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  • From: Steve <sdw12986@aol.com>
  • To: nafex@lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [nafex] Best apricots for the northeast
  • Date: Tue, 12 Jun 2012 01:07:57 -0400

Yeah, I've heard that story, about it being a plum, before. I don't buy it. The original tree is across town from me, here in Tupper Lake. Actually, I'm not sure if it's still there, now. The yard where it grew is about a 10 minute walk from here.
I'm not sure if it was just before or just after Bill MacKentley discovered the tree (for sure it was before it appeared in his catalog), a friend of mine, who knew the tree owner, gave to me a basket of the fruit. I remember them being thin skinned and kind of oblong. They looked a lot like a plum. I saved the seeds from that small basket of fruit and grew them. I planted six or seven seedlings on my property, gave two to my next door neighbor, and I think 3 to someone a few miles away.
I still have 4 of the best seedlings and I have tasted the fruit next door. All, every tree, produces small round Manchurian apricots. They bloom way before any of my 8 or 9 plum trees. The fruit size and taste varies a bit but all are little round apricots. (My next door neighbor turned out to get the best one... I grafted it in my yard later.)

Steve in the Adirondacks



On 5/30/2012 5:55 PM, Steve Herje wrote:
Adirondack gold is a plum, not an apricot, according to Bob Purvis. I got
one from St Lawrence 10+ years ago and took out down after it fruited. No
flavor here in southwest wisconsin. Your mileage may vary.

Steve Herje
Lone Rock, WI USDA zone 3-4
On May 30, 2012 12:55 PM, "John Henderson"<jhenderson@ithaca.edu> wrote:

Good to know about Puget Gold, since I just planted one this spring.
We had no luck with Moongold and Sungold. Never got any fruit and
after five years, both varieties died. Small sample size of one
Moongold and two Sungolds, it should be noted. We have an 3 year old
Adirondack Gold from St. Lawrence. No fruit yet (but this year was
uncommonly unfair to early blossoming varieties), but the tree itself
is healthy.

John Henderson
Sage Hen Farm
Lodi, NY

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