I let that supersweet tree get brown rot really bad for the first 5 years it fruited, but it got frosted out a few times as well. Three years ago i got serious about spraying and orchard hygiene and captan allowed me to get a nice harvest from that tree and a handful of young peaches. This is the third year cropping several peaches and brown rot hasnt been a problem with them.
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I would have described it as melting:melting_face:
. It was still firm enough to cut into slices. Not a fan of mush either, but the brix probably biased me a little.
Pictures can be deceiving, but the first one with the bite out of it looks loose and stringy. If you can slice it and the pieces hold their shape, then count me in.
Don’t get me wrong, delicious juice or juicy pulp is worthwhile, but not compared to something you can chew to release the juices.
I do like figs and astringent persimmons.
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Thank you for the information on the pictures Jose. I noticed this variety is subacid, is that your preference for flavor or it just so happens that this varieties overall flavor, including the sub, is what you like?
Did you finally end up planting any of those ice nectarines?
Hi Michael.
Yes, I prefer stone fruit with a subacid flavor and high brix levels.
I not like the acidity in stone fruit, except in pavias (canning peaches type ).
If you mean white flesh nectarines, I have a lot of varieties in my collection, this one is really excellent.
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Best regards
Jose
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Could be that timing is critical with Captan.
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Jose, a couple of years ago, you posted about the so-called ice white (exterior) peaches from Korea, which the Italians call Giacco or ice?
And during that thread, you noted how in Portugal there was an actual white exterior white fleshed nectarine known as an ice nectarine called Nectawhite.
This caught my attention, & that is what I was talking about, Did you finally buy this Nectawhite tree?
Like the Korean ice peaches, is this Portuguese Ice nectarine also subacid?
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The first nectarines I’ve ever harvested. John Rivers (got the tree from Arboreum Co). 15 brix, kinda low for nectarines but on the other hand that’s good for such an early stone fruit around here. Seems to be at least a week before Redhaven peaches. Tasty. Very juicy but a little stringy. I think the tree is only three years old. * Edit … just had another one that hit 20 brix. These definitely have acid also. Pretty good. I can’t easily grow many nectarines so I’m happy so far with this one.
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Getting a few early Silver Gems. A very nice nectarine with a lot of sweetness and a lot of acidity.
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Very pretty!
I love both my Harko and Mericrest nectarines, but wish I’d paid more attention to harvest dates, because they both ripen together. Next year I plan to ‘thin the heck’ out of them. We just don’t need as much fruit as we got this year!
I will be considering grafting some earlier nectarines to them - and later ones, too.
I’ve posted elsewhere on the forum, that all the rain we’ve had has toned down the flavor of all of the stone fruit. That is disappointing. I only sprayed 3 times - but luckily, the sprays must have been at really good times, because I had very little damage. I did use Imidan once - which tamed the PC damage. That stuff is so stinky, tho . . . and the particles so fine. It’s scary. I switch up my other weapons - between Bonide Plant and Fruit Guard / Indar & Infuse /and Bonide Fruit Tree Spray. Sometimes Immunox.
Seems like I always encounter some problem that keeps me from spraying when I think I should. Flat tires. Lawn mower that I use to drag my sprayer around - won’t start. Sprayer issues. But, even so . . . it seems like whatever I managed to do with spraying worked out pretty well. Surprising.
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Just grabbed the first Mericrests of the season off the tree yesterday and it was excellent! Even better than the few I got last year. I did not time my second PC spray well this year and lost about 50 nectarines which I am now regretting even more
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I love Mericrest and Harko. Now I need to find an earlier variety - and a later variety - so that I don’t get so many - so quickly. Any suggestions??? Anyone???
I was late getting my PC control done. And I did not have any brown rot. I did spray with Imidan, once, after I first noticed the PC bites. Supposedly that will kill the worm even once the fruit is bitten. And it truly does seem to do just that.
See Scott’s earlier post, from early June, about Indar. It is really good - and takes very little. Several folks on this forum have attested to its effectiveness in obliterating brown rot. And I agree that when you add up the bottom lines on the Bonide products . . . they don’t make sense if you can divide up a jug of Indar - and share its cost with others.
Just want to put my 2cents in about ‘melting’ fruit. Like @murky . . . to me, it just seems stringy and mushy. OK for a smoothie or syrup, but the texture doesn’t appeal to me at all for fresh eating. Everyone has a different preference.
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This is a Honey Kist,with Honey Blaze added.They’re getting there.
There are a number of smaller fruit,about one third normal size.Has anyone seen that happen?Maybe a pollination issue?
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Yes, I think these stemmed from unpollinated blossoms.
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Flavor Top and Arctic Glo, both are high acid/high sugar flavorful nectarines.
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Squirrels have stolen ripening donut nectarines so I picked most Snack Time an a few H 13-23 that I have left. Can’t wait until they turn totally dark.
Top row Snack Time. No rot.
Bottom row H 13-23. Some brown rot despite strong fungicide.
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I planted Independence, which is later than Mericrest. I’d like to find an earlier nect, too.
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Snack Time ripens in late July for zone 6. That is early for me. It Is a tasty donut nectarine .
I see that H 13-23 Nectarine was developed at Rutgers University.Do they supply scions?
Sean’s Poem Yellow Nectarine from Andys Orchard
Plenty of sugar spots
Medium acidity & sugar
FANTASTIC OVERALL FLAVOR
Best tasting yellow nectarine this summer so far, better than Red Diamond…the mid summer standard of flavour, better than Ruby Diamond and Diamond Ray, in a side-by-side tasting as these all peak around the same time.
Hopefully this will be made available at the 2025 Monterrey CRFG scion exchange.
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