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["Ginda Fisher" <list@ginda.us>]

Even if you just get fruit for a couple of years, I think it's worth it. 
Tree-ripened apricots (properly thinned, including the one that just happen 
to have some space) are really delicious, and neither keep nor travel well. 
The tree needs little care (I never sprayed or anything. Had a few little 
black dots, that's it. A minor cosmetic issue if your plan is home 
consumption.) It doesn't take up all that much space, and at least in my 
experience, they are eager to produce fruit.

Go for it. And let us all know what cultivar you plant and how it does.

-- GindaOn May 23, 2011 11:23 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

>

>

> --- 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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