My Asian pear had a ton of fruit little marble sized. Now it has much less. And I don’t see any on the ground. So I’m wondering if squirrels or birds got them. Time to net?
Dropping unfertilized fruit and/or aborting some is normal. Wind can carry them a couple feet.
It’s been a couple weeks of holding my breath, waiting to see how many of the avocado flowers that didn’t initially fall off would actually swell into fruit, and thankfully a few have begun at last in the past week. Here are examples of a few cultivars setting fruit for the first time in the greenhouse…
Duke (very very low fruit set, just a handful from >10,000 flowers):
Walter Hole (very high fruit set, over a hundred fruitlets on a relatively small graft):
Aravaipa (just a few but, there were only a few dozen flowers):
Linh (from @JohannsGarden, over a dozen on a relatively small graft):
Brissago (a handful on a very small graft):
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Your comment had me thinking about a newsflash:Seattle Man Sets New Guinness World Record-By Holding Breath for Two Weeks!What was His Inspiration?Growing Avocados!
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Yes. Sorry, I wrote sirup, not syrup above. This was what my paternal grandmother always made for us. It is great mixed into soda in summer. Tea or hot water in winter. You can also put a bunch of flower clusters, lemon slices and some sugar into a large pickle jar, add water, wait for 2-3 days and get a sparkly drink.
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Also, if you want to make the sparklng drink, don’t wash the flowers! It’s tge natural yeasts in pollen that kick off the fermentation.
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Nice! I’ve innoculated my garden about a month and a half ago. I wonder if I get to see any fruit this season.
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these took about 2 months to show for me when I started them last year. I spread the mycelium into another bed this year and it’s taken over there too (no show yet, but it’ll come)
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First cherry tasting today. Two examples of Starlings’ Earliest. A wild cherry cross - rich flavour with a bit of the wild acidity and a hint of bitterness:
And a marketable quality but smaller descendant of our old sweet heart-shaped cherry. Should be very dark when fully ripe, but who want’s to wait?
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Flavor Grenade Pluot already bigger than I thought they get when ripe.
4 of the largest ones here…and surprisingly I didn’t thin these two pair…
One pair are the only fruit in a branch only about a foot long. It may be my imagination but they appear to be lightening up on color.
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Planted the Jonafree I grafted to G935.
Year or two to catch up? (20+ year old probably Winesap that’s got… many problems.)
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All these loquats are huge!
My only reference is whatever variety was on the corner of my street in the 70’s.
As an adult I’ve always imagined loquat would make a great liquor.
This year the loquat fruit size is larger than previous years. I guess it’s because this year the tree bears fewer fruits. Fruit thinning by nature.
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I’m doing the same
Also need to add more bags as they are starting to size up, the cat birds are already interested
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you guys must have different birds as mine rarely get touched. maybe its a water thing as i have a marsh next door to me.
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