Because I love to share: my 4 mature apples took last year off. This year they're covered with fruitlets and I am going to be ruthless in thinning. Golden Delicious, Granny Smith, Spitzenberg, and Liberty - and all but the Liberty are still blooming. Transcendent crab also covered with fruitlets. Mid-mature apples: good fruit set on the Whitney, looks like nothing on the Ashmead's Kernel. Redstreak and White Winter Pearmain still blooming. Baby apples better put on some serious growth this year or I'm pulling and replacing them: pink pearl and roxbury russet.
Pears bloomed super-early - doesn't look like a lot of fruit set. Bartlett and Ubileen. Good fruit set on my Hollywood and Shiro plum. A few on the Santa Rosa (first year). Yet another barren year on the Elephant Heart. That tree is coming out this year; it's been 8 years, I've got a grand total of 3 fruits, and it always has a huge plum aphid problem. I'm also giving up on the peach at last... which means room for new trees! Howard's Miracle planted last fall is shooting up. Imperial Epineuse also planted last fall *might* still make it. If not, I'll get another of those and an Early Laxton for my european plums. And a blue damson in place of one of the removed trees.
Sweet cherries have a decent amount of fruit (Rainier and Van). Montmorency cherry is super-productive as always. Quince is just finishing flowering.
Started a separate "I ain't gonna prune these!" orchard down by the goat pen last fall. 2 mulberries (purple and pink), 2 pawpaws, 2 figs, and a persimmon. I think I lost the Desert King fig. The rest are slowly leafing out.
Because I love to share: my 4 mature apples took last year off. This year they're covered with fruitlets and I am going to be ruthless in thinning. Golden Delicious, Granny Smith, Spitzenberg, and Liberty - and all but the Liberty are still blooming. Transcendent crab also covered with fruitlets. Mid-mature apples: good fruit set on the Whitney, looks like nothing on the Ashmead's Kernel. Redstreak and White Winter Pearmain still blooming. Baby apples better put on some serious growth this year or I'm pulling and replacing them: pink pearl and roxbury russet.
Pears bloomed super-early - doesn't look like a lot of fruit set. Bartlett and Ubileen. Good fruit set on my Hollywood and Shiro plum. A few on the Santa Rosa (first year). Yet another barren year on the Elephant Heart. That tree is coming out this year; it's been 8 years, I've got a grand total of 3 fruits, and it always has a huge plum aphid problem. I'm also giving up on the peach at last... which means room for new trees! Howard's Miracle planted last fall is shooting up. Imperial Epineuse also planted last fall *might* still make it. If not, I'll get another of those and an Early Laxton for my european plums. And a blue damson in place of one of the removed trees.
Sweet cherries have a decent amount of fruit (Rainier and Van). Montmorency cherry is super-productive as always. Quince is just finishing flowering.
Started a separate "I ain't gonna prune these!" orchard down by the goat pen last fall. 2 mulberries (purple and pink), 2 pawpaws, 2 figs, and a persimmon. I think I lost the Desert King fig. The rest are slowly leafing out.