I finish up in Nov with persimmons. Right now, Raja Asian pears are finishing up and next its Korean Giant. I also have a few Fuji Apples. I would have had some late harvest apples in Oct, but they did not produce this year.
What about you?
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First week of Nov, Fuji and Evercrisp apples. I pick them just before the first hard freeze.
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We have trees producing fruit in every month of the year.
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December - with Feijoa and kiwis
Last year was unusual - no December frost so Feijoa until January.
Persimmons are done by late November here.
Other than SoCal and possibly south Florida we all have an end to the season.
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Does it end? Moving more to planning stages. Not fruit; but we are putting away and drying many seeds for flowers and fruit now. Like I have a handful of Centurion crab seeds to dissect out. A huge piece of card board with Beauty berries limbs to harvest seeds. This is prime season to harvest Helianthus species which has a lot of uses and interests.
Still have to plot out my rootstock area with keepers. Like planning to toss the few remaining Bud rootstocks out.
Oh. And the Mrs, felt I needed a Fuji apple tree{she always does that when she buys a tree or plant she wants}
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Fruiting normally ends with our first hard frost for figs and raspberries.
In 2020… that happened on Dec 3.
Most years it happens somewhere more mid November.
Now that I have several persimmons… suppose it is possible that some may be able to hang on the tree past first hard frost.
TNHunter
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When it starts to freeze it is mostly over. We have a long way to go! I’m guessing October or November but hey its Kansas you never know.
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The last of my apples is usually the first week of November. Usually arkansas black, then wickson.
Any meaningful production stops late August early September. and I shift into another mode, planting and prepping for next year mostly . I’m having to replant several trees. due to a tornado I usually wait until November however, I found some large ones so I’m giving it a try still awfully hot 85 to 90 awfully dry. The nights are a little cooler mid 60 ‘s and I have plenty of irrigation so far they’re doing really well.
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Here in coastal RI, there’re usually some frosts in late October and some hard freezes by early to mid- November. So early November is the time to pick the last pears, apples, and persimmons.
Weather limits what I can grow. I can pretty much sneak all pears under the wire. I can also grow all but the latest apples. But I can ripen only early persimmons on the tree; midseason persimmons can generally be grown but must be finished indoors. Late-ripening persimmons would never get past green.
Which pears do you pick in October?
I have a young Improved Keiffer. I have limited experience with it but it seems to be pickable from mid October into November.
I also have a clone of a mature abandoned tree growing across the street. It also produces pickable fruit within a similar window.
When I say “pickable” I assume that the fruit is not left to ripen on the tree but is picked late enough to be ripened indoors. In any case all the fruit on the abandoned tree drops by mid November.
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Unfortunately my season of harvesting what I’ve planted is basically over now. I have some Joan J raspberries that are making one more push. This is my first year growing them so I have no clue if they will ripen in time. I have some figs on young trees, but I don’t expect most of them to get enough heat to ripen. I am still getting wild persimmons. My domestic ones are too young. I do have prickly pear cactus yet to ripen. I don’t remember when they actually ripen, but I know last year I picked some in February. I think they had already been ripe a long time though. They aren’t an amazing fruit…but there ain’t much competition here between December and march so it’s easy to be the best.
I hope in future years the apples, pears, and medlar I’ve planted this year will provide me with a little season extension.
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Fuji apples mid October. There are still some pickable Galas on that tree, but I"ll probably leave them for the squirrels.
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I’ve got all my Liberty, State Fair, Ginger Gold, Kidd’s Orange Red, Snow, and a fairly large, red apple I can’t identify. Also some Karmijn de Sonnaville.
Still to come: More Karmijn, Jonagold, Prairie Spy, a few each Rubintette, Wealthy, Gold Rush, Calville Blanc, and maybe one or two others I’ve lost track of.
A mild frost expected this week, but I’ll let everything hang until it either is ready to come off or the weather gets more seriously nasty.
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As many others have said, late apples will be the last thing I get. I’m not sure if Fuji or Braeburn will win the prize for latest. A couple Cox’s Orange Pippins also look like they have a good while to go yet.
