wipka84
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Sloes? and one other?Could someone help please, I think these are sloes? Are they and how on earth will they take another two months to ripen if they are? i suspect their not but i am not very good at the fruit by the hedge sort of stuff.
And these i dont know what they are but just out of curiosity wondered?
many thanks in advance
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wipka84
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The first photo makes the fruit look rather large, they are not much bigger than say a blackberry or a bit larger than a chickpea.
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tahir
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Top one might be a damson, how big are the fruit? Bottom one is hawthorn
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Jonnyboy
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Damson or plum?
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wipka84
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| tahir wrote: | | Top one might be a damson, how big are the fruit? Bottom one is hawthorn |
| wipka84 wrote: | | The first photo makes the fruit look rather large, they are not much bigger than say a blackberry or a bit larger than a chickpea. |
The berries/fruit are also very hard, certainly not squishable if that helps
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mutti
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i'd say the top one looks like damson - they still have a few months to go until fully ripe. Sloe's will not be of any real colour or size until Autumn - we usually wait until the first frost to pick.
having said this - fruit is good this year so maybe things will be a bit different.....
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wipka84
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Cool, thanks a lot.
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gil
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Yup, I also reckon top pic is damson, bottom one is hawthorn
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cab
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Cut the fruit of the top one open. If its mostly kind of a round stone, its a sloe. A damson is bigger than that and its more plum shaped, with a plum shaped stone.
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nettie
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Yes, it could be sloes already. Ours are going purple here, we're not that far from you.
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Jamanda
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The top one looks like the things we have here which I assume are bullaces. We have ordinary sloes too, but these are bigger, ripen earlier and are generally superior.
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