One huge apricot and a charentais melon!
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I bought a Santa Claus melon (Piel de Sapo) at the store yesterday…excellent…better then the Galia i also bought.
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Early Magic plums. Thanks @alan.
After eating watered-down Beauty plums for the past few days, today I picked Early Magic. What an upgrade for an early plum!!!
Beauty, very juicy, very soft texture, mildy sweet (like diluted sugar water). Brix 10-11.
Early Magic, firmer texture,q a lot sweeter. Brix 16-17. Good for an early Japanese plum.
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I had my first purple avocado today. It was a somewhat watery avocado with decent flavor, but not much sweetness. The lime green avocado was much better - very sweet.
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Finished up with another experimental trial. Preserved cherries. Very simple, fresh sour cherries are covered in vinegar and left in the fridge for a week. Then drained and covered in sugar for a second week. Then dumped in a pot and cooked. Then drained. The leftover syrup is very nice and I used it to make blackraspberry shrub but you can simply use it as sauce. The vinegar is toned down enough to be pleasant.
The cherries are sweet and tasty with a bit of zing. A bit raisiny. We’ll mostly use them with cheese trays.
Easy to do and something different. I might try it with some haskap next year or plums, if we ever get any.
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So I have two Flavor King pluot trees, one gets full sun and one gets afternoon shade after 2 pm. The one that gets afternoon shade by 2 pm ripens much larger and up to a month earlier than my other tree in full sun. I am almost positive that the tree that gets afternoon shade is an earlier/larger sport of Flavor King as it’s much larger and ripens fruit so much earlier. It’s fruit is also of a higher quality flavor than my other tree, and the birds, bugs, and bee’s go crazy over it so we don’t get as much fruit as we would like. We have been eating these since July 15th, a full month before Flavor King is supposed to ripen here. This is one fruit that we all look forward to, never ending up dried or made into fruit leather. The fruit average 6 ounces and I have had them to a half a pound! They are absolutely to die for, as good as pluots get. The tree is around 6 years old, and the later strain tree is 10 years old. Here are some pics of the early strain and the later strain, the later obviously not even close to ripe even though it gets full sun all day. The fruit I tested is at 21 brix now, and supremely delicious. Now I wonder what we should name it?
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The second to last is a pic is of the later ripening original Flavor King which usually ripens in mid August.
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Moniqui, my first white apricots. Not knowing they were there so they were left hanging for a long time. Even they were overripe, they were sweet and delicious.
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If scions will be available Jon,that’s right near the top of my list.bb
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Red Baron peach and Albion and Seascape strawberries. I have been very impressed with these strawberries. They are day-neutral varieties, which means that here they produce almost every day of the year due to the mild climate. I have them planted as ground cover under my high-density fruit tree plantings, in two 4’ x 4’ raised beds. I have been getting about a pint of berries every other day. From the variety descriptions I thought they would be on the small side, but some of them have been almost 2" in diameter and really delicious.
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Your early Flavor King matches the ripening time of mine. Last year was my first FK crop and it was picked soft ripe between Aug 27-Sep 5, given that your fruits ripen 4-5 weeks ahead of mine, the ripening time is a good match. My tree is on Citation and I got it four years ago from Grow Organic. I wonder if your late variety is the wrong one, perhaps a mislabel.
Other than size, when ripe, do they look identical from outside and inside? How about tree habit; do you see a difference? Flavor King is known to be a somewhat low vigor tree.
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That’s true for early season fruits, the difference in the ripening time shrinks as the season progresses.
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@Bradybb, PM me in January, I will send you some no problem. @Ahmad, here in central Ca the ripening time of Flavor King is mid August as the DWN states online and in their Variety and Rootstock description book. They are very similar, just different ripening times, kind of like the Blenheim sports.
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@Stan @fruitgrower Let us compare another few late fruits; my Arctic Jay ripens July 15, Dapple Dandy ripens Sep 11 and Flavor Grenade ripens Sep 20 (last years data; soft ripe). When do yours ripen?
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Then perhaps I have the early sport…
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@Ahmad, you could possibly have it. I have sent scion out to several members a few years ago and I think you were one of them, not sure though. It is nice to have two harvests of these wonderful fruit. I also distributed scion 3 years ago at the CRFG scion exchange in Sacramento, and at Prusch park.
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Ate one of the two Candy Heart pluerries on the tree. Early and not yet colored up but very delicious. Nice texture, crunchy and firm but still juicy. Surprised at the small size of the pit and large amount of meat. Was going to let both fully ripen but felt too worried that a critter would get them as the birds pecked up half of the delicious Hosui pears that I was looking forward to eating
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Delicious yellow flesh fresh peaches. Don’t know the name. Yesterday I ate two white flesh peaches, sweet and creamy, but I really like the tang in a yellow peach better.
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Picked the fourth and last Arctic Glo from my second leaf tree, brix was 18, flavor and eating quality were overall very good. Definitely a keeper for me, specially if I can raise the brix in drier years and as the tree gets more mature. I actually found out that I like balanced acidic fruit as much as I like low acid ones… Thanks to @Drew51 and @fruitgrower for recommending this variety.
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