… and bees.
Grapevine finally flowering
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Is it better than last year? I remember it didn’t strike as anything special then.
It is absolutely fantastic! And loaded this year. It doesn’t hurt that it is my first nectarine ripening. I will have to fight the wife and kids for them, and they are normally ambivalent about my fruit.
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Great to hear! Mine was not very good last year, so I hope it is better this year. I had to pick them a little early last year, before the birds and Brown Rot. This year I think I have better strategy for both.
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That looks great. Remind me how you manage peach leaf curl please.
Previous season I experimented with H202 followed by Serenade starting December until the bloom spraying every week. This year I sprayed twice with LS first week of January and around Valentines day.
I will be moving the first spray to mid/late October when leaves starts to drop. This recommendation by OSU to spray in October and end of February makes sense since it controls the inoculum much earlier in its ascospore stage before they are ready to infect in late winter.
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Night time is the right time to pick cherry plums! Ripe ones stick out like sore thumbs. Rolling River Red in the foreground and Catherine Bunnell in the back.
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Those Spring Satins are gorgeous! I have some . . . but nowhere near as pretty or plentiful.
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My Shiros (all grafts on a Toka plum) set a crazy amount of fruit! But mine are all green/yellow. No blush at all. ???
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Getting there (Georgia Gem blueberry)
Almost…
Won’t be long now.
(hopefully) Hawkeye Delicious. They’re already as large as the their first fruiting last year.
Mutsu
Chinquapin
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My apricots started dropping on their own. Seems as though they ripened overnight. So, I decided to pull any that came off easily. So pretty. These are mostly Harcots.
I did the same with Spring Satin. And they seem to have doubled in size over the last few days. I didn’t realize that they would get this big. My other ‘plums’ are all quite small. 'Wanted to grab them before the raccoons and possums did. Here are a few.
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Those look fabulous! im drooling! i grafted 2 harcot and 2 hoyt montrose i think from ones you sent to me. all took and pushing good growth, grafted onto my black ice plum. hopefully they fruit next year. its loaded with plums right now. also has brookcot and canadian plum grafted to it. the canadian set about a doz. fruit for the 1st time. the brookcot branch was kinda stunted so i removed the top of the central leader above it. it should catch up with the others over this summer.
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Flavor Grenade Pluot lightning up in color. Smaller fruit than last year. Thinned twice but still a heavy crop.
This is the perfectly sized tree for me.
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