It and my red candidace seedless about same time to ripen
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Color of splash so beautiful. Theirs size about haft of Nadia average Jafar?
This year they were significantly smaller than Nadia, but Nadia didnāt set very heavily this year, which increases fruit size, and Splash way overset, which decreased the fruit size.
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Very interesting about splash Pluot. I planting it for sure. Maybe will take a few years to fruit. Its growing shape more straight up or spread? I couldnāt find the gardeners report about Sprite and Delight Cherry Plum much yet . Still doubted about theirs fruit quality. If you live close by next year we will exchange between splash and sweet treat for tasting quality Jafar.
My branches are bent over with fruit, otherwise pretty upright I think.
Itās on a 4 in 1 tree, on the West side.
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Good to know to prepare room for it. I have about 12 ft. Itās better if only one tree in there. Thank you Jafar.
I was sure Iād posted a picture of the Splash fruit set a month or two ago, but not sure in which thread.
Yes, back on July 11th in this thread are a couple of pictures. But I guess not the whole tree. Iāll try to take one. but Iāve just pruned off some of the vertical growth because I like to be able to mostly work with the tree from the ground:
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This is the Interlaken at my local nursery. Itās growing under an overhead frame thatās covered with clear corrugated roofing. Youād think the plastic covering would have cooked the grapes but they are doing fine. Taste very sweet!
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Thatās a neat location for them! It does look similar to mine. Seems to have a similar ripening time as well.
I ate a couple of Prime-Ark Freedomberries today and they tasted unusually good. I tested one on the refractometer, and was surprised.
The temperature was 73F.
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2nd leaf candy heart had a single fruit, I ate it today, it was good. small (about 1.75") but sweet. I have it as santa rosa +49 so I should still be waiting a couple weeks I think, but I guess it was early since it was the only fruit? or maybe the charts arenāt perfect yet since itās still newish
my phone is embellishing the colors on these but itās pretty enough:
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Splash ripens over several weeks. They are past the peak ripeness, but some are still not fully ripe. Probably another reason why its not a commercial variety in spite of its many great qualities including being a Dave Wilson taste test winner.
We had really strong winds today and several trees lost most of their leaves, including my Splash pluot. But it also did me the favor of culling the overripe and rotting fruits:
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Wondering whether Seattle/Portland/Eugene area fig growers are seeing an unusually large main crop on Desert King figs.
Iām always pulling up the rear in ripening times so my breba crop is just finishing here but the tree is loaded with larger than normal main crop figs. These never ripen for me, and Iāve heard that they lack in taste, but wonder if more south sound growers have had a good-tasting main crop ripen this year. This is my probably doomed main crop:
No we also have a very large main crop, but probably need to be towards souther Oregon for them to ripen, in 20 years Iāve never seen one ripen!
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Gathered my last plums for the season yesterday, the trees that produce them are volunteers and seem to be my most reliable plum in bad years like we are seeing in the region. Not certain of the variety, but they look a lot like green gage. Maybe @Vincent_8B can compare these with his Rosy Gage? Note the variation in size, but they are certainly very sweet, a big reward for waiting for these trees to produce fruit, been watching them grow like native plums for about 29 years since I moved here!
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They ripen atleast a few each year for me. Not a lot.
They taste ok. Mainly because they come in when itās cold and rainy.
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@DennisD your āvolunteerā plums look a lot like St Julien type which is used as rootstock, but makes absolutely delicious, ugly green plums.
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Yeah, we had a discussion maybe 10 years ago on the Home Orchard Society forum where Lon Rombough suggested that my unknown tree could be St Julien based on my description.
Iāve since convinced myself that it is Green Gage. And I have some St. Julien flowering but only producing the odd fruit or two. They are quite late ripening.
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Hi Ram,
I believe you told me yours are in pots? That is probably the difference, mine are all in ground. I have wondered what happens to the roots of potted figs? Do you prune them off when they protrude out of the drainage holes? And what do you feed them to keep them going each year? I am thinking about trying a potted one, but I need to find some larger pots.
Dennis
They could be. I suspect my neighbor are some plums and thru out the seeds which led to these trees. There are green ones and red ones. Reds are quite larger but this year only about 5 were produced on trees that produced about 20 last year. Both are clear stones and very nice. But the greenies are the sweetest.
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