Crack-resistant varieties?
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Wanted: Disease resistant apricot variety
Comments (23)I thought the tree is already to be replaced as the discussion ensued, if so, what cultivars would be better, given the history. Tomcot would be the best suited, based on Don Yellman's excellent advice. Harcot would also be nice, but recalling that the place is around the Bay Area, it would not get enough chilling hours in most years. We are 12 miles west of the Sacramento Capitol as the crow flies. In our area a couple of years ago, during prolonged low intensity rains around bloom time, there were severe brown rot, blossom blight on apricots. Peaches also got the blight and rot aside from peach leaf curl. Fruit sets were generally poor. During those times, Tomcot, Goldkist, Royal Rosa, Harcot apricots fruited adequately without needing to thin out (that means just adequate fruits). Last year, we had relatively very dry spell during the bloom, and almost all stone fruits whose diseases did not get deeper into the tree, they have limb breaking yields. Those are a few observations from around the neighborhood who seldom spray their trees. Oftentimes, it is useless to spray your trees in an urban setting, because of the neighbors. And even if you did get their permissions, not everyone will spray at the same time. So you will always have a reservoir of diseases and their vectors. Often hobbyists have a plethora of cultivars in close proximity of each other and not big blocks of monocultured trees. Planting distances of trees are designed for machineries to pass through in commercial orchards and these spacings are never applicable for a city backyard in prime costing land. Commercial growers and home hobbyists have different objectives in raising fruit trees or plants in general and have dramatically different environments in which they operate. I take the observations and experimentations of hobbyists and home growers with proper context and value them much better than the standard methods meant for commercial growers. One has to consider these primary differences when discussing various issues....See Morebest cherry tree varieties
Comments (8)I think some of the best new cultivars are White Gold and Black Gold. They pretty much are about the best for the east. On Gisela 5. The biggest problem is branching, they tend not to branch well on Gisela when young. Not all but some. Proper heading of laterals and even notching can help get them to branch correctly. You'll get ton's of cherries if pruned correctly. Also even though dwarf, they get quite big 12 ft tall at least 8 ft wide. For me that is huge! Depending how much rain you get you will have to spray a lot. Mine are in a moist area, and I'm always fighting problems with them. But I have managed to get some decent crops. I'm in MI 6a. These trees are good for my area. Raintree or Grandpa's carries them, unless you want a larger tree get Gisela rootstock. It does well in most soils. Rich soils are best. It's very cold hardy which matters more for me than you. I would also take the other advice and see what others are growing in your area. Your best bet. Both trees I mentioned are self fertile, so you can only have one, but having different cultivars will increase crop. Both trees are pretty good pollinators too for trees that need another cherry to bear fruit. Again local knowledge trumps my advice, you may ask what they think of these in your area. I also like these trees because the fruit is excellent Whitegold has heavy crops, cold tolerance, disease and crack resistance, and midseason maturity. Ripens in mid June. Self-pollinating. Blackgold is about the same. Both are Cornell releases (anything from them is pretty awesome if you ask me)....See MoreCracking and Pouching Resistant Tomatoes?
Comments (3)"I'm just wondering if there is such a thing as tomato varieties that resist cracking." ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Burgess Crack Proof: Breeder and vendor: Burgess Seed & Plant Co., Galesburg, Michigan. Parentage: unknown; sample received from an Ohio fancier about 1940; unlike any other cultivar. Characteristics: practical immunity of fruit to radial cracks. Resistance: growth cracks. (NCSU Cultivar Lists) It's hard to find fresh seeds for Burgess Crackproof. You can obtain it from Seed Saver's Exchange via their Yearbook if you're a member. It's SSE Tomato #507. Glamour: Breeder: Birds-Eye Hort. Res. Lab., Albion, New York. Vendor: Joseph Harris Co., Rochester, New York. Parentage: Burgess Crackproof x Sioux. Characteristics: smooth, attractive fruit; heavy first cluster set. Resistance: cracking. Adaptation: northeastern and midwestern United States. Harris Catalog. 1957. (NCSU Cultivar Lists) Glamour is available easily from Stokes Seeds and Victory Seeds. It's open pollinated, so you can save and replant the seeds. Traveler 76 is an open pollinated, heat-setting variety bred for Arkansas and southern climates and is crack resistant. You can get seeds from Victory also. There are many modern hybrid tomatoes that are bred specifically to resist cracking and splitting. Usually, those crack-resistant characteristics are included in the seed catalog description of the varieties. But with the right soil and weather conditions, or poor culture habits, you could probably get any tomato to crack....See Moretomatoes cracking
Comments (4)Some varieties are worse than others but I even have episodes of cracking in my high tunnels where plants are esentially covered and the critical factors are more controlable. I find that running circulation fans for an hour each morning to dry plants (and fruits) goes a long way to minimize cracking. However if the weather turns from dry to foggy dampness every morning your only recourse is those crack resistant varieties. I've never seen a Rebelski tomato crack....See Morecarolyn137
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