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[Fwd: Re: [nafex] Burnt Ridge Apricots]
And another story.
(I got you a Puget Gold because people said they do well around here.)
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Subject: Re: [nafex] Burnt Ridge Apricots
Date: Sun, 07 Apr 2002 09:55:23 -0700
From: Sam Franc <franc@oregonfast.net>
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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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