you promised LATE PEACHES............ great video...... and for someone living in NE Ohio this is amazing STILL rock hard octoberfest peaches..... weather is starting to cool so not sure they will ripen
Looking at Octoberfest again this week, we did a video on it last week but it still wasn't really prime. So I will be looking at it again on Wednesday with the person responsible for its introduction. Sorry but i have been looking a many late season Peaches and Nectarines. Halloween for instance is really not looking good due to the extended hot and dry temperatures here this year. Lot of the experimental varieties at Zaiger and Burchell are not ripening well this years i assume do to the hot and dry conditions .... but stay tuned I keep an eye on the late stuff,,,,,,, On another note we did select 2 home garden interspecific plum selection for acceleration , they are REAL GOOD
I get jealous from all the fruit you have such late in the season. Also the many varieties and the mass production. I laugh when I see you guys just throw them on the ground. All my stone fruits were pretty much done by July. I've tasted three plum/pluots, that I can say have been my favorite so far. 1. Green Gage (not sure specific variety). 2. Flavor Grenade Pluot. 3. Weeping Santa Rosa plum. I'm looking to add some more trees to my collection. I was hoping you might be able to point out a few good varieties. Looking for another plum/pluot I like sweet, but also like complex good flavors. Was thinking of the Green Gage or Flavor King for plum/pluot. I'm also looking for a good/sweet apple variety and a good pear variety. I live in the So Cal area zone 9b. So low chill hours would be great, always love heavy producers. Any recommendations for a backyard garden plum/apple/pear? Side Note: I can see the quality of your videos have been increasing. Keep up the good work. I'm planning on watching everyone moving forward.
Thank you for noticing Bro, the good advice being shared with me from friends and colleagues helps. So first i would question the Green Gage, and would love to know the cultivar and how long have you had it and is it setting fruit? Typically not a variety that set well in So Cal. Next I have a question about your flavor Grenade. Are you done harvesting it by the end of July? Typically in the central valley we begin harvesting at the earliest mid August . Love Weeping Santa Rosa!! Here is a few recommendations. For Plum or Pluots I would look at Laroda plum, complex and very tasty, a Santa Rosa on Steroids. Definitely Flavor King, you want complex! this might be the finest fruit ever created (just and Opinion) and Splash Pluot, just all-round good piece of fruit. Last word is the Emerald Beaut Plum is setting in the southland, that's one late ripening variety that has no rival. As far as apples are concerned, you can grow any apple in So Cal (look at the TH-cam video on Dave Wilsons Fruittube Growing Apples at UC Irvine) I would say to follow your taste on this one and experiment. I am not a fan of most of the so called Low Chill varieties of apples. Sorry pears don't get any easier, Asian pears are a better choice than domestic, as most of the low chill domestic pears really are (again my opinion) terrible. Oh no long writers syndrome again!!
@@EdAbleSolutions-qw9zb The tree i'm referring to as the Green Gage is in a community garden in South Central, LA. on Vermont & 48th St. (In between 48th & 47th st. On the East side garden (it has two sides, one on each side of the street) near the two story apartment buildings side. If I had to give it a age (did not plant) I would give it around 8-9 years old if not longer. Pretty big tree, that they rarely prune. In the years I've been a member, I only know of 2 single pieces of fruit that it produced. They were hidden (hard to find), under a sun canopy (that part of the tree). I possibly thought it did not produce due to a mix of soil/water & nutrients. Did not know about chill hrs at that time. The fruit was green and just a little bit bigger then a large cherry (not very large, but very sweet. The reason I call it a Green Gage, just cause the fruit was green and fully ripened on the tree (but It's just a guess). I just recently planted my Flavor Grenade about 2-3 months ago. I was luckily enough to find fruit on quite a few varieties of plums/pluots at Green Thumb. Out of all of the varieties (that had fruit) the Flavor Grenade tasted the best to me. Which is why I had to purchase it. My Weeping Santa Rosa, I had for a bit longer. It's currently in a 25 gallon pot, purchased from home depot. I'm definitely purchasing a Flavor King now, and I've been wanting a Splash Pluot (heard alot of good things about it). But now i'm definitely getting one. I watched your video about Laroda plum, but I have not seen it at any nurseries that ive been to but it sounds like a great fruit. The Emerald Beat plum sounds like a better option for my area then the green gage, but I still worry that I'm not getting 600-700 hours of chill in my area. Once again, I really appreciate the response & the advise. I definitely will put it to use.
you promised LATE PEACHES............
great video...... and for someone living in NE Ohio this is amazing
STILL rock hard octoberfest peaches..... weather is starting to cool so not sure they will ripen
Looking at Octoberfest again this week, we did a video on it last week but it still wasn't really prime. So I will be looking at it again on Wednesday with the person responsible for its introduction. Sorry but i have been looking a many late season Peaches and Nectarines. Halloween for instance is really not looking good due to the extended hot and dry temperatures here this year. Lot of the experimental varieties at Zaiger and Burchell are not ripening well this years i assume do to the hot and dry conditions .... but stay tuned I keep an eye on the late stuff,,,,,,, On another note we did select 2 home garden interspecific plum selection for acceleration , they are REAL GOOD
I get jealous from all the fruit you have such late in the season. Also the many varieties and the mass production. I laugh when I see you guys just throw them on the ground. All my stone fruits were pretty much done by July. I've tasted three plum/pluots, that I can say have been my favorite so far. 1. Green Gage (not sure specific variety). 2. Flavor Grenade Pluot. 3. Weeping Santa Rosa plum. I'm looking to add some more trees to my collection. I was hoping you might be able to point out a few good varieties. Looking for another plum/pluot I like sweet, but also like complex good flavors. Was thinking of the Green Gage or Flavor King for plum/pluot. I'm also looking for a good/sweet apple variety and a good pear variety. I live in the So Cal area zone 9b. So low chill hours would be great, always love heavy producers. Any recommendations for a backyard garden plum/apple/pear?
Side Note: I can see the quality of your videos have been increasing. Keep up the good work. I'm planning on watching everyone moving forward.
Thank you for noticing Bro, the good advice being shared with me from friends and colleagues helps. So first i would question the Green Gage, and would love to know the cultivar and how long have you had it and is it setting fruit? Typically not a variety that set well in So Cal. Next I have a question about your flavor Grenade. Are you done harvesting it by the end of July? Typically in the central valley we begin harvesting at the earliest mid August . Love Weeping Santa Rosa!!
Here is a few recommendations. For Plum or Pluots I would look at Laroda plum, complex and very tasty, a Santa Rosa on Steroids. Definitely Flavor King, you want complex! this might be the finest fruit ever created (just and Opinion) and Splash Pluot, just all-round good piece of fruit. Last word is the Emerald Beaut Plum is setting in the southland, that's one late ripening variety that has no rival.
As far as apples are concerned, you can grow any apple in So Cal (look at the TH-cam video on Dave Wilsons Fruittube Growing Apples at UC Irvine) I would say to follow your taste on this one and experiment. I am not a fan of most of the so called Low Chill varieties of apples.
Sorry pears don't get any easier, Asian pears are a better choice than domestic, as most of the low chill domestic pears really are (again my opinion) terrible. Oh no long writers syndrome again!!
@@EdAbleSolutions-qw9zb The tree i'm referring to as the Green Gage is in a community garden in South Central, LA. on Vermont & 48th St. (In between 48th & 47th st. On the East side garden (it has two sides, one on each side of the street) near the two story apartment buildings side. If I had to give it a age (did not plant) I would give it around 8-9 years old if not longer. Pretty big tree, that they rarely prune. In the years I've been a member, I only know of 2 single pieces of fruit that it produced. They were hidden (hard to find), under a sun canopy (that part of the tree). I possibly thought it did not produce due to a mix of soil/water & nutrients. Did not know about chill hrs at that time. The fruit was green and just a little bit bigger then a large cherry (not very large, but very sweet. The reason I call it a Green Gage, just cause the fruit was green and fully ripened on the tree (but It's just a guess).
I just recently planted my Flavor Grenade about 2-3 months ago. I was luckily enough to find fruit on quite a few varieties of plums/pluots at Green Thumb. Out of all of the varieties (that had fruit) the Flavor Grenade tasted the best to me. Which is why I had to purchase it. My Weeping Santa Rosa, I had for a bit longer. It's currently in a 25 gallon pot, purchased from home depot.
I'm definitely purchasing a Flavor King now, and I've been wanting a Splash Pluot (heard alot of good things about it). But now i'm definitely getting one. I watched your video about Laroda plum, but I have not seen it at any nurseries that ive been to but it sounds like a great fruit. The Emerald Beat plum sounds like a better option for my area then the green gage, but I still worry that I'm not getting 600-700 hours of chill in my area.
Once again, I really appreciate the response & the advise. I definitely will put it to use.