The nurseries here in Rhode Island, United States, aren’t advertising any right now. I missed buying some apple trees when they were on sale but will keep watching.
I love apricots, and tried growing them many yeas ago. But my apricot trees (all my orchard attempts) succumbed to disease(s) and I never tried planting any afterwards. I’m considering trying again now that I have more time and I also realize what a poor job I did with them.
I am on a ridiculous number of lists for fruit trees and seed catalogues. *ducks head*
They email me when things come available and I really love apricots. We had a tree when I was a kid (a stone tossed down grew and somehow my dad didn't run it over with the lawnmower), and once I realised what it was, I took *such* good care of it that it produced a bumper crop when I was 12. We moved out the next year to a place that got almost no sunlight...
Almost all the apricot grafts on my multi-grafted stone trees have died, and the one that hasn't produced a measly couple of apricots. The last bare-root I bought died after I put it in the ground. The mature apricot in the backyard produced a handful but we mostly lost them to fruit fly - the one apricot that survived was straight-up AMAZING and that tree is going to get the BEST of care this year. Unfortunately, it has gummosis (a problem with weeping sap) that weakens the tree, and I suspect this is why the place I bought it from was trying to get rid of it...
Frankly, I don't care if I find myself swimming in apricots, I will invite people around to pick them and take a tax if necessary. Dry them. Preserve them. Whatever. APRICOTS.
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Date: 2019-08-06 01:08 am (UTC)I love apricots, and tried growing them many yeas ago. But my apricot trees (all my orchard attempts) succumbed to disease(s) and I never tried planting any afterwards. I’m considering trying again now that I have more time and I also realize what a poor job I did with them.
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Date: 2019-08-06 01:21 am (UTC)They email me when things come available and I really love apricots. We had a tree when I was a kid (a stone tossed down grew and somehow my dad didn't run it over with the lawnmower), and once I realised what it was, I took *such* good care of it that it produced a bumper crop when I was 12. We moved out the next year to a place that got almost no sunlight...
Almost all the apricot grafts on my multi-grafted stone trees have died, and the one that hasn't produced a measly couple of apricots. The last bare-root I bought died after I put it in the ground. The mature apricot in the backyard produced a handful but we mostly lost them to fruit fly - the one apricot that survived was straight-up AMAZING and that tree is going to get the BEST of care this year. Unfortunately, it has gummosis (a problem with weeping sap) that weakens the tree, and I suspect this is why the place I bought it from was trying to get rid of it...
Frankly, I don't care if I find myself swimming in apricots, I will invite people around to pick them and take a tax if necessary. Dry them. Preserve them. Whatever. APRICOTS.