Chinese Sweet Pit is later bloomer and I read somewhere tastes decent too.

I might have a little better answer in a couple months but my proven performers are Tomcot and Robada.

Here is a link that might be useful: Oak Creek Orchards apricots

Tomcot blooms second of twenty five varieties of Apricot I grow. In the last two seasons Tomcot was blooming ten days earlier than Sugar Pearls. There are better Apricots in frost prone areas. Harcot Hargrand bloom late.

I believe all of the Har series is bred to bloom late. They're recommended for marginal areas, like mine.

"In NM most years there is virtually no difference in bloom time among apricot varieties, because flowering comes on so suddenly."

That's the way it is in KS too. I've tried to grow various apricots including Sugar Pearl, Tomcot, and some of the Har series. They all bloom about the same time and all get froze out most years. A couple years ago I cut them all down.

I've been discussing an apricot (Zard) with Scott Smith that is successful in MD.

According to Scott, it blooms with peaches, and has a very good flavor. It has some skin and rot issues and is small, but I intend to give it a try here.

Zard outlasted nearly all the peach blooms this year. The only other very late cot I have is Canadian White Blenheim and it is either closely related to Zard or genetically identical. Unfortunately its hard to find; I think Bob Purvis may be selling trees. Chinese I don't recall blooming all that late, but I moved it and it has not bloomed in several years.

Scott

Scott, I thought Tomcot was your only reliable apricot for the area, maybe I should try to find a Zard too. It's got a Persian name it sounds like (zard means yellow).

You can special order Canadian White Blenheim from Dave Wilson through their SOFT list in October, and Bay Laurel will ship it if you do it through them.

Carla in Sac

Thanks everyone for the replies. Looks like A person just needs to be lucky. I'll take lucky over good any day. Probably try some Hars.

PersianMD, Zard is a picky apricot to grow and it doesn't produce much. Still, it tastes great. Yes its Persian and its yellow. There is a really reliable Persian one called Shekar Pareh, it is a plumcot. It doesn't get all that sweet but its still a good fruit.

dirtpoor, Zard will give you a week or two more but its all a big dice roll so getting Hargrand for example is probably not a bad idea. Some people say Tomcot has a more staggered bloom so you are more likely to get a crop; I never noticed a lot of difference there myself.

Scott