My apricots here in southeastern NY never bear well- but I just keep trying- I'm from S. CA and they're my favorite childhood fruit. I manage trees on more favorable sites that are quite productive and my Alfred seems to be semi-reliable based on last few years. I'm hoping that Tomcot will be similarly reliable but who knows? Sometimes I think I'm missing some important issue with this species because it isn't just frost freezing blossoms. My trees here never stay healthy- but then the ones I manage in less frost prone areas tend to be quite vigorous- so I'm left with the theory of chronic cambium damage as the cause.

I still think it was you but don't remember that much if kids were there. Wife black straight hair? Last Saturday at the Devonian gardens we talked about prunus Siberica and thought it to be a rather minor deviation of prunus Manchirica. Even though Siberica is likely to carry over the pink I still have one reserved thought that Robert Purvis knows of about Siberica. That it is an incredibly slow grower and is dwarf. Robert used to live in Alaska and in Idaho still does nothing but apricot in one of his collections in Washington. Gabe Botar was at the gardens who is another person knowing a great deal about apricot. He had scions of a prolific dwarf apricot with small good tasting fruits that he produced from crossed parents. Good stuff because slow growing and dwarf is always great for extreme cold or unprotected sites. For example flowering under the snow would delay bloom and escape the damaging spring frosts. If Clair Lammers (formerly from Edmonton) from Alaska ever grew Gabes apricot he would at least had fruits from this where all other his Manchurica experiments failed. My grandfather may have been around as a retired forester at the time those were planted and lived very close by. Only a remote possibility exists. I came across the trees a few years ago because I wanted to visit my childhood memories of the wading pool that still there in that place and not that anybody told me. Who ever planted them it seems very possible it was done from self pollinated Goldcot seeds similar the way you collected from the pink tree the seeds for another generation.

That was last year. when I picked flowers- it was first year the apricot was flowering... I never did it for my peach tree and it is doing fine... Though looks like this year no flowers on it as well(... First year out of 7 I have it it doesn't flower...

After further review of my peaches the buds appeared to look good but none shot out flowers . This is due to the same reason my apricots didn’t. Prolonged minus 30 kills off the flowers but the tree still survives. Maybe when everything is aligned properly noon and stars ect... I will get some big peaches :) until than I will keep updating this thread.