Some of these White transparent seem to be about 2 weeks from ripening. Way too early…
Btw, does anyone know of any named varieties? They are all marketed as josta and I’ve noticed one german dwarf variety, but nothing else.
Harvested about a third of my apricots and various berries today. Tree ripened apricots are by far the best I’ve ever had.
Belmac apple
This Apple tree with 6 grafts seems to be happy. Easy to protect the two apples I let it hold
You guus all seems ahead of me.
Apricot unk variety - prob close to 50 yr old tree.
50 years is a nice age for an apricot. I’m not far ahead at all. Still very much green. I would seem that whole everything else is very early, apricots might be right on schedule here.
The photos don’t show much, but all my Flavor Grenade pluots are a lighter green with many starting to get a spot of red blush usually at the tip or along the “seam”.
Also the skin is a bit bumpy on the fruit. I assume this is normal.
I will pull one when I get home this evening to try and get a weight and taste. I’m impressed at their size, especially as other plum like Santa Rosa, are really small.
Rolling River Red. Over half cracked, but those that didnt have sweet cherry/plum flavor with thick snappy skin. Very tasty. The only plum that has shown black knot in my orchard.
My 2024 apple crop is looking very promising at this point. I have a little bit of CAR . . . but go around plucking off leaves. Not a big problem yet. Some of my 2021-22 scions are producing apples and that is exciting! Thanks to all who shared scions with me!
Have Monarks and Macouns for the first time. Winecrisps too. Sadly, none of my coveted Eso Spitz scions survived the fireblight ‘epidemic’ of last year. 
But, I quickly cut them down past the infection - and at least it did not spread into the original tree.
Still waiting on certain slow producers to pan out . . . Sinta. Arkansas Black. Akane. American Golden Russet - are a few. Their tardiness may be due to their location on the tree. I may cut scions from the scions this winter and regraft to a higher branch on the trees.
Lookin’ Good . . . pics below.
We netted our favorite stone fruit trees over the past few weekends . . and in the process ‘unintentionally’ further thinned the developing fruit. Yesterday I discovered one of my only 2 Yum Yum nectarines was dangling by a torn stem. Sigh. All hope is riding on that last one - to get a taste of ‘YumYum’ this summer. Darn! And it was so pretty!
Starlings’ assorted selection.
All of these were planted by birds. The ones on the left are the size of decent commercial varieties, just richer in flavour and will get propagated. The ones on the right, both pale and red are translucent. In sunlight, they look like garnets and you can actually see the pits. Some of the smaller red and dark ones are nothing you’d choose to eat twice, but it’s fun to see and taste what the birds dragged in. There are plenty of huge heirloom cherry trees in the region both in villages and lining the roads. I guess the small stuff comes from the oak and beech forests about 3km away and those trees also grow like crazy. Some that we’ve taken out in late winter had fruit the size of dried peas.
I have an interesting non-commercial plumcot that has just ripened enough to pick today.
Marianna 2624. Quite sour, little flavor.
Nice, my watermelons are way behind because last year when I directly seeded pillbugs kept eating them, so I kept them from the ground for a long time. Taking off nicely now, hoping for a few full sized melons this year since last year I only got a couple small ones. Growing orangeglo and lemon drop
