Moorpark Apricot Tree produces very large, 2-2.5″, deep yellow and orange-red blushed fruit with juicy, sweet, deep-orange flesh of excellent quality. This vigorous dwarf tree grows 8-10 feet tall, flowers early with showy, pinkish white blossoms, and dependably produces fruit July-August. Most Apricots require around 600 chill hours of below 45º F.
Chinese Mormon produces heavy crops of medium, yellow to orange fruit with excellent flavor and texture very early in the growing season. It blooms late with frost-resistant buds, making it an excellent choice for areas with later Spring frosts. It has what people call a Sweet Pit because you can actually eat the kernel like you would an almond. This Apricot requires about 700 hours of chill time below 45º F.
Blenheim produces medium to large, pale orange, red-speckled fruit with very juicy, orange flesh and enticing, sweet, aromatic flavor that sets the standard for apricots. This early-blooming, self-pollinating variety is famous in California for its canning quality, but is also good for drying and fresh eating.
Puget Gold Apricot was developed in western Washington and is the easiest to grow and most disease resistant Apricot variety we have found.
A reliable and easy to grow seedling rootstock for plums, apricots and sometimes peaches, Myrobalan 29C is a vigorous and well-anchored rootstock that produces a standard sized plum or apricot tree. Trees grafted on Myrobalan often take a year or two longer to bear fruit as it is a seedling rootstock. Can also be grown on its own to produce small wild plums that are fairly sour but make for a good wildlife planting.
One of the best tasting loquats we’ve had the pleasure to try, Pupello has a tropical flavor with tons of sweetness! Our first reaction was that it tastes like an otter pop. Pupello does decently well at producing late season flowers making it a fairly reliable producer for us here.
Obusa was introduced to the Hawaiian islands in the 1990s and is thought to be a cross between Tanaka and Kusunoki. Fruits are deep yellow and quite large, and perhaps most exciting for us here in Oregon, it is supposed to be a late flowering variety. We’re still trialing this one but it’s looking like it might be a winner here.
Along with Obusa, Mizuho loquat was introduced to the Hawaiian islands in the 1990s from Japan. It has some of the largest fruits, sometimes up to 100 grams, and is very sweet. We are unsure if Mizuho will produce flowers late enough into the season to reliably produce fruit in more northern climates but excited by the greenhouse grown fruit we’ve tasted from it.
