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  • From: mIEKAL aND <qazingulaza@gmail.com>
  • To: North American Fruit Explorers <nafex@lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [NAFEX] Scout Apricot
  • Date: Sun, 19 Apr 2009 16:16:37 -0500

I just checked the Scout apricot. The tree is almost ready to flower.  Way too early for here altho we're having a warm spring this year, we still have 3-4 weeks before last frost on a cold year.  

Jerry that's great advice, I have Sungold & Manchurian apricots that flower but never put on fruit for many years, so what you say makes a lot of sense.

~mIEKAL


On Apr 19, 2009, at 3:59 PM, Jwlehman@aol.com wrote:

In a message dated 4/19/2009 2:59:32 PM Eastern Daylight Time, quirky@videotron.ca writes:


I'm in Ag Can Z4b (-30degC), and, although you can find Scout and other
varieties in some nurseries here I was advised to stay away from apricots. I
was told the trees would grow and even blossom but they probably wouldn't
set fruit (just as you described Jim).


Have any of you checked the pistils at flowering time to see if they were winter killed which would make them fruitless? Even with dead pistils the flowers will open. A late freeze a few weeks before opening can also damage them. 

Jerry






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