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["Mark Lee" <markl@nytec.com>]

Diane,
I try to grow pluots in Seattle, which is similar to Victoria.  I would
not recommend pluots if you want to grow it for fruit.  I grows well
here, really vigorous.  But the timing of the flowering is a weak point.
It blooms in February or early March.  Lack of pollinators, wet weather
and potential for frost damage make fruit production a gamble.  This
year everything in my garden is producing, and the pluot tree will have
maybe 10 fruits.  This is from a tree that is 9 feet tall.  It has had
no fruit for the last 5 years, so that averages out to 2 fruit per year!
The fruit tastes excellent.  Good thing the tree has a good shape and is
healthy or I would have yanked it out years ago.
-Mark Lee, Seattle z8

-----Original Message-----
From: nafex-bounces@lists.ibiblio.org
[mailto:nafex-bounces@lists.ibiblio.org] On Behalf Of Diane Whitehead
Sent: Saturday, July 10, 2004 1:28 PM
To: North American Fruit Explorers
Subject: [NAFEX] plumcot, aprium etc for coast?

An enthusiastic local gardener has been reading some U.S. garden 
magazines, and asked me for information about importing a plumcot 
tree.  Quite aside from the difficulties and expenses of doing this, 
I suspect that fruit developed in the Central Valley of California 
would not produce particularly well in a coastal climate.

Plums do well here. I spend a ridiculous amount of time thinning most 
of the fruit so that branches won't break off.

Apricots do not.  They seem to be rather tricky to grow well and are 
grown in the interior valley of my province of British Columbia, 
between the Coast Range and The Rockies.

So what about their hybrids and backcrosses?  Plumcot, Pluot and 
Aprium.  Are they worth growing in a maritime climate?




-- 
Diane Whitehead  Victoria, British Columbia, Canada
maritime zone 8
cool mediterranean climate (dry summer, rainy winter - 68 cm annually)
sandy soil
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