This is not a leaf curl disease resistant peach. I didn’t do anything yet. This is first leaf. I bought this one from Costco by mistake and kept it in container under rain protection just moved it out last spring after raining season. Then it set fruit. @Helmer
I am impressed with PixZee dwarf peach, planted this bare root sometime in March in a large pot and it produced more fruit than all my trees in the ground combined. I have picked 8-9 peaches and another 10 still ripening.
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this year’s email from broadacres grape u pick -
Hello grape lovers, We are opening for tasting and u-pick on Aug31 -Sept 1 Labor Day weekend from 9 to 4 both days. We will do the same for all weekends in Sept. Our address is 9993 Broadacres Rd
NE Hubbard Or 97032. Please tell your friends about the changes so they can come taste our great grapes. Thanks for your support.
Ray Ethell.
It’s been a bit since I mentioned it in this thread, so just a reminder that I’m organizing an avocado trial out of my yard here in Seattle, and always looking for more people in this area that are interested in planting seedlings of allegedly cold-hardy varieties to test them in our climate.
PM me for details, I’ve been delivering trees by the dozens (free!) in the last few weeks and still have a hundred or so that will need to be planted out or potted up this fall. I’ll be distributing larger trees (some of them grafted) in spring, but currently just doing first-year trees in deepots like the one I just planted for this post:
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If anyone is going to broadacres grape u pick this weekend or the next couple of weekends, I’d love to hear a report.
Really want to go but can’t justify the 12 hr roundtrip!
@DennisD sounds like the problem I have with a couple of the Japanese varieties. When you looked under with the microscope, did you notice any type of fungus? That’s what I noticed with mine so I’ll likely try some fungal spray next year.
Actually I did see aphids a few days later using my iPhone magnifier, I could see the very tiny one crawling around. So Brady had pegged it. This next spring I will use his recipe for treating prior to and during bud swell on all my plums. Here I also have the larger green flying aphids which I also have to treat. Hopefully Brady’s recipe works for both.
Dennis
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For those who might be looking: zenith Holland in des Moines has vintage raspberry.
I bought one with a raspberry on it and it gave me a fizzy like zing to it when i ate it 
not sure if this is normal or not but i love it! Not very sweet but very flavorful. Kind of weird.
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Growing VDB fig in a pot this year, does anyone know if these fruitlets will ripen in Portland, OR before it’s too cold.
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I get some of the main crop to ripen maybe 1 year out of 5 for VdB. They ripen a week or more earlier at my old place.
Last year I was getting ripe fruit in October.
Oct 5, 2023:
Oct 19, 2023
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Nice, hope we get warm spell until October.
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Changing the topic to apple pests, I noticed something interesting about Apple Maggots this year. They have been a serious problem here in the Vancouver, BC, area ever since they showed up in 2014. We have no effective pesticide available to home gardeners, but they are worst on red apples. Early and late green apples are not bothered as much.
However, this year I had my first real Red Gravenstein crop and found that these apples are resistant to the maggots in spite of growing on the same tree and ripening at the same time as badly affected Akane apples. Has anyone else here noticed this property of Red Gravenstein apples?
I wonder if there are other maggot-resistant red apples. I couldn’t find any discussion of this topic.
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My experience was polar opposite with ‘Gravenstein’ being consistently my worst affected apple. It was so bad year after year that I eventually cut it down and had a bonfire over its stump to ensure it wouldn’t grow back. One of my most consistently resistant apples (to apple maggots) has been ‘Scarlet Sentinel’ which has red skin. I’ve not found any correlation between skin color and resistance. I think softer apples are more susceptible than firmer apples on average and supplementing my trees with calcium (which helps them develop a sturdier cell structure) has resulted in noticeably lower apple maggot pressure.
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Was your Gravenstein the regular variety or the Red Gravenstein, which is much darker red and has no striping? There might be a difference in susceptibility to maggots.
It may not be color that makes a difference; perhaps it’s ripening time. My earliest apple, Yellow Transparent, never has maggots; and I noticed very few maggots in the Akane apples that dropped prematurely due to Codling Moth larvae. However, later harvested Akane apples were loaded with maggots. My latest apples, Newtown Pippen, also have very few maggots.
Mine was purchased simply as ‘Gravenstein’ and had an overall red appearance, but was streaky and not fully solid. Given that the various strains are just from branch sports selected for minor differences I don’t think that they can explain the discrepancies in our observations about apple maggot susceptibility.
I have an old tree that I believe to be a seedling of ‘Yellow Transparent’ because it seems like a match for the variety, but doesn’t seem to be in a spot where it was likely planted by a person (though it could have been). My sister actually believes it truly is a ‘Yellow Transparent’ and not a chance seedling from it. It used to get really bad apple maggot pressure, but is one of the trees I saw huge improvement on after supplementing with calcium (which also helped firm up its fruit).
I only have a few varieties that really get affected by apple maggot. Mostly Sturmer Pippin, which is one of my best producers and keepers. I put fruit sox on them. it works.
John S
PDX OR
Quite a few stink bugs on my Triple Crown blackberries!
At first I thought the green one was a Green stinkbug. But the shell looks more like a Consperse stink bug (Euschistus conspersus). Is that right?
Can anyone ID the green/black one?
Conchuela Bug (Chlorochroa ligata).In fact,they all could be.The black ones,being immature.
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Thanks @Bradybb!
I see the distinctive yellow trim on Conchuela Bug (Species Chlorochroa ligata - Conchuela Bug - BugGuide.Net)
Species Chlorochroa ligata - Conchuela Bug - BugGuide.Net
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Is anyone here planning to attend the Seattle Area Fig Main Crop (plus misc. fruit) Tasting on Saturday the 5th of October?
Although I’m not the primary organizer, I get to provide the location this time around so the actual meeting spot will be at my nursery, south of Seattle (and east of Tacoma) near Buckley, WA.
It’s been announced on a couple other forums, but I don’t think it’s been announced here (till now). We’re planning to get started around noon and then transition to potluck & mingle time as the tasting winds down. I’m gonna donate some plants to raffle as well.
There is one catch though, we are only opening it to folks who have rsvp’d in advance so we can manage the total group size.
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