Mystery fruit - looks like apricot?
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Apricot and plum fruit set report
Comments (8)Fruit set report Apple: They are still in flower, but are very healthy looking this year. Two of my tree (Fuji and Gravenstein) are only 2 so I will not let any fruit set on them. Fiesta is flowering well, interestingly in some places where there were spurs last year there are no flowers. I do not think that it over produced last year, as I dropped all but 1 fruit per cluster and removed over half of the buds. Apricot: Lots of frost damage to young buds, and it is only a 2 year old tree, therefore, no flowers yet Peaches: My Frost Peach is loaded with fruit, in fact I thinned the fruit to one every 6 inches last night. I have it trained up to about 10 feet along the south wall of my house. The trunk is only about 2.5 feet and the fruiting wood starts there. Almost every blossom set fruit. Some of the nodes along the fruiting branches had fruit sets of 6-8 fruitlets the size of small marbles. I need to thin out some of the growth as well. I just planted a Veteran in February and I am going to remove any fruit that sets on it. Unfortunately, I do not think the nursery was very good about controlling leaf curl as it has some despite my application of copper before bud brake late in the dormant season. Pears: The Pears had tons of blossoms. My Flemish beauty seems to have set quite a few as well. The Anjou had fewer blossoms but it seems to have set a good amount of fruit as well. We will see how many drop naturally, in the past I have found that most do, as my trees are only 5 this year. Conference is new as of February, it has 1 flower cluster, but I will be removing any fruit that sets. Plum: Stanley plum has lots of fruitlets on the lower branches, and fewer on the upper branches. There are probably 4 to 5 pepper corn sized fruitlets per spur, I will drop fruit next month after natural drop occurs. My Green Gage is new this February. Persimmon: Just leafing out now. It dropped all its fruit last year when they were the size of a quarter. Hopefully that doesn't happen this year, but it is young too. Figs: Lots of embryos swelling on outer tips of the branches on both the Italian honey and brown turkey. Grapes vertical growth is only 2 inches now Citrus: Lisbon Lemon set many fruit last month, I have thinned them out a bit, and it continues to flower. The lime (I think it is a Tahitian) is producing some new flowers now. I put my citrus out two weeks ago, and of course a light frost hit them the first night. I sustained some damage, but I think they are tough enough to handle it. cheers Sam...See Moreweird spots on apricot fruit
Comments (6)Candy, if you can snap another photo of your fruit, it would help. Too blurry to tell what's going on. See if you can get the focus point on your phone camera to focus on the fruit, and not the leaves in the background. And, you may be overwatering. We've had a LOT of rain recently. I have had my water off now for about 3 weeks, now. Too much water and too much fertilizer (every other week is WAY too much fertilizer for stone fruit) can cause fruit drop. What type of fertilizer are you using and what is the NPK ratio? If it is a high nitrogen fertilizer, this may be the cause of your fruit drop. Lastly, did you do your dormant sprayings for PLC? If not, this could be a PLC lesion. Or, possibly??? snail damage, but can't tell. Lastly, if you could please paste in the HTML code, and not the URL to the photo, your photo will then be embedded directly into the message. Much easier for all of us on the forum to both read and see your photo :-) Patty S....See MoreApricot (5 years old) has fruits now.
Comments (12)Chaman: It is not unusual for an apricot on a standard rootstock (which you appear to have) to take four years or more to begin blooming, and another year or two to set and hold fruit. And that is assuming you have no April freeze after the blossoms are open or the little fruits have set. The very early bloom of apricots followed by freeze damage is the most common problem of many apricot growers. It is normal for an apricot tree to have many blooms, but to set fruit on only 20-30 percent of the blooms. You should keep the center of your tree open by removing inward-growing or crossing branches. This is to allow good light penetration and air circulation, and will help the fruits ripen to full size and discourage diseases such as mildew on the fruits. I see a few interior branches on that tree that I would remove right now, regardless of whether they have fruit on them or not. It is a little difficult to distinguish the apricots from the leaves in your photo, but they should be thinned to at least 2-3 inches apart on a young tree to achieve full size. Finally, the young, tender-skinned apricots look just as good to insects like the plum curculio and the oriental fruit moth as they do to you. Any insect damage to the developing fruits will ruin them, and if you see any signs of that you should begin spraying with an effective insecticide like permethrin. Usually, once the fruit grow up a little and the skins harden, they are less attractive to insects. I have quite a few apricots on my trees this year too, and am watching them like a hawk. I have already sprayed with permethrin 3 times, and so far see no damage. I thinned off at least 2/3 of the fruits on my trees, but there are still plenty left. Don Yellman, Great Falls, VA...See MorePretty little mystery apricot rose, maybe Ambridge?
Comments (10)I wanted it to be Just Joey, but I agree, it's not. I've been waiting for it to get bigger and it hasn't grown at all. Given it's winter, but I asked for another rose replacement because it wasn't what I ordered and I got the same rose. They said it was Orange Velvet climbing rose. Both are still the same size as in the picture. Same type of bloom and smell lol. I'm just at a loss:)...See MoreUser
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