My Zaiger NectaPlum has a few flowers and flower buds left plus a lot of fruit sets.
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Such a pretty tree!
Fruit set for me has been horrible, hopefully this year will be better.
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Fruit set on our has been terrible also. It gets one more year but if it pulls this crap next season its the axe.
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It does require feeding, esp. a source of potash in the prior year.
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My Nectaplum went horribly wrong this year. Major thrip damage caused some soft spots on most all the fruit at least I think it was thrips. I am having some fungal issues as well on foliage so that could be it but I think it’s thrips. Anyway because of the damage again I think anyway lots of the fruit are dropping prematurely and have been for a few weeks. Is this a charecteristic of this variety or is the dropping likely due to the damage?
I would think damage. This will be the third year of fruit on mine and so far it sets heavy. I thin to about a fruit every foot and I may loose a couple but no different than a peach or nectarine. We like spice z it is a good white nectarine.
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I’ve been buying Spice Zee NectaPlums from a local orchard for the last couple of weeks, and I like the flavor. Very nice fruit. This year is their first substantial harvest of Spice Zee.
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I’ve never heard of this fruit tree. Does it need a pollinator? What does the fruit look and taste like?
Here are a couple of photos of the fruit from a year or two ago.To me,the flavor is like a Peach,not much Plum.They are self fertile. Brady
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Thank you!
My Spicezee is not looking too hoy these days. After growing like gangbusters last year I hacked it back this year and I may have set it back. I put 5 grafts on it this spring and only 1 honey Royale survived. The leaves have started to green but it’s not growing out like the rest of my trees.
Late afternoon photo
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That tree looks very close to the fence. Does it try to grow away from the fence? I guess it looks like fence is to the north of the tree? I’m asking because a year after I planted my peach tree, my neighbor put up a 6’ fence to the south of tree. About 4-5 ft between the tree and the fence. Now the tree tries to grow back towards the sun. Just few branches. Not sure what to do other than ripping off neighbor’s fence😁
That’s no problem. The tree grows like an informal espalier.