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The forecast for Kingsburg is below.  There are no storms in the foreseeable future but that can quickly change.  We will get started on peaches and nectarines in the next couple weeks and will have load volume by the week of May 28th.  White peaches should start the last week of May and white nectarines …

Flavorosa & Flavorich are commonly known as plums within the industry but are technically branded as pluots by the nursery. While some pluots like the Dapple Dandy and Flavor Grenade follow common characteristics of a pluot, many other plums are being thrown into the pluot category that do not have any special characteristics. If it …

Tree Fruit Below are variety pictures taken on 5/4/2010 of product at their current maturity, along with estimated start dates for early season tree fruit.   Peach Spring Flame 20 – 5/15 Nectarine Zee Fire – 5/24   White Peach Spring Snow – 5/31 White Nectarine Arctic Star – 6/5 Black Plum Flavorosa – 6/1 Red …

Peaches Moving into our larger sized peaches the end of this week with Earli Rich and Brittney Lane.  We will picking these varieties and a few others until mid June. Nectarines Current nectarines in production are Red Rose, Rose Diamond, Rose Bright, and Diamond Bright.  Brix and product quality are as good as we’ve ever …

Peaches Finishing up the last few picks of Zee Diamonds and Spring Flame 21’s this week.  Monday was our first pick of Crimson Lady, which is the largest peach variety to date. Nectarines Zee Fires should finish up by the end of this week.  Taking their place will be Rose Brights, Kay Glo, and Red …

Peaches This week we started picking our predominant peach varieties for this time of year, Spring Flame 21 and Zee Diamond.  Harvest will continue on these varieties into the middle of next week. Spring Flame 21                                          Zee Diamond Nectarines Zee Fire nectarines had their first pick early this week.  Harvest  will continue into the beginning …