Apricots

[Kapohocat]

Anyone have any luck with apricots?

Was just wondering as I miss them right off the tree!

[Lee M-S]

I miss apricots, too. But they require chill; you might be able to grow them in Volcano or higher.

Tropical apricot, Dovyalis, is a possible alternative. Not really an apricot, but is supposed to have a similar but more sour flavor. My favorite quote from the website below: "Plants are usually identified as sour and less sour, thorny or nearly thornless." Sound like something you want to mess with? read more at
http://www.ctahr.hawaii.edu/sustainag/ex...pricot.pdf

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[d96778]

Kapohocat...I also miss having an apricot tree. You just can't buy cots as good as right off the tree...or any fruit for that matter....But I've found that the California cots are the only ones that taste the closest to what I remember as a child. The ones grown in Washington or Canada or Oregon just don't seem to have the same flavor. I was just at Costco the other day, & they have cots. I bought some from there a couple of months ago just to make some jam, & they tasted pretty good when they got very ripe. The ones they have right now would be too late to be Calif. cots, but they were a product of USA, so they might be from the more northern states.

Dee

[Rene Siracusa]

I learned from my neighbor to juice them, add water and brown sugar, to make a tropicalapricotade.

A few months ago i potted up cuttings that will be on sale at Pahoa Feed & Fertilizer within a few weeks time.

[Kapohocat]

Yes, nothing really seems like the ones I remember from my mom's house. (we just sold it so maybe feeling more nostalgic for them).

Guess it is one thing to add to my summer must get while visiting Cali in warm weather. Have lots of them while there, and miss them when back home here.

[sputnut]

We just had a huge crop of them here in Illinois, but nowadays you gotta fight the Japanese beetles for them, as they gang up on any that start to turn ripe. They ate all the leaves off my plum tree, too, but left the plums alone. go figure.

comin' your way soon!

[Oregon Woodsmoke]

They need chill in the winter and heat in the summer. They aren't real fond of being wet.

My experience with fruit trees is that they will often grow where the experts tell you they can not be grown. So, it is always worth giving it a try. Just don't invest a lot of money into it until you can get 1-2 trees to flower, set fruit, and sweeten up.

Loquats aren't the same, but they aren't too far off, if you can't get apricots to fruit.