Growing Apricots, Cherries, Plums & their Hybrids

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@chinatownboy7482 8 ай бұрын

In Northern California, my peach flowered and fruited. Then the cold weather came back, knocking everything off the tree. The tree was bare all year last year. Until the end of the year, when there was a late heat wave. This year. It looks like only 10% of the tree is flowering and growing leaves. But the plum tree is doing great.

@corymcleod2728 5 ай бұрын

I remember when I was 12 living in Edenvale, San Jose, CA. There was a couple of fruit orchards near our house that I would sneak in and steal plums. Had to be careful, back in 1967 you’d get shot with rock salt if you got caught. Every time I snuck in I’d miss the next day of school. I didn’t know they were the plums used to make prunes but they were sure good. I looked on google earth and there’s not an orchard left there anymore. Now I’m planting our own orchard here in Huachuca City, Arizona and won’t need to worry about the rock salt.

@jedheart8059 8 ай бұрын

Sacramento County here. Santa Rosa plums are steady. The apricots are are formed. The peach trees have a peach tree curl from all the rains except one reliable Arctic Queen Peach, I think. It's one of the Queens. Apriums are also well formed.

@LuminousTurtle2029 8 ай бұрын

My plum flowered right before the winds. Luckily many remained on the tree and got fertilized. Then we got more strong winds. We only lost 4 fruit so far, so that's a win in my book.

@marcusbreuer874 8 ай бұрын

my apricot and almond are flowering and fruiting well this year, but my plums and cherry tree just started to flower last week!

@johns6704 8 ай бұрын

In Gainesville Florida area, I have a flavor King pluot and a flavor grenade pluto that both bloomed pretty well. The flavor king was covered in blooms but none of them got pollinated. The flavor grenade had a few pluots get pollinated but they aborted eventually. But they are both three year old trees so I'm hopeful. I've had a Flavor Delight Aprium now that is about four years old. It had some blooms also way up high but if I touched them just slightly they'd fall off. Not sure why. The tree has grown really well and of all my trees seems to be the least bothered by bugs and fungus. And we have lots of fungi here in Florida. I do spray it with my other trees. But while all my other trees always get some level of fungus it seems pretty resilient. Just not sure it will ever get enough chill to bloom. I did some good pruning this spring and will do some more pruning once it goes dormant or in the late fall to see if I can encourage more blooms. I'm also going to fertilize it more this year and see what happens. I have a Santa Rosa plum also but hard to even get the thing to grow. Perhaps a bad spot in the yard. I have a fig that won't grow also. I've also planted a lapins (which might have had its first cherry until it aborted), a royal crimson, and a minnie royal (that died), and another cherry (the one that goes with minnie). The trees seems to grow OK. I'm going to try to fertilize them more this year. Last year was dry and I didn't baby them enough. Got almost zero growth last year. I definitely need to spray them for fungi. I rotate with daconile, captain, and f-stop. The biggest issue seems to be cherry leaf spot and thrips. As long as I spray them early in season they do fine. But no real cherries yet. My oldest Crimson royal had a decent amount of blooms. This spring in Florida was the most glorious best Spring we've ever had since I've lived here (early 80s). It was nice and cool all spring. Everything has been blooming like crazy. We haven't even had bad rains yet to mess up the blooms. My apple trees are doing awesome. So I'm giving these trees another two or three years and I'll report back if anything turns out to be good. I've got quite a bit of stone fruit trees. So far only by Anna Apple and my Elsa Sweet apple have done well. I know we can grow peaches and nectorines here pretty well also. Hoping to have some luck with some of the others.