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On the other hand my Manchurian apricots were loaded with fruit last year, &
have never had any issues.  The fruit are pretty strong tasting, even for me
but I have yet to have enough to try making wine with them.  However they
were really slow to bear, they didn't bear any fruit for the first 10-12
years.

~mIEKAL

On Mon, May 23, 2011 at 10:23 AM, Caren Kirk <quirky@videotron.ca> wrote:

>  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
> >
>