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[Ginda Fisher <list@ginda.us>]

My only experience with apricots is Puget Gold grafted to St. Julian  
"A" rootstock.  I've planted two, one in a friend's yard in  
Cambridge, Mass., and one in my yard 20 miles further west.

It has good bud hardiness - I got decent fruit set after the swelling  
buds were hit with frost.  Something bad happened to it last year, as  
it dropped all its fruit, but the something might have been insect  
damage - the ones I cut open all had worms inside.  My friend's  
started to fruit in its second year, took the third year off, and has  
produced fruit every year since.  Lots of fruit.

Don Yellman wrote that it's a late bloomer, too.  To quote from an e- 
mail he sent this list in 2002:
> One other feature of the P.G. that truly delights me is that
> it began to bloom three weeks later than the Tomcots (March 31 vs.  
> March
> 9). . . I don't know whether to attribute this late-blooming  
> phenomenon to the
> >
> cultivar, the rootstock, or orchard placement, although the tree is on
> the warmer, upper part of my slope, which should have made it bloom
> earlier than Tomcot.  Whatever the cause, I hope this tendency
> continues, as this bloom time difference can be critical to growing
> apricots in my location.

I can't speak to disease problems, although I haven't noticed any  
spots or rot on this tree - it's one of the cleaner looking plants in  
my yard.  But it's also probably to only apricot within 20  
miles.  :-)  (And something made it drop its fruit last year.)

Ginda
eastern Mass., zone 6

On Mar 28, 2008, at 12:15 PM, Michele Stanton wrote:

> Hi all,
> A friend and I are thinking about putting in a few apricots.  We've  
> read Bob Purvis's suggestions of cultivars, If I could pick the  
> perfect tree, it would have some resistance to bacterial spot,  
> bacterial canker, and brown rot, and either bloom quite late or  
> have good bud hardiness.  What are you experiences?
>
> My other question is one of rootstocks and suppliers.
> Has anyone tried apricots on Krymsk 1 & 2?  I'd like a rootstock  
> that can handle less-than-well drained soils, that has some  
> dwarfing effects, and that doesn't cause earlier blooming.    Who  
> sells apricots on Krymsk?
>
> Michele in Ohio
> zone 6a
> land of erratic late spring frosts!
>
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