J’adore!
I got to try a plum called “six weeks” for the first time today. It’s only on its 3rd leave so that’s great- even though there were only 3 on the whole tree. But I must say, it was a big disappointment for me. Not only did it lack sweetness, but it was actually somewhat sour- the way some plums are right around the pit or skin. Some people might like this but not me. It also is a very small plum. I left it on the tree until it was soft so I know it was ripe. Oh well, you win some, you loose some. Maybe it will improve with time.
I also had pink lemonade blueberries, assorted other Blueberries, some Bruce plums (these are quite large and not at all sour but also not as sweet as I like and a strong plummy taste that I’m not crazy about (wish I had a better way to describe the “plummy” taste but I don’t.
Pretty much finished my Spring Satin Pluots today, enjoyed some Yumm Yumm what nects, a handful of josephine raspberries (greatest raspberry on earth!!! too bad you can’t buy them anywhere now and I’ve let mine almost all go). Ahh…nothing like walking around and grazing! ha
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I have been eating various berries and cherries, but I don’t feel like the fruit season has really begun until the apricots start coming in. Yum, delicious!!
These are Ilona, quickly becoming my favorite.
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What a beautiful harvest you have. Every year I admire your agricultural accomplishments, and I hope that one day I will also be able to produce some of these fruits, especially apricots and plums.
I have harvested a couple hundred Japanese beetles, they are marinating in a solution of water with a bit of dish soap.
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Smoothie seed grown black raspberries (in today’s smoothie), parsley in my French vinaigrette dressing and lettuce from the garden in my salad. Small steps to self sufficiency.
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Fantastic Scott. Too early for brown rot?
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I don’t get brown rot any more, after I switched to my current Indar/Elevate combo. One less thing to worry about, it feels good! Of course it seems like when you solve one orchard problem two new ones show up. This year the fruit flies (SWD I expect) ruined all my sour cherries, and of course the cicadas made an ugly mess of everything.
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Darned insects. You’re right another pest of some sort will show up! Its very different here. I see insect holes in leaves but have no idea what the insects that are eating them look like. I see flies, wasps and about three types of bees. No curculio, no squirrels! Also getting used to zone 9a-b, is incredible. No mold either. My biggest challenge this year was of all things the aphid! I’m afraid I lost my calville blanc. I will replace it this fall with an Abat Fetel pear. There is some oozing of sap but copper knocks it out, happens rarely… No brown rot or black knot. Just nasty aphids!
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Ram does your pakistan drop a lot of immature fruits? do they all ripen for you well? i had a lot of fruit drop again this year.
Nikita Pineapple Guava Flowers PNW Gardening
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While waiting for the fruit to set any year now! I shall enjoy the sweet floral petals from my pineapple guava plant.
Depending on the cultivar pineapple guavas, flowers all taste different. Nikita has a very floral flavor, almost like eating a rose. I don’t particularly like rose flavor, last year another cultivar had a cotton candy flavor which I really love.
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It looks like Nadia might be my earliest ripening stone fruit to ripen. I was expecting it might be Shiro or Methley. None of the ripening charts I’ve found online include Nadia.
It was not ripe, it was a drop that I decided to taste. Pretty tart but I could get a sense of some of the flavor it will have when ripe. I can tell I’m going to like it. It’s really the only plum/interspecific that is coloring up. Well except for Shiro, it’s beginning to turn that yellowish green on its way to yellow.
Since this will be my first actual harvest year I am going to track ripening times on all of my varieties. Then next year I’ll have a better sense of what to expect.
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I did not pick Nadia until late Aug to early Sept. I tend to let my fruit hang a long time. The inside was dark red if my memory serves me right.
Hi Kim,
I’ve never had Pakistan drop fruits for me. It fruited for the first time last time and didnt drop any fruit either last year or this year. It was grafted 2 years ago.
On the other hand, white pakistan dropped all its fruits last year and half its fruits this year.
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Beautitful!
My Nikita has grown a lot this year but zero flowers or buds. I wonder why.
OTOH Abbadabba is loaded with flowers as also Kakariki – a New Zealand variety. None of my other varieties including seedlings have any blossoms.
Really? That late? Id assume I might be a week or two ahead of you but not much. Even if mine is two weeks away from ripening, that sounds way off.
My bad. I checked old posts. Picked Nadia in late July and into Aug. the one in the pic was picked in Aug.
The color of Nadia’s skin and the size comparison with a golf ball.
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If I were you, I would wait until mid/late July.