On Monday, March 30, 2015 at 9:38:54 AM UTC-7, songbird wrote:
Hypatia Nachshon wrote:

First of the season showed up two weeks ago!




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Last June, I put in a whole bunch of plants, but got zip fruit, though that's supposed to be their season in this latitude (34 N.) Gritted my teeth,
took good care of them; hoped for next June.

if you planted them in June that is too late
for them to flower and put on fruit for the same
month,

Yeah, I was too lazybusy to get plants in sooner...my bad...but I'm sill disappointed that good-sized plants, properly transplanted from nursery pots,
should have just settled in comfortably but produced zip fruit.

o e but i have had plants put on flowers and
fruit while still in the pots and even survive
the transplanting as long as the roots are not
too disturbed and the watering is kept up.
usually i remove all but one flower/fruit if
i'm transplanting and they do ok.


Whaddya know, mid-March, they're taking off!

i've had first flowers anywhere from March 11
to the end of June. are your plants flowering
now or showing signs of waking up from dormancy?

Plants are beginning to flower; a few already bearing fruit.

I don't understand about "dormancy". AFAIK, this happens in colder climates. T/F? Mine is "Mediterranean" --So. Calif coastal, with mild temps; no frost*.
So would dormancy actually be a factor?

this year i've only checked the plants so far
and they are doing well because they had full snow
cover the whole season. nice and green. eventually
i will have to peel back the thin layer of pine
needles once the weather actually warms up to where
it isn't freezing overnight.


songbird

* by contrast with David Ross, who is not on the Coast but just over the mountain in the San Fernando Valley. ISTR they do get frost sometimes.

HB