{"id":403,"date":"2020-05-28T19:30:37","date_gmt":"2020-05-29T01:30:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.widespreadmalus.com\/?p=403"},"modified":"2020-05-30T11:39:52","modified_gmt":"2020-05-30T17:39:52","slug":"are-you-interested-in-apricots","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.widespreadmalus.com\/?p=403","title":{"rendered":"Are you interested in apricots?"},"content":{"rendered":"

I’m propagating a couple of interesting apricots.<\/p>\n

One is\/was the co-state champion tree for Colorado, with a trunk much larger than I can get my arms around, but it’s in severe decline. I grafted a copy in about 2014 that’s now reached bearing age.\u00a0 Apparently the original is well over a century old. It is also more reliable than any other apricot I’ve seen in the Boulder area, producing a few fruits during many years that other apricots are barren.\u00a0 In 2008 we made quite a bit of jam from groundfalls. (Visit this tree on the north side of the West Senior Center in downtown Boulder).<\/p>\n

The other is from 8100′ in Garfield County, next to a dirt road, two thousand feet above the Colorado River. This had fruit when I first noticed it in the summer of about 2003. It bore a good crop a couple of years ago. This tree is in quite a xeric spot — dry hillside, south facing — but has been doing pretty well there. As with the other tree, fruits are small, but good-tasting.<\/p>\n

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This apricot tree, at 8100′ elevation on the Coffee Pot Road in Garfield County, is the highest fruiting apricot I’ve yet seen in Colorado.<\/p><\/div>\n

I’d like to get both of these trees grafted onto rootstocks and distributed to several interested, experienced gardeners\/fruit growers.\u00a0 For this next round of propagation, I want to ensure the continuation of these varieties, but in future years I think it would be great to see them more widely distributed.<\/p>\n

If you are in the (general) Boulder\/Denver area, and are interested in growing one or both of these, please contact me<\/a> (Eric) and let me know a\u00a0 bit about you and your experience with fruit growing.\u00a0 It’s conceivable I’ll have some small trees in 2021, but due to a delay in receiving some rootstocks, it could be 2022.<\/p>\n

Short of providing actual trees, I’m also happy to provide dormant scions\/budwood or Summer budwood.\u00a0 Let me know if that’s of interest.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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