My Prok fell today. So did Sunflower pawpaws.
The exterior of your Rhode Island Greening looked like a map of South America upside down😂
1 Like
True! It’s definitely got the look of a low spray fruit.
1 Like
Are you going to try ripening the kaki and hybrids inside? My Miss Kim look about as yellow as your Inchon, but they’re still on the tree for now. Glad to see that Kasandra doesn’t seem so late.
1 Like
I wanted to bring a few of the kakis inside that I’d hand pollinated before the local wildlife got to them. But I’m going to leave the others to ripen fully on the tree… and hopefully I’ll still get a taste of them.
2 Likes
I’ll be curious to hear what you thought about Prok and Sunflower once you try them.
Good to see you making crosses with an already cold hardy selection. The resulting hybrids may have a lot going for them. Your picture is probably the only other picture I’ve seen of Inchon other than those Cliff England posted.
2 Likes
Agree with Andrew about your nice pictures of lesser known persimmons. If you could take pictures of those varieties individually at a few angles, they would be good references.
I think my Prok was from your scionwood. Will let you know how about Sunflower and Prok.
3 Likes
Just in time for the holiday season, I’m getting a few Halloween peaches to ripen. This one had good flavors, but it was subtle and not so intense. Could be because of how wet the growing season was, and how chilly the nights have been.
Nice fall color on a seedling hybrid persimmon. The seed parent of this one is JT-02.
Stark Black Gem blackberry. These plants were slow to grow. But now that they’re finally pumping out some fruits, I’m impressed. Really big berries (hard to tell from the picture) that are super sweet and delicious. For some reason, they’re not getting much SWD pressure either.
Some highlight figs of the week.
12 Likes
We’ve been having a nice stretch of warm weather in my area, so I took a mid-week trip to the orchard to see what was ripe.
Last of the Halloween peaches
Some Prok persimmons and a few from one of my hybrid seedlings
Lots of figs
11 Likes
How was the taste of your seedling persimmon hybrid?
2 Likes
Great. Rich and no astringency. A bit seedy though because of all the hybrid males I have.
1 Like
What was it a seedling of? I assume you know from which fruit it was but not which pollinator?
1 Like
It’s this same one that I’d posted about earlier. The first fruit was bird pecked and so ripened early. The rest are starting to ripen up now.
6 Likes
Beautiful figs!
1 Like
@SMC_zone6 Do you grow Nikita’s Gift and is it comparable in size to Inchon if you’ve fruited it?
1 Like
I tried growing it for a few years, but it kept dying back from our winters. So I grafted over it with JT-02.
1 Like
That’s very interesting, albeit unfortunate, that Nikita’s Gift kept dying but Inchon is doing well for you despite Inchon being a kaki.
Thanks for showing a size comparison of your persimmons. 100-46 is looking mighty nice. I tried my first one the other day that fell but it had an astringent aftertaste. It definitely has precocity going for it here.
1 Like
Absolutely. !00-46 sets a massive crop each year. But you’re right that it doesn’t lose its astringency as quickly/well as some of the others. I actually picked a bunch of semi-ripe ones over the weekend that I’m going to try dehydrating tonight. Hopefully that process knocks the astringency right out of them.
1 Like
