This is why this fruiting plant loves the desert. Rain gives it “heart rot”. I will eventually cut these open and half of what I have will be black with mold from the rain.
It’s ruined the skin of the fruit. Although, I can usually cut a lot of the rot out and still use the arils within. It will still be a big loss. These will get really red, but they also may split from the rain before that happens.
We’ll see this winter what I get as far as a harvest. Hopefully enough to make cutting them and opening everything up worthwhile!
See you on the other side of these Texas storms.
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This is why apricots, prunes and cherries were the most common orchard crops in the Santa Clara Valley a long time ago.
I’m in AZ right now and we walked through my friend’s sort of abandoned orchard and there were three trees full of apples and a tree with apricots. She has to deal with javelinas. I just have to deal with squirrels. I was suddenly very grateful for my squirrel issues! I could never grow apricots. It’s not even a marginal plant in TX. But I can grow the heck out of peaches! Good to see you today!
That is odd, peaches but no apricots.
Flower times. And they are usually a higher chill hour plant than I can grow. They just slowly die and never produce fruit. I have heard the answer to most peach problems people ask about is that the tree is just looking for an excuse to die! I have had one I cut out because of the chill hour issue, one that was abused by the postal service, eventually got gummosis and died and one dwarf peach in that crazy high density bed I created. It’s happy… For now.
The peach tree that I planted in 1985 performed exemplarily until 2020. That is about twice as long as it should have been expected to perform. It was abused a few times, but somehow recovered. Dormant pruning was the only maintenance it got. The Santa Clara Valley is obviously a good place for them. Now, I hope its progeny perform as well a few miles outside of the the Santa Clara Valley.
Great luck to you!
gee whiz, I never knew such a thing could happen – I am sorry
The price of growing pomegranates! It’s OK. I don’t mind when I lose a crop because they are so difficult to process. Good to see you today!