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Re: [nafex] Burnt Ridge Apricots



Thanks, everyone, for the Puget Gold stories.  I'm eagerly awaiting the
arrival of this one.

Ginda

Sam Franc wrote:
> 
> I ahve not bought from that nursey but----
> I have planted 2 Puget Gold here on the notoriously slow growing Oregon
> coast and the are huge trees now.
> When I planted them they needed a hole about 2 feet in size.
> They were about 4 feet tall.
> Now even after heavy pruning they are beyond my reach.
> So there you have another Puget Gold story.
> Sam
> 
> Don Yellman wrote:
> 
> > Ginda:
> >
> > I planted an apricot from Burnt Ridge two springs back, a Puget Gold on
> > St. Julian "A" rootstock.  If the tree you receive is anything like
> > mine, you will be able to dig the hole with a hand trowel, and if you
> > can't lay hands on one of those, with a large tablespoon.  That is to
> > say, the tree was small.  I came across this variety thanks to loyal
> > nafexer Richard Ossolinski (aka Osso), who e-mailed me some photos of
> > his beautiful P.G. fruit grown in Maine.
> >
> > But it is not to say I am unhappy with my little P.G.; on the contrary I
> > am most pleased with the slower-growing habit of the P.G. in comparison
> > with the other two apricots I have, to wit, two Tomcots on no-name
> > rootstock that want to grow into very large trees and require constant
> > pruning.  One other feature of the P.G. that truly delights me is that
> > it began to bloom three weeks later than the Tomcots (March 31 vs. March
> > 9), and, after what I expect to be our last cold night of the spring
> > (21.9 F last night from a recording digital thermometer hung in a peach
> > tree) the P.G. still has one or two unopened blooms.  In contrast, the
> > Tomcot blooms and any hope for fruit are long gone, taken by several
> > hard freezes during March.
> >
> > I don't know whether to attribute this late-blooming phenomenon to the
> > cultivar, the rootstock, or orchard placement, although the tree is on
> > the warmer, upper part of my slope, which should have made it bloom
> > earlier than Tomcot.  Whatever the cause, I hope this tendency
> > continues, as this bloom time difference can be critical to growing
> > apricots in my location.  Right now, the little Puget Gold tree is about
> > head-high to a tall Swede, and a little spindly, but still strong and
> > healthy.  It does not seem to want to shoot those fast-growing verticals
> > up in the way of the Tomcots.
> >
> > When I walked down to bring in the thermometer, the peach blossoms did
> > not have that frozen look (and they were in full bloom) for whatever
> > reasons --- maybe a little more breeze last night than was predicted, or
> > a short enough duration of the low temps.  I guess I won't be able to
> > tell for sure for a few days.
> >
> > Rgds, Don Yellman, Great Falls, VA
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
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