it looks beautiful! how does the dripping honey taste compared to other asian pears?
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Tippy, I grafted Pearl to my O’Henry peach tree this year. Graft took well. I am looking forward to giving it a try as well.
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Is it really Superior? Shouldn’t it have yellowish mango like flesh? I don’t have it anymore but mine did.
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Agree with Paul. Shape looks wrong too.
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I will pick another one tomorrow. Will post a pic. Somtimes lighting could be off. I thought the shape was right.
Would youmind posting pics of your Superior?
Never took pictures, but this year crop has been gone about a month.
Mine look like these in the link below.
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AppleDine (blended apples and muscadine) fried pies. The grands and I tried these for the first time and they were asking for more. Taste somewhat like pie cherries but with a more complex flavor. Sorry but they were gone before I could take any pictures.
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Isn’t Superior very juicy also?bb
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When in doubt, I check Fedco for pics and description. The shape is similar to mine but the flesh is not. It is supposed to have yellow flesh like @Paul mentioned. Mine is not yellow flesh.
You are right.my superior has yellow flash and very soft and juicy when filly ripe
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Superior flesh is similar in color to the Toka in my pic earlier in this thread: What fruits did you eat today? - #2172 by ztom
Some shade of either amber, orange or yellow. Has a distinctive flavor similar to Toka, but probably better.
Also, the Parfume de September graft you sent me last year has a few plums on it. I guess they are just about ready. Thanks!
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Mine probably is not Superior!!!
Mirabelle grows on me. It’s like eating candies.
@ztom, when Parfume ripen, they turn from green to muted yellow. They also fall off the tree.
My excuse for not mowing my lawn that often is to allow grass to cushion fallen fruit. Small fruit like Mirabelles do not bruise by the fall.
You will be happy with its productivity, too…
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We’ve eaten these for the past few days including today.
Left to right:
Arctic Star: sweet white nectarines
Mirabelle de Nancy and Parfume de Septembre: Nancy is a tad larger, both sweet. Can’t tell the difference.
Easterglo nectarine: blend of tartness and sweetness (more on a tart side) yellow nectarines
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How sweet were the Arctic Star? I know they are from a graft, what’s the root stock of the main tree? Lovell?
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It was grafted on a branch of Easternglo.
Can’t recall what rootstock Easternglo is on.
I will need to measure the brix of Arctic Star later. I am on the road now. Arctic Star usually is very sweet with no hint of acid. Some people love it for that. Others don’t like it because of that.
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I love it, together with the Zephyr, they are my top rated white nectarines…
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Well, today I tasted an apple I have waited 6 years for! By far the longest an apple tree in my orchard ever took to produce. It’s probably the most common and hyped up apple out there- Honeycrisp. I’d had store bought ones but this guy was off my tree. Perfectly ripe and HUGE. Most importantly, though, I really want you to all know that this is a case where I THINK the apple lived up to the hype!!! This truly was one of the, if not the, best apples I’ve ever eaten in my life! I loved the sweetness, I loved the texture, I even loved the very large size. In short, for me honeycrisp lived up to its great reputation, and I’m not a big apple lover. Honeycrisp is just a wonderful apple and I can’t wait to get more next year!
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Not sure how I missed this, but I just wanted to tell you what beautiful fruit you have there and I think those perfect nects are something to be proud of! I find nectarines to be harder to grow for some reason. In my orchard the bugs definitely hit them harder than peaches. I’ve always suspect maybe my sprays - even though I use a sticker- might wash off the nectarines and their slick skin easier and faster than on peaches when it rains. Stands to reason the fine hairs on peaches hold on to the things I spray on them better than the slick skin nects, but that is just a theory with no real evidence to prove it other than my nects certainly get more pest problems than my peaches. That is a long way of saying I think you should be proud to have such beautiful nectarines.
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With about 4 Indar spray,(double from last year), I still got 60% rot on my nects, mostly on the stem ends.
Nects have almost no stem. Fruit hang so tightly against branches. Fungicide can’t get to that area.
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