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Who's the King of Stone Fruits? Plums, Peaches, Pluots, Nectarines, or Cherries
fruitnut44:
My best fruits are nectarines. Best being the Honey series of yellow flesh, low acid. These take on a superb flavor when grown with some water deficit and brix 20-28.
Next the Arctic series white flesh nectarines.
A couple pluots rank very high: Flavor Supreme and Flavor King. I also like Geo Pride, Flavor Grenade, Honey Punch, Flavor Finale, and Flavor Treat. Most of these are dark skin.
A few apricots rank highly: Tomcot, Robada, Orangered, and Golden Sweet.
Emerald Beaut is the only plum that tastes as good as pluots above.
Best Sweet cherries are Selah, Skeena, Sandra Rose, and Bing.
Figs rate next: Strawberry Verte, RDB, and Paradiso
Summer Muscat is a fantastic tasting grape but very hard to grow. Summer Muscat is good and much easier to grow.
Best blueberries are Sweetcrisp and Springhigh.
I've only got one peach, Valley Sweet, that ranks near the nectarines.
All above grown in a greenhouse in west TX at 4500ft elevation. http://www.davewilson.com/home-gardens/growing-fruits-and-nuts/cultural-practices/greenhouse-fruit-growing/greenhouse-fruit-production-in-west-texas
Samu:
--- Quote from: ClayMango on February 12, 2015, 05:45:55 PM ---For me, I love a good Peach. Though I heard the newly introduced Pluots are on a whole nother level of greatness.
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I certainly hope so Clay, since today I just bought Pluot Flavor Grenade bare root, and another Pluot Flavor King is on back order. (I am told that I need another plum for pollination). I just have a little concern that my location doesn't get enough chilling hours at some years, but maybe you have no problem there in Temecula, right?
Cheers!
fruitlovers:
I agree with Zands more on fruits than on politics. :D For me cherries and apricots also rank very high, right up there with nectarines. Some plums can be 10's also. But you really need to get into specific cultivars as there is so much difference in quality between cultivars. Also you need to state whether you are talking about fruits picked off trees at perfect stage, or supermarket fruits? In the supermarkets all the fruits are for the most part very low quality. Early picking, long periods of refrigeration, and cultivars picked for storage longevity rather than taste usually kill the eating delight. I won't even get into all the chemicals used for growing them.
zands:
--- Quote from: fruitlovers on February 13, 2015, 03:32:31 AM ---I agree with Zands more on fruits than on politics. :D For me cherries and apricots also rank very high, right up there with nectarines. Some plums can be 10's also. But you really need to get into specific cultivars as there is so much difference in quality between cultivars. Also you need to state whether you are talking about fruits picked off trees at perfect stage, or supermarket fruits? In the supermarkets all the fruits are for the most part very low quality. Early picking, long periods of refrigeration, and cultivars picked for storage longevity rather than taste usually kill the eating delight. I won't even get into all the chemicals used for growing them.
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+1 on Apricots and cherries. The traditional Chinese revered apricot in their medicine. Lychee too.
Supermarket cherries are high quality. Thick skin means they transport well so can be picked at ripeness. I never buy the first of the season. Wait. They get picked dark and ripe after two weeks. The last ones are the darkest and best.
zands:
--- Quote from: emegar on February 12, 2015, 07:13:12 PM ---http://www.raintreenursery.com/Fruit_Trees/Prunus_Mume_Flowering_Apricot/
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Thanks for the ume info!!! Very interesting wikipedia page on it
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