Hi Barbie....Summers are long here so maybe you can let them go and they will mature before January and the cold. I will ask for you on Saturday at ECHO. I don't suppose there is any chance you and Troy can come along....wishful thinking on my part. :)

My Anna is at least partly self-fertile. My Dorsett starts blooming first, then the Anna. While their bloom periods overlap, the Anna blooms at least a couple of weeks after the Dorsett's blossoms have fallen. Yet the last blooms on the Anna still set apples.

If your Anna is healthy and strong, I don't know that I'd knock the blooms off. If the tree is sparse or unhealthy, I'd knock the blooms off so the tree can devote its energy ti growth.

If the tree is blooming now, any fruit it sets should ripen in September or October, well before the cold. Just be sure to keep up your fertilizing and spraying regimen. (Bug and disease pressures are going to be worse with late summer apples.)

Also, thin the fruit mercilessly when it's time - if you let it over-bear now, the tree won't have the energy for a crop next spring.

Troy is off in Jax. with his grandfather and grandmother - I have to go and get him on Saturday - I was about to go and post that I am jealous and I want you to bring me back info, seeds - whatever you can. I'd love to go if I could.

If I was still in my twenties I'd go get him on Friday night and get a sitter for the girls on Saturday and bring him down with me/us - can you say ROAD TRIP!? But, I don't think there is enough coffee in the world any more. LOL. 12 hours of driving in 24...ouch.

The Dorsett's aren't blooming so maybe it wouldn't hurt to see if they manage to pollinate themselves... Hmmmm... *thinking*

OHOHOH!!! Have you been reading my blog? (So not a plug - but I put a few things there for you/Nick.) LOL. Troy has something for Nick, and we found out what was going on with the citrus tree (Was it Nick or Troy that asked about those itty bitty wasps?) AND why I don't have aphids, too. ;-) And Rick's Eggplant gave up it's first fruit (long purple) last week as well. I yanked up all the rest of the poor awful tomatoes from outdoors now all i have left are the ones in the pots on my deck. I got the lawn mower fixed, too - so next time you come over I promise the grass won't attack you in that back section!

Barbie

Hi Barbie, I read the blog to catch up with you guys. :) Pretty cool about the wasps. I put some red noodle beans in the ground yesterday so now I need to know how to help the wasps find them.

Nick's apples, both the dorset and the anna, bloomed at different times and self polinated. the Dorset has two little apples and some blooms on it at this moment. The Anna, which bloomed probably two months ago, has a nice big fruit on it. It had a couple more fruits on it but I think curious walkers pulled them off. It is unfortunate that my trees are near the sidewalk, but not much choice there. Anyway...as you know we are off on our vacation from the 15 - the 22nd. After that I am going up to visit Audra (a very pregnant Audra) and if you guys want we can stop by on the way and visit or pick you up if you want to come along. :) plan ahead!!

Tina

That Anna looks CRAZY good right now! LOL.

Hmmm...pigs, goats, chickens - I might have to go see her, too! Keep me posted ont he date- but the girlies will definitely want to go see the critters and I don't know how kid friendly they are. I might have to put a shout out here to her and see. (And see if she'd mind us all invading.)

What Troy has is a stack of cards- He found a bunch of old Pokeman and such and wanted to give them to Nick. :-D

As for the wasps- who knows maybe only certain types? I've never really noticed that type of behavior before. I remember when the boys were checking them out they were all lined up the branches and not flying around like usual. Now they (like the aphids) are just gone. No ID yet, but when I went to ask around some bug forum they said there was such a thing as an aphid wasp...but it was not my critter.

Barbie

Hi Barbie

We have some confused trees, I think because of the warm winter that we had.
I had an Anna apple in Phoenix and it fruited the first year planted, it was very prolific and made a lot of applesauce with it.
From the fruit trees that I had, here was the schedule for producing, first was the oranges, after Anna apple, apricots, peaches, plums, figs, pomegranates.
From the trees that I have now here is the schedule, first was the citrus, then the plums, my 2 apples have fruit, not Anna variety, my peaches and hybrid varieties of plum, apricots and nectarines have flowers and yesterday I had my first ripe fig from a pot that I have in the middle of the yard, remember the pot? my other fig in the ground is loaded with fruit not ripe yet, and I am getting small pomegranates, remember the small pot by were you sitting?
They are certainly all confused, I wouldn't take the flowers, I am going to leave them and see what happens.:)

Yesterday's ripe fig

Silvia

My fig is coming along, too. It's tiny and the fruit came on late as well.

I picked my first smaller type pomegranate and it has new flowers - it seems to flower 2-3 times a year while the Pom Wonderful does only once.

Some times I think I'll never figure it all out. Like some sort of eternal novice. LOL. Keeps me on my toes though! I thought the warmth is what kept the first fruit from setting I wouldn't think that it would fruit again.

I also have had multiple flushes of flower blooms on my apple trees this year and they have been coming at random times for each tree. Very few trees have set fruit because they seem to be taking turns rather than blooming at the same times for the needed cross pollination. It's a strange year indeed caused by the warm winter.

Lou

Barbie guess what?! The Anna apple tree has a second flush of bloom on it. We already ate the 'lone apple' and is was GREAT...so maybe I'll get some more. Isn't that just weird as HECK?

WOAH!

I bet this one is caused by the sudden cool/wet weather. I noticed i had a HUGE (4-5') sucker shoot up from one of the apples and it's blooming... so tempting to let it go but i need to cut it back.

I see another blossom at the bottom of the picture, too there. :-)