Here's some blooms of stone fruit

My Mirabelle de Sept is a tree, de Nancy is grafted.

Here is my Blue Damson. Thanks to @thecityman


They say its self fertile but set no fruit after blooming last year. Bloom ahead of any plum Euro plums.

Correction. Several Asian plums start to bloom today, a day after damson. Unfortunately, it has been raining since last night and will rain 6 outof the next 7 days. Bad timing. We’ll see how severe continuous rain like this would impact fruit setting.

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That happened to me with all of my plums. Blossom drop. Ugh

My Freckled Face nectarine from Costco planted last year and forgot to top it. Just did a couple of weeks ago. The surviving branches have some blooms this year. Hope for fruit set.

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I have a white vinyl fence around my back yard. The fence faces Southeast, so there is a lot of sunlight reflected off of it. The additional reflected sunlight has a significant affect on the fruit tree branches close to the fence. Here are PF24C blooms close to the fence:


Below are blooms on the opposite side of the tree, away from the fence:

The fruit next to the fence ripens earlier as well.

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I think that’s a Burchell Nursery product.Nice!I hope there is fruit also.bb

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Those look great, Tippy! Just remember that I warned you that I had not gotten fruit from my Blue Damson at the time I sent you that, so there is always a chance it isn’t what it purports to be. However, I’m very confident in it for several reasons. Its a late bloomer, it was a VERY slow grower (as almost all my Euro plums are), the blooms look right from photos I’ve seen of blue damson blooms, and last year I had a single plum that made it about 80% to ripeness and it looked right.

Hopefully I can confirm 100% in a few months…my tree has the most plums it has ever had (though still pretty light load). People say its not a great fresh eating plum but better for jam/jelly. I’ll let you know if you don’t get yours first!

Those look great! Just remember that I warned you that I had not gotten fruit from my Blue Damson at the time I sent you that, so there is always a chance it isn’t what it purports to be. However, I’m pretty confident in it for several reasons. Its a late bloomer, it was a VERY slow grower (as almost all my Euro plums are), the blooms look right from photos I’ve seen of damson blooms, and last year I had a single plum that made it about 80% to ripeness and it looked right.

Hopefully I can confirm 100% in a few months…my tree has the most plums it has ever had (though still pretty light load).

It has grown very fast but no flowers for the past 4 years. I will remove a large branch soon. It takes up too much space with no yield :tired_face:

My one and only bloom of September Free nectarine. Just bought a few weeks ago.

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Large,showy flower,I like it

Annie,
So far, all my nectarines, Easternglo, Arctic Star, Arctic Jay, Freckled Face and September Free all have showy blooms.

@Olpea probably could tell you whether or not it is true that most nectarines have showy blooms. Unfortunately, it does not mean that fruit taste as nice as their flowers look. I have only eaten Arctic Star and Easternglo. Love Arctic Star ( sweet, white flesh). I don’t like Easternglo, nothing to write home about.

Here’s Foster peach, a very nice peach. Non-showy flowers but it has a fantastic taste.

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Tippy,

Nectarines can have either showy or non-showy blooms. The gene which determines showy blooms is recessive to the gene which makes non-showy blooms. So, a showy peach/nectarine flower which is pollinized by another showy bloom will always produce a tree with showy blooms. Whereas a peach/nect with non-showy blooms may produce an offspring with showy or non-showy blooms.

That gene is independent of the gene which controls pubescence. That gene is missing in nects.

For some reason though, most nects do have showy blooms, but there are some which are non-showy.

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Most of the nectarine have showy flowers but I picked Snow Queen nectarines which has no showy flowers😿

Annie, Don’t buy lotteries anytime soon :wink:

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:joy::joy::joy:

These are first year’s blooms. If you think I’ve got wrong varieties, please let me know.

Arctic Jay.

And Silver Gem

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Nice flowers. My peaches leaf out but no flowers. Apricot are the same, no flowers. Usually apricot blooms first then plum, pear , peach follow. This year I think I only have plum and pear flowers. It was too cold this past?winter in Chicago

This is my superior

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Sorry to hear that. Both of my Honey Crisp and Gold Rush are going biennial on the same year :weary: