste is outstanding.
Will try to find it this winter. CWB taste totally different than regular apricots. Whites might be my new thing.
It is very productive in my yard, and in Davis, CA. It is self pollinating.
@ahmad - I’m up near Boston (6b, edge of maritime influence) and hoping to plant one apricot in my small space. what would you recommend? I’d particularly be interested in something earlier, so I have something to tide me over until the pears, peaches, and apples arrive.
Hi Petey,
The best cots that I have eaten are Blenheim, White Knockout (this is a misnomer, as it is actually a traditional orange apricot), Tomcot and Lasgerdi Mashhad (this is a true white). The first three are available from Bay Laurel, the fourth is not commercially available as trees (as far as I know) but you can get its scions and graft it.
Are you sure you have the right one. It’s advertised as a white cot and pretty sure others on here have said as much.
How well has that Lasgerdi Mashhad fruited for you? I’m ditching several of my varieties in favor of whites this year.
Yes, I am sure. I’d say it is closer to the orange apricots than to the whites, it is yellowish orange from inside rather than dark orange, and it does not taste like typical whites. I bought my tree from Burchell nursery, the original distributor of the variety.
Lasgerdi is a heavy producer for me, but it needs a cross pollinator and full sun.
@Marta sells both:
Burchell has it listed as a white, but from some of the pics I’ve seen it appears like it’s in between. I have it coming in trade and only wanted whites, that’s why I was questioning it.
In my book, it is not a white, does not look or taste like one, but it is excellent from every respect: self-pollinating (hence heavy production), excellent taste, big fruit, and early. It is also very pretty looking. See my earlier post where I shared its photo:
If your doing trades this year let me know. I have some interesting items to offer in trade for the other white if it has scion to spare.
Thanks!!
Thats funny, I’d call it “White”. I’d normally wonder if we have different scionwood but I know thats not the case here 
I agree that from the inside it’s more orange than the usual white. I didn’t get many fruits but it seems somewhere between the oranges and whites in flavor.
Re: your favorites, I agree on all of them but Blenheim. It was nothing exciting and was getting on the mealy side when it was ripe enough. I wonder if its not preferring less summer heat than what I have, its an English variety after all.
Blenheim should be picked when somewhat firm, otherwise it suffers pit burn and gets mealy. Your climate may be too hot for it.
Dumb question. This thread motivated me to buy some apricots from the grocery store (and be reminded of how subpar they are). I was considering trying to sprout the pits for rootstock to later graft. But would an imported chilean apricot have a hope of being suitable rootstock here?