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  • From: Caren Kirk <quirky@videotron.ca>
  • To: North American Fruit Explorers <nafex@lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [NAFEX] Frost-resisting apricots grown in Siberia?
  • Date: Mon, 23 May 2011 11:23:29 -0400

Boy, now I am really confused! After about 4 years of deliberating, I had just made up my mind to take the plunge and buy an Apricot ( was going to go for a Moorpark). We've had a horrible spring though, yo-yoing back and forth from 24deg C to below freezing. Everything is late by at least 2 weeks. I was worried about how an apricot would have fared.

Then I came across this thread and my courage is slowly disappating. But I do LOVE apricots so I'm probably still stupid enough to try.... I don't know of anyone growing them around here so we'll have to see how it works out. Hopefully I won't be reporting this time next year about how bad it turned out!

Caren Kirk
St. Jerome QC, z4b


On 5/22/2011 10:39 PM, Sarah Kehler Ewing wrote:
The first few years I had apricots here we had harsh winters and even one
cold winter where we had zero snow until March 10th which they all came thru
just fine. Now the past few years everything has been dying back and just
plain dying. We have had two brutal falls in a row where we have moved from
summer to winter pretty much overnight: from growing and hot to freezing by
double digits and snow that stayed.

I have lost multiple Cowley, Scout, Westcot and Morden 604's. But this year, I
have a Cowley that had/has died back quite a bit break out in blossom on a few
pathetic branches. "Course its almost the only apricot I have left in my
orchard and the mice ate all the apricot seedlings I have in my seedling/graft
beds....


Sarah
zone 3
Edmonton, AB


--- On Sun, 5/22/11, Jim Fruth<jimfruth@charter.net> wrote:

From: Jim Fruth<jimfruth@charter.net>
Subject: [NAFEX] Frost-resisting apricots grown in Siberia?
To: "NAFEX"<nafex@lists.ibiblio.org>
Received: Sunday, May 22, 2011, 1:33 PM
Are any of these
available here in the States?

I have grown Debbies Gold, M-609(?), Brookcot
and Wescot
successfully........................until they bear
fruit. Then they die
suddenly. So I would really love to grow an apricot
that bears ripe fruit.

Jim Fruth
Brambleberry Fruit Farm
4002 Davis Street
Pequot Lakes, MN 56472
1-218-831-7018 (My Cell)

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