Sugar baby watermelon, the first one. This was all I got to try…
Tomatoes, cucumbers, Mexican sour gherkin/mouse melon/etc
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Got my first flower ever on my Cherry-Apricot (prunus salicina x armeniaca hybrid). Then it got hit by various pest and funghi. Dropped all the fruit😔 or so i thought! When picking rasberries this morning i found 1 single fruit on the tree, close to ripening!
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Yes, they are.
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@Shuimitao I think actually that is Indian hawthorn. They have pink flowers in spring and fruit like this in late summer however I’m unaware if it’s edible.
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Sorry I don’t agree, hawthorn leaves are more glossy and not serrated. Pictures in the post above pretty clearly sure leaves that are of the aronia. Also, if you compare the berries. Hawthorns I’m familiar with are also bushes not tall tree like shrubs like the wild ones I’ve found of Aronia.
I attached a picture of the Indian hawthorn for reference
Please do some more research since plants can differ in different areas and I can also be wrong but if you come to the conclusion it’s Aronia then it is a superfood, but cook it first!
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Yeah I agree also I see they are zone 7. Here Indian hawthorn is a very common landscape plant for businesses and residential, however I think zone 8 is as low as they go. I’ve never seen aronia berry growing so I went with what is common around me in a knee jerk reaction. Good eye on the leaf serration, I agree the leaves are not glossy enough to be Indian hawthorn. My fault, thanks for the correction
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Nero fruit for reference:
And BTW has anyone noticed their wilting aronia berries rehydrate after decent rain?
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Tasmanian apple berries have been ripening the past few weeks.
You can bite off the end and pour the seeds out like a cup. Weird fruit, for sure.
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Tasted pink pearl today. Pink peeking through the skin. A little more tart than last year but I harvested those quite late. Fruity with strong berry taste.
Love the pink! I’m going to add to a salad.
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It sure looks like what I have seen of Aronia. Just like elderberry though you want cook 'em.
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Your Apple
That Pink Pearl looks great, Regina!
My Melons
I took some pictures of this melon which seems to have grown overnight!
One of those Tuscan melons, like they sell at Costco. I can’t believe that the vines set fruit. They grew and grew for quite awhile - with flowers - but no sign of fruit.
Then - found this guy at about 1/5 this size - just a week ago.
Here it is with some of its friends. I hope they survive to mature. Fingers Crossed!
I don’t know what happened to this one! A throwback to its ancestors’ watermelon genes?
First Pomegranates! Hotuni Zigar
One looks good . . . and the other looks BAD. I’ll cut them tomorrow and see what the real story is.
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fruit is not present right now, it’s either done- berries- or still ripening- apples and plums, melons and figs.
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How are you getting ripe Kumquats in august? Haha that’s wild, much larger than my marumi but mine don’t ripen until approximately thanksgiving
Last nights harvest:
Yes, that is ONE mulberry from our Issai Everbearing mulberry that we planted earlier this year, 2nd crop of the year. Also, Caroline and Anne raspberries are fruiting now.
Caroline might be the raspberry flavor we’ve been looking for, and the berries are huge, wow! Doesn’t have the vigor of Joan J though…. yet.
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Potted in a greenhouse. The size this time is very unusual.
Just walked around to see how everything is doing after a couple weeks in the care of a neighborhood teenager, and no major casualties. The citrus are starting to size up a bit…
Persian lime (cultivar unknown):
VI-396:
Kishu (seedless):
Only two of the figs are holding any main crop fruit, but this is only the second full growing season for most of them since rooting. This one is Takoma Violet, and the only fig it has set:
The only other one holding figs (6 or 7 in total) is Parise’s Purple, an unknown Italian fig that has been grown in NJ successfully since mid-20th century, but not previously tested in PNW:
The Brissago avocado in my greenhouse is still looking good, it has a long way to go:
Most of my feijoa still look like they did at petal drop, but a few are starting to swell a little bit, like this one:
I also spotted one last rootstock branch still flowering:
Its Myrtaceae cousin, Luma apiculata, didn’t flower at all during the normal late spring time, but about half of the branches recently burst with flowers… I’ll be curious to see if any fruit manage to ripen in late fall or even winter:
The only thing still producing prolifically is this patch of Fragaria vesca (according to the seed seller, but it looks more like virginiana to me, I think?), which are also starting to taste a little better in the peak summer weather (this middle one is a bit overripe though):
Very first watermelons starting to set… it’ll be a race against time, don’t really see how they can ripen in time:
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when did you plant your melons? i started mine in ground in mid May. i have a crimson sweet about the size of a basketball and a bunch smaller and 4 blacktail mountain about the size of a softball and they get shaded by my Georgia candy roaster squash that wants to swallow them constantly.
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