Picked a whole bunch of blackberries today and fed them to the chickens. I made a short video regarding this experience. These were prime ark freedom.
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What plum is it. My experience similar to yours.
Also, tastes for plum varies a lot person to person. My friend came over and, of the ones ripe right now prefers Shiro then Santa Rosa then AU Producer and Nadia which isn’t ripe.
I like AU Producer the best this year. Nadia doesn’t have the cherry twist it did 2 years ago.
I like most J plum as long as it has plum flavor and texture. Especially, the soft and juicy ones. In my area, plum season just started a week or so ago. There many plums are still in the process of ripening. This is a good year for plum but I also got worst PC problem and black knot problem even though I kept up spray schedules.
My neighbors unknown variety produces a very nice and tasty plum. I am growing some of the suckers from this tree to see if they produce similar fruit. His tree is a mature plum and I cannot determine if it was grafted, but I suspect it may be a native as the leaves of all sucker shoots are identical to the parent.
I am grafting some cherry plum onto the older tree to attempt to improve pollination and production of its high quality fruit
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Pristine Apple. Small but tasty. Much better after setting a week in the fruit bowl. Nice balance between acidity and sweetness. Not overly complex but a nice early apple.
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How many sprays you did to have such unblemished fruit?
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Believe it or not…zero. The only thing we do…some Japanese beetle traps scattered throughout the orchard. We thin out the damaged stuff…but this year has been cleaner than normal. I don’t think that I saw one stink bug and PC damage was lighter than normal. Most early damage seemed to be from caterpillars (chewing damage)…and not so many “pokes” with sap oozing.
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That is fantastic, it was my dream but my dream lasted only 2 years (from fruiting). All the pests and fungal diseases found my trees by year 3
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saw a few stink bugs in the strawberries but bug pressure was way down here as well. had some cane borer damage in the cane fruit but not bad enough to warrant a spray. even the cherries have remained clean with little care.
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Gold dust peach and sweet treat pluerry. The sweet treat will only get sweeter over the next several weeks, very long hang time.
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Flavor supreme Pluot, very good. I would say similar to candy heart pluerry, maybe just a touch more tartness in the skin
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Looks like I’ll finally get to taste these. Should’ve put on the baffle before they got most of the fruit. Happy that it’s working out so far.
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Opal is ripe， very early for E plum and honey sweet
Shiro also. The peaches are Reliance on small side
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Those looked beautiful.
I did not think my Opal was true to label as the ripening was later and they were not any good. I think I removed the graft.
Opal in my yard is very reliable producer I am happy with it
Our wild volonteer raspberry is loaded with berries and they are quite big. 2021 is a horrible fruit and garden year so I am very excited about these berries! Since they grow right next to our barn, they are somewhat protected from the rain.
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SWD came in with a vengeance this year… A thorough spray of Spinosad and the blackberries are much cleaner now. Triple Crown, PAF, Navaho and perhaps a few others. Just a few Climax blueberries starting to ripen as well.
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that has to be a bred cultivar. probably a bird spread it. ive never seen a wild raspberry produce any fruit near as big as that. nice berries! my royalty, acc eden, cascade gold and another unknown variety all are producing for me right now.
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