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ahhhh blue beries. The wild will ALWAYS be my favorite. Mymother and I would pick ata local barren, and at 1 qt per hour, the fruit was well worth the effort. We would pick every day. Others in the family were also made to picke. One year we hit 50 qts frozen. Enough for 50 Sunday after church brunch.



Drew51
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I grow Northerns, but have limited experience. So many are out there. I wanted an early I saw Spartan mentioned the most so added it. this will be the first year fruiting so no real comment yet.
Liberty is a good producer, berries are tart till fully ripe, has a long hang time. They are blue, but not ripe yet. Not a bad berry, firm, very good I would rate it. Toro has loads of sugar and even unripe berries are sweet.Flavor is excellent, It has no firmness though. Chandler produces huge berries and they are very good too. Decent firmness. Moderate producer. Large plant that produces better with pruning by producing new fruiting wood. Legacy is one of those that has Southern in it too. But it has super hardy flower buds. taste is excellent. Biggest problem is they ripen over time and when blue needs 4 or more days so hard to tell which berries are ripe and which need more time. Good firmness.
Cara’s Choice, best flavor of all for me, but just by a touch.Good firmness. Small compact plant, moderate producer. moderate vigor. Still a winner.
I added a few like Raz and Pink Popcorn, although they are too new to give a review.
None of these are early mid to late season. Chandler produces for a long time. the latest are Cara’s and Legacy. I like them all for various reasons. I’m sure many other decent plants are out there too. I heard Bonus is a good one too, although taste and such are very subjective. I also grow two Southern Highbush. Sweetcrisp and Indigocrisp. Oh Ka-Bluey was given to me by a friend who almost killed it, i got it growing again. I have not tasted any berries yet.
I heard bluecrop is a fairly good berry it is a huge producer from accounts I read, which is always nice even if berry is good but not great, it’s still a blueberry! If I had more room as they are all moderate producers, i would look at the wild types (huckleberries and such), and half -highs too.
 
http://growingfruit.org/t/montrose-apricot-and-starkbros-sweetheart-apricot/11529/2

Montrose Apricot and Starkbros Sweetheart Apricot

Can anyone tell me if they are the same? Both have edible pit. I called Burntridge who is offering Montrose and Starkbros who is offering Sweetheart and they do not know. thx


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    Stan
    Jun '17
    No, they are different.

    Montrose Apricot History by L. E. Cooke: In 1952 Lloyd Rosenvold purchased land in Montrose, Colorado. He found a very large apricot tree in a hillside pasture believed to be a seedling. The tree produced huge crops of medium to large fruit of superior flavor and quality. He was surprised as the winter was -31° and the previous year even colder. Mr. Rosenvold took seed with him when moving to Idaho in 1966. The original tree had limbs with 6" - 8" caliper. Some of the seed produced very similar trees with fruit and now growing close to the Canadian border. We selected one tree he had named Montrose because of the fruit quality and tree hardiness. Montrose has very large crops of medium to large apricots with superior sweet flavor, freestone, with a reddish blush to the skin. The L. E. Cooke Co started to grow Montrose Apricot in 1988. The trees produce well for us each year in our orchard and have a good flavor. Our sales have been to Utah, Colorado, Idaho, and other cold climate areas. To add to its uniqueness the fruit pit is sweet like the Chinese (Mormon) Apricot. This could be a good choice in Utah where sweet apricot seeds are used in salads.

    Homedale Apricot. Bred by Garfield Shults in Homedale, ID. Patented by Stark Brothers; filed in 1984; patent issued in 1986. Was marketed by Stark Brothers as "Double Delight" and currently sold as "SweetHeart". Patent info1: Discovered in 1970 as a chance seedling at Homedale, Idaho; probably a seedling of Wilson Delicious. Extended bloom period; somewhat spring frost tolerant. Tree is very productive, spreading, hardy, and self-pollinating. Medium sized fruit ripens over a relatively long period (up to 14 days) and is juicy, meaty textured, deliciously flavored, and has an orange skin with an attractive bright red blush. Freestone. Sweet kernel. Representative dates of first and last pickings at Homedale, Idaho, are July 12 and July 23. https://www.google.com/patents/USPP56511 (exp. Apr 23, 2004)

 
the benefits of a north facing lot

"North facing areas get a lot less winter and early spring light and they tend to be cooler. This means that fruit trees planted there will bud several weeks behind the same tree planted in a sunnier south facing site. If you live in a region prone to getting late frosts you don't want your fruit trees to bud and flower too early. If that tree on north facing site is still dormant when a late frost hits no harm is done. Where as the tree on a south facing site that has already budded or flowered will have the flowers killed off by the frost and thus no fruit that season."
 
Snows are almost gone here. I risked walking to the woods to look at how to convert woods to fruit forest. Funny I didnt quite remember the line of N-S, but not too far off. However I will need to use a compass to lay a clear line.

CHecked the 3 mulberry. THe need a little pruning, one lost it's leader for no apparent reason it is broken over. These trees were given to me so I dont know the variety and based on best info at the time of planting, set them 50 feet apart.

A surprize was that the last piles of snows are on the northeast side of EVERY tree in the woods. Dotting the base of every tree. What does that mean?

"Be a lamp, or a lifeboat, or a ladder."-Rumi
 

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