My best fig, Strawberry Verte has a flavor in the skin similar to my favorite nectarines. When properly grown with a water deficit, nectarines have sugar dots/speckling as in this picture. I can tell by looking that these will be superb.

Looks really good.

They are better than they look. Be wary of the big smooth skinned, even colored nectarines. They aren't as good as these. I like them best at 24 to 32 brix. Store bought are usually 10-16. If you get an 18 or above in the store it's unusual.

Looks yummy! And thanks for the advice for picking them.

They look great Steve:)

What variety of nectarine is that?

We had our first (small) crop this year... Sunraycer (a UF release) variety and it was delicious.  I shouldn't say "we" -- my daughter descended on the tree like  a biblical plague of locusts and I was lucky to get one! But it was mighty tasty

Looks like a winner.

Wills:

I wish you could grow these in your new greenhouse. I couldn't grow them in my climate without a greenhouse. But in your climate a greenhouse is only going to help with tropicals and related freeze sensitive fruits. Humidity down there is already too high for nectarines and a greenhouse will only make that worse. There is also the chilling issue.

As in many places figs are one of the easiest to grow high brix fruit for those that like things really sweet. Too much rain is still an issue with figs but not as bad as with nectarines.

Beautiful looking nectarines. I too look for the sugar spots. This has been an excellent year for California white nectarines. I just got a beautiful box of snow queens from Goldbud farms in California.

Steve,

That is ok......I already have the outside peach trees.  The 2 mango and two lychee are the only trees that will be in the greenhouse when it is built......the rest of the space will be for the new started figs in the winter and for winter veggies.  In the summer I will remove the plastic roof.  

Steve - I tend to enjoy a bit of tartness , daughter has acquired I think (we both like really sour plums, for example). I've also got a Sunmist and its a bit sweeter (but its an older tree , as well -- I wonder if the stone fruits improve with the tree's age as it happens with figs).  Im sure your varieties have higher chill hours than we can get down here -- that and , as you mentioned our subtropical humidity seems to limit us on some of the super sweet nectarines, apples,and peaches.

Steve I looked up the Honey Fire variety and lo and behold it has a low enough chilling requirement to work in my neck of the woods. You said it was tasty == any other reasons to recommend it?  I have  peach tree that Im not very happy with and this sounds like a good replacement.

Thanks, J

They do look good!

Good thread.
Thanks for making me curious enough to look Steve.