I haven't heard from you so I'm resending this. Here is my reply to your 9/20 email that I received from you. There are 3 photos attached. There were only 3 nectarines left on the tree. The photos are of one that shows some rot. It was very hard to split it to see the inside. Note there are a few "splits", and the rot seems to be spreading from the splits, but that was not necessarily the case on all of them. Are the splits the result of watering or lack thereof? There was no evidence of bugs that I could see, although I have found an occasional earwig on some fruits. Also, the rot has not penetrated to the seed, but I have noticed that on others that I have picked, but I don't know if the rot started inside or out. I did salvage parts of some that were ripe on a few. I did notice that some of the seeds were split or cracked when I exposed them. Also, early in the spring as the fruit was large enough, I put small drawstring fine mesh jewelry sacks on the fruits to protect them from birds and insects as they grew. I had good luck doing that in the past, with only a few that rotted. I did reuse the bags this year after soaking in a light bleach solution. There are 2 large nectarines left on the tree, one in a sack and one not and neither show any signs of rot. I'm checking them every day. Thanks! Kent Hall Bandon