Showing posts with label fruit tree. Show all posts
Showing posts with label fruit tree. Show all posts

Saturday, March 9, 2013

New year flowering peach

My mom grew this peach from seed years ago. The special thing about it is that it blooms every year exactly on the day of the lunar new year, whether it falls on January or February. So what happened to the concept of chilling hours?

The fruits are so numerous that they don't reach full size, about an inch across. if grown from seed, it flowers as early as the second or third year.  the color variation from one seedling to the next is baby pink to almost red. I know this because we have given seeds to many interested neighbors and have seen the resulting offspring.


Owari satsuma

This was taken exactly one year ago. This tree has been in the ground for six years and has not been bothered by the Houston frosts, even when temps were down in the twenties for ten days straight ( 2009). I visited this tree yesterday, lots of vegetative growth, but not a single bloom! What happened? Heavy crop last year perhaps. Still, couldn't it muster a few dozen blooms at least?


Sunday, March 3, 2013

Crazy citrus blooms!

Have you ever seen so many blossoms on an orange tree? about a thousand blossoms and the tree is only a little over two feet tall!  It doesn't have a name, just labeled "naval orange" but I have a feeling it is a Hamilton.