SWEET PIT, Chinese or Mormon - An early-bearing, heavy producing variety. Fruit is of good quality and medium size with yellow to medium orange color. Good flavor and smooth texture. Trees do well in colder climates. Good pollinizer. Ripens mid-June through mid-July. Does well in late frost areas. Skin color is orange with red blush. (Mid-late season/self-fertile.)
Myrna wrote: This is the kind I had as a child. We just ate the inside of the pits, the seeds, which tasted like almonds. We also baked with them--two crops for the price of one.
Eric wrote: Steve's parents have been tree fruit farmers since Darwin came crawling out of the primordial soup. The apricots do have to be sweet pit only, the others have high traces of cyanide good if you are a spy. The sweet pits pit taste very similar to almonds. I like them good enough to eat plain.
E.
Myrna wrote: Are these the kind his folks have--Chinese or Mormon?
Your dad, LH, also remembers eating sweet pit nuts. Do you think that, maybe, they used to be more common when folks started trees from seeds? I don't know if they breed true or not. Actually, I have never had luck with starting apricot seeds and getting anything to grow.
Our poor apple tree (maybe a Jonathan?) may not have apples next year. It had to be severely pruned. It was so loaded with apples this year that, when that big wind came through, it broke a lot of the big branches. They had to be cut back. Poor thing looks like an amputee. It looks like the shade trees the Greeks at home liked and I didn't. I used to call them "screaming trees" with their dying fingers clumped together and pleading with the sky for help.
I guess we need to have Eric and Steve come and look and offer wisdom. How about it?
Eric wrote: I'll ask I'm sure he will he is quite fond of my parents.
E.
