Today from the yard left to right:
Mid Pride Peach (last of them 
)
Flavor Queen Pluot
Artic Jay Nectarine (just starting)
Double Delight Nectarine
Blueberry (various) in the middle
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I made a stop at Costco (Anchorage AK) yesterday. Picked up Fuyu persimmon, Tomcot apricot and Honey Blaze nectarines.
I remember persimmon being stringent as a kid (about 50 years ago) and never ate them again. However, with the posts about Fuyu being non astringent, I thought it was time to try them again. The posts are right - these are really good.
This is the first time I knew I was eating a Tomcot. Not quite ripe yet, but I see why they are highly rated.
Nectarines need a few more days.
I really like getting the Costco boxes of fruit that have the variety on them.
Nothing out of my garden yet. Strawberries are about a week out.
Jim
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Found 1 flavor supreme almost all the way ripe, darn was it good. I will be making friends and family happy with them this year, way too many on the tree for just us to eat. It would be nice to get that kind of set on it every year. But I have to say I am really looking forward to more honey kist ripening. Now that fruit is amazing
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That is a beautiful sight! thank you so much for posting!!!
Blackberries and blueberries hitting their stride here - have picked 5+ gallons of Kiowa blackberries in the past couple of days, a gallon or so of blueberries -and probably that many more to be picked this evening.
Lodi apples are probably at their peak. 15 minutes from now, theyâll be mealy tasteless things. lol.
Chickasaw plums ripening rapidly.
Need to check the Lawsonâs Early June Sugar pear⌠itâs probably getting close to peak - but, like Lodi, it has a really short window of opportunity before it goes mealy.
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I like to eat a Lodi once a year, on the Fourth of July, which is when they peak here. I imagine myself to be a self-sufficient American enjoying a simple but substantial treat grown locally.
We had the last leahcot, some arctic star and a few not quite ripe flavor supreme.
Jason:
You seem to be the most successful humid climate grower of the difficult stone fruits. Nice workâŚ!!
Thank you. I do have issues with my dapple dandy, but other than that everything is pretty clean. I stick to a strict spray schedule, and my orchard is only 4 years old, so it could become more difficult. I am very happy I read your reviews on the honey series nectarines, blaze isnât ripe but have had 3 kist ripen and they truly are amazing. They rival flavor king in my opinion, and might even be better.
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I was thinking the smae thing as fruitnut man. Your killing it up there! Someday if you ever have a chance it would be nice to see what your spray schedule looks like. Iâm sure you are right your strict attention to it is paying off.
American Style Strawberry Ice cream
Black Raspberry/Kiwi/Lime Sorbet
I found a fully ripe flavor supreme before I left for work. Weâll you all know what they taste like and the rest of the tree isnât far off. I would have to say even if it doesnât set well for some people it is worth growing. It is probably the easiest pluot to grow, out of the 200 plus on my tree maybe a dozen or so cracked and we had an extremely wet spring
We just planted our fruit trees this year, so nothing from those obviously. But we do have wild blackberries and raspberries growing aboot the farm. Tried a red (unripe) blackberry, obviously too early, too tart. Raspberries are turning red now, but theyâre still a bit too unripe. Maybe a couple of weeks and theyâll be good to go.
Bought some peaches at the local produce market recently and we tried to make some peach ice cream. Took a bit of work but came out pretty good. Canât wait to make it with our own fruit.
I wonder if one could make ice cream with apples, or is that something best not attempted?
I use this guide and they also have one for berries and grapes. Got these at local chemical dealer. I am also fortunate to have a friend who is a commercial grower, and I have got and still get advice from him. I think the main thing is to keep protection on the fruit at all times. The spray guide goes into detail on this. For summer cover sprays 2 week maximum between sprays. If it rains I spray emediatly after rain. Also very important to spray at certain stages before bloom and at full bloom. And of course dormant season fall and spring
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Thank you. What product do you use for fungal control during the season? Also do you mix chemicals and spray together or do you apply everything seperate? Thank you.
Dave, I love what you just described your girls doing with those berries. Not only is it really cute, but as someone who loves sweetened milk of any kind and raspberries, it sounds delicious! Iâll be trying that simple little idea!
The fungicides I use are, dormant season kocide3000 and bravo. Pre bloom just as you start to see color indar and mustang max. Full bloom this year I used bravo again but I would be fine using pristine for this as well. At petal fall I think I used bravo again and that would be the final use of bravo till fall dormant spray, and at this point I start using imadin for pests. Then I start using captan and topsin m mixed together and imadin for summer cover sprays. When the Japanese beatles show up I use seven XLR plus. Also a couple times over the summer we get stink bugs and when I see them I will use mustang max instead of imadin, as imadin isnât effective on the stink bugs here. In August I will rotate between indar and pristine for the late fruit because we start getting heavy dew that time of the year. Oh and also I use flame out or mycroshield for bacterial spot on my peaches and nectarines. Most of my fruit is clean, I do have shot hole on my dapple dandy tree, fairly bad it is even effecting the fruit. But even with a extremely wet spring I would say 75 percent of apricots and apriums were clean. I would estimate 90 percent os plums and pluots clean with some varieties 100 percent clean. Peaches and nectarines also nearly all clean. My friend who grows commercialy really stressed to me the need to stay ahead of disease, canât really cure it once it shows up.
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I bet you could if you made an apple pie filling with all of the spices and cut the apples up small, cooked the filling then added it to the ice cream base.
Iâve been craving figs for weeks and canât get my fix. Figs few and far between around here. Even Wegmans has none.
I think my potted Battaglia Green might be forming its first little figlets, but still too early to rule out it being just vegetative growth.