Here is my strange list of prunus blooms in order this year
prunus angustifolia wast first around the 1st week of Feb
Next was my pluots and pluerries on myrobalan that started about the 2nd week of feb
Nankings started about a week after those but again one waited until March and I have it flagged.
My myrobalan started blooming last week along with greengage & bonfire peach
The strangest of all is I have pluots grafted on nanking that have yet to bloom but are swelling now. If grafting on nanking can delay flowering in pluots thatās going to be wonderful for us in SC. I was going to graft Shiro on my mybroalan but now I think Iāll put it on a nanking and see what happens.
My first nanking was from Gurneyās called Sugar sweet but it was likely just a seedling nanking. Still It was the only one I had for about 3 years and I got fruit without another one around. That said I still had plum trees around so it may have been pollinated by a neighboring plum tree but with just 1 plant I did get fruit which is the reason I started more from seed. They are far from sugar sweet but are kind of tasty and the kids really like them. Most years the frost gets them so we donāt get fruit but when we do there is more fruit then foliage.
This is my most productive nanking bush. It grows lower than others and is loaded with blooms about a week after most nankings, the fruit is normal for a nanking.
Same here, they just wilt in spring or die over winter. I think it is partly because no one has isolated a good one and grafted it. The seedlings seem to vary quite a bit as you would expect.
For sure, I think something is odd about nankings though, I planted four about thirty years ago at moms and dads , two are still alive and two died many years ago. I planted twenty seedlings here and some do great and others grow well and die. Still some mysterious to solve I think
How depressing, those little buggers. I have them here too. I took hardware cloth and wrapped trunks and branches on my bushes last fall. They got six of my fruit trees last year. They hang out under my bird feeder in the winter and bore tunnels up to eat the seed that falls.
Itās not monilinia doing it here. There are no signs of anything they look good flower then die Iāve lost 3 out of the 20 something I have over the past 4 years. It may be voles, they tear my lily bulbs up so if they like nankings then I may have to rethink about using them as rootstocks.
Edited to add all the ones lost where seedlings. My sugar sweet is my oldest and still kicking.
i had 2ft. wire cages around mine but our snow is a lot deeper than that. they just tunneled up and over the wire. now i use block poison put out in 6in pieces of 3in pvc pipe set around the edge of my property. havenāt had issues for the last 4 yrs. now.
