Just wanting to share my Edible banana is flowering for me here on the oregon coast. right now im stuck home truck died and the jeep is with mark in california visiting family who wont be with him long….
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I had really wet and cool weather for most of my stone fruits bloom time. The only trees that have decent crops are Shiro (of course) and my cherry trees. I don’t even get why my cherry trees all seem to have fruit on the way to ripening. The cherries all went through the same crappy weather as my other trees but they seem to have skated through it without any setbacks.
Most of my plum/cot/pluot trees look to have minimal crops.For many it is only the first or second fruiting, so It’s probably best anyways that the young trees aren’t being taxed by a lot of fruit.
I just don’t get the cherry trees. I thought they would be difficult to grow here, but it’s been quite the opposite. Almost all of my cherry trees fruited their first year in the ground, and lousy weather during blooming doesn’t seem to affect them. They also had zero issues with disease or insect infestation, and the fruit ripens long before all my other fruit trees. I grow them flat against my fence so they are easily netted so the birds don’t get them. I wish all my other trees were as easy to grow as them without any chemicals.
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For me cherries are very shy bearing. About 1 year in 10 the wild seedlings produce.
I hear you there. I neglected (or was too greedy) to thin some fruits off first year fruiting plants last season, and what I got was a lot of not the best quality fruits. This year I will be more resolute about thinning properly, lol. Seriously, though, your Beauty is LOADED. 
Ooh, exciting!!! 
I hope you get a really nice rack this season!
In spite of my bravado, when I went to do initial thinning on the Beauty I found myself spacing to about 4” between fruit which wasn’t different than I did last year. Fortunately, I can keep thinning each time I’m out there.
Some of them are sizing up fast. I went from not time to thin yet to feeling way behind in like one week. A more recent picture of Splash:
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How old is your Pakistan and what size are you maintaining it to? How has it handled colder winters? I just grafted one onto what I think is Illinois Everbearing rootstock and planted it so just curious what to expect from someone in our climate!
It died back almost to the graft union the first winter after transplant then has had little or no damage for the last maybe 10 years.
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I’ve had a series of unfortunate events in my life, so I am way behind schedule with everything. My son is coming to visit from the east coast and I am trying to figure out how I can sneak some yard work in while he’s here. Bad mom! But I find my mood is lightening the closer to his arrival, and I am noticing good things, like the fact that some of our tadpoles turned into wee little Pacific tree frogs before the pond dried up. These two aren’t even pinky fingernail sized.
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What advice do you have for raising pawpaws? 3 years and the twigs are still tiny here in zone8.
mine have been super slow too. Mulch, nitrogen, water.
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