SoCal is famously 🤙 chill ✌️, but is it chill enough to grow stone fruit? We’re talking about the chill hours that stone fruit (peach, apricot, cherry, etc.) and other deciduous fruit trees like apples & pears require in order to bear fruit each year.

With kumquat season starting to wind down and Loquat season just starting to pick up, the recent Spring Equinox—or as I like to call it: the Spring Equatnox (sorry)—is a great reminder to enjoy, and make the most of, these two notoriously underutilized fruits.