Fruit set on gooseberries, and sweet cherry ‘Stardust’ finally starting to bloom.
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that is quite a late bloomer. All if our sweet cherries are long past blooming. Only one sour cherry (Gerema) and some wild crosses are still going.
It’s been a weird year here! Late start usually means long growing season for us at least, so fingers crossed things catch up.
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And many of these are returning champs that didn’t get pulled totally up, came back from seed, didn’t die in the heat and snow of last year, and soon some will bloom too.
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A very interesting possibly variegated trifoliate I just noticed in my rootstock tray. Anyone ever seen a pure white trifoliate orange?
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Noticed the Texas pink pomegranate putting out a few blooms. All the grafts on it doing well also (parfianka and red silk)
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Looks like it won’t last long, with no ability to photosynthesize. I’ve heard of people grafting “albino” seedlings onto normal trees to grow them out a bit as a novelty, but usually they die soon after they run out of the energy stored in their seed. I’ve seen it once with a lemon seedling, but that’s it personally. Here’s some info:
https://www.chicagobotanic.org/blog/how_to/science_activity_albino_plants
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That’s wild, I haven’t noticed but do variegated plants grow slower due to their reduced ability to photosynthesize? I’ll keep a monitor on this little seedling and see how long it lives.
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The tenth avocado variety to open its flowers in the greenhouse this spring, an unexpectedly sluggish “Stewart”:
The one that was first (more than a month ago), “Walter Hole,” is still flowering profusely:
Seems to be approaching peak flowering for the greenhouse trees. The ones that are outdoors still haven’t expanded their flower panicles much at all. Here are “Poncho” and “Del Rio” (in that order):
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Another first flower: the Physalis peruviana root ball that I rescued from a garden bed and planted in the greenhouse in October has its first flowers on the new growth that has been growing all winter since I brought it in:
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Well, my new hosui pears are in full bloom here in the Boston burbs, and there is a frost or freeze scheduled for next week… @mamuang warned me this might be emotionally difficult!
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I saw that the forecast for this Wed night will be 30. If that is the temp or worse, lower than that, we could see some damage.
Interesting. I had this happen with some maxima squash a few years back. They made it to third leaf and keeled over. Let us know if it survived!
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I only have two small pear trees…anything to be reasonably done? Do these cloth bags actually do anything?
Pluots, plums and peaches sizing up nicely
Pluots are from 2023 grafts and first year the Santa Rosa branch is producing. Peaches abundant as usual, I know people struggle with them, and I will be knocking on wood as I say this. But this is year 4 and I’ve never sprayed anything on them, and hopefully the trend will continue. One benefit to basically being the sole gardener in quite a good radius.
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A few loquat looking to begin to turn colors a bit. Really excited to try this fruit, as it’s an unnamed variety, first year producing and boy is it loaded down. I thinned quite a lot and still at least a hundred remain. My mind doing lots of calculations on how many seedlings I’m going to grow haha I’m really running out of room
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