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Welcome to the forum Javlonbek! I have not been able to visit your country yet, but one of my good friends in college here in the States was born in Tashkent, and I’ve been to Almaty in Kazakhstan. Central Asia is beautiful and I hope to explore more of it - fruit and otherwise.
I’m sure there are many people here who would be interested in trying to grow them. There are also a few people who have small orchards or nurseries — cc @Blake for example.
@Mcjuj I also don’t know the answer to your question, but Uzbekistan is mostly an arid, landlocked country (it is in fact doubly-landlocked: it has no bordering ocean/sea, and no country that borders it does either; true for only Uzbekistan and Liechtenstein), with very hot summers and fairly cold winters. It appears there are parts of it that are classified as a Mediterranean climate, but mostly cold desert or steppe, formally: Geography of Uzbekistan - Wikipedia.
No idea but it would certainly be interesting to learn!
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Thanks for info, @Petey. It apparently gets hot there, but also cooler than my location in the winters. We don’t know if the fruit trees are grown at elevation or other microclimates involved. Like you said, it’s worth a try.
Hello, Petey. It’s a pleasure to meet you. Yes, we have many delicious fruit plants in Central Asia. These include various types of apricots, peaches, nectarines, grapes, pomegranates, melons, watermelons, and many more. Uzbekistan is a paradise for food lovers. We look forward to welcoming you to our country.
You are absolutely right about our climate. It is very hot and dry in summer. and cold in winter.
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The breeders at a university fairly close to me used seeds from Afghanistan, I think, to produce a really sweet white apricot called Sugar Pearls. It has both high sugar and a nice acid punch. I consider it the best cot I’ve ever tasted, but this one tree on this one site (my own orchard) has not been consistently productive.
I planted the variety at another more favorable site and it bore it’s first year that it was mature enough and the year after that- very heavily both times, but I lost the orchard job when the owner died so haven’t been able to evaluate it in subsequent years. .
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I used to be interested in foreign varieties. I mostly collect a collection of grape varieties. but I’m also interested in other fruit varieties. However, after trying some commercial apricot varieties, I came to the conclusion that our varieties are the best for personal use. Our apricots are the most delicious and sweet. In contrast, foreign commercial varieties lack flavor.
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One challenge for apricot growers in most of the US is crop loss due to late spring frost. Do you have varieties that bloom later in the season than commercial varieties?
if the question is to me, I don’t know the answer to this question. I’m just an amateur gardener. and I’ve never asked this question