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[nafex] northern apricots
A couple weeks ago a friend in the town of Bemidji (25 mi from us) said he
was picking apricots. Apricots! I came running, ate my fill of delicious
cots on the small university campus on a main thoroughfair. This town is in
on the northern end of zone 3. The trees were not protected by buildings. By
the rotting fruit and seeds on the ground I'd estimate it put out at least
bushel of fruit. One delivery fellow stopped to say "You're late, Ive been
enjoying these great peaches for a couple weeks!" Apricots rotting along a
main sidewalk in northern Minnesota, some things will never make sense
I've corresponded with Bob Purvis about it, and his conclusion so far is
it's Moongold, with a slight possibility of Scout. This tree is 6 to 8" at
the base. Next to it is a much smaller apricot (2-3" base) which still has
not ripened.
I called the grounds keeper and he had no way of knowing the variety or
planting date. I asked a friend with a digital camera to go take pics, I
loaded them onto the nafex yahoo site (4 pics listed as northern
apricot).Unfortunately, too late for pics of the large trees fruit.
Years back I corresponded with Gary Stedmiller in Bizmark S.D.about
apricots, does anyone have a fresh e-mail address for him?
I've gathered a bag of seeds. Be happy to share them. The presumption is
that this is a selfruitful tree with no other pollinizers around, and will
come true to form. I've had such poor success grafting apricots onto my
manchurian stock, I have hopes of just starting from seed.
Has anyone raised cots from seed? Thoughts on stratifying?
Will be checkng on the small tree again shortly. Del
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