Nadia is one of the newer developments between hybridizing sweet cherry to plums. The one that I had ordered from a nursery last season came with a little warning sign that the nursery explained it had "never been tested" here.
Jafar, How is yours doing?
I covered mine in a thin plastic after the last growing season to about 5-6 weeks ago and is doing fine.
Other things I have seen about apricots at the HOS gardens at the college are crops under shelters for the first time. The newer top-working that Karen T. had done several years ago on the older apricots seems to be working! Probably due in part to the shelters that keep the trees clean. The other part I might think is later blooming (of newer variety) during bee activity.
My Nadia leafed out and seemed to establish reasonably well last year. I planted in from bare root in the spring and did nearly no pruning.
It bloomed this year, the flowers were among the earliest. No fruit set.
So far this spring the leaves are pretty pale. I'm hoping its just waiting for warmer weather. The pluot near it has had similar experience, although it grew more vigorously last year, and a couple of the 4 varieties are still holding some fruit.
I have a Peuget Gold apricot that is in its 3rd or 4th leaf that is bearing its first fruit this year. There are maybe 10 fruits on the tree that are getting close to what I presume is full size.
Overall I've been pleasantly surprised by the health of the tree. It looks better than the cherries and peaches.
I don't spray anything, not out of principle, but due to time and inclination.
Who would we expect to find out about new, exciting and obscure stone fruit information other than Rooney? Of course. I will be interested to see what your reports are on this new fruit. I'm worried that if I kept talking about Nadia, my wife will think it's my new secret girlfriend.
There are many reports of people growing apricots/peaches/nectarines under shelters and overhangs. Seems to work quite well in our wet spring climate. Several types of cherries also seem to lose their fruit in wet springs. If they lose their fruit every year, it gets to be not worth the effort to grow them. I have already gotten rid of Jubileum pie cherry, and Danube seems to be on it's way out as well. The jury is still out on Balaton.
John S
PDX OR
I have a plum/cherry hybrid called Sprite. I love this fruit. More plum like in appearance, but the flavor is out of this world! I get so many I have to thin to keep branches from breaking. It makes the best jam. I cut them in thirds - the outer parts get dried and the inner third gets mashed and jammed. I have also made sorbet that gets raves and have added juice to hard cider. So has anyone tasted Nadia? I would love to try another hybrid.
It has been 2+ years now of having nadia plumxsweet-cherry. Each season it has been the first to bloom and I suppose there is lots of information out there of what pollinates it. I have another early plum cultivar 'lydecker' that is also an early bloomer but it is also of hybrid nature between sand plums and a California grown plum, so it can never pollinate another hybrid. (example-1: I tried enough times to control crosses of lydecker pollen to my hybrid shiro plum but all failed)
I had several nadia fruits last year and misplaced the seeds. This years bloom I wasn't in Washington so only 1 fruit set. There is no pollen from this hybrids flowers and so I am hoping and speculating the seeds from these plums are a result of no fertlization, which leaves the option that most or all the seeds will be carbon copies.
What I am hoping for is enough information so that if somebody can help me get some nadia seed produced here locally, which then I can possibly some day report more what came of them. At this point I have other Rombough hybrid plums and the one of a bunch of siblings to consistently set many plumcots during a high rainfall time of the year; that I would really be suprised if they don't prove clones to the mother.
So how are yours??
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