Our permanent Alderman Plum also set a good crop this year, but unfortunately something ate 90% of the green fruit off the tree in a couple of days. Why something decided to eat it when it was green beats me. Any how taste is good, fruit is a little bit larger than Toka and has more of an egg shape. We have had no disease issues with the tree or fruit. Japanese Beetles will hit the foliage pretty hard.
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I got a few too, I clean picked so some weren’t tree ripened but should do fine in some processed goodies. I think this variety is well suited for market-larger attractive fruit that is more durable than other hybrid plums I grow. Flavor is good, but not top tier
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I have one, planted 8 years ago. It is just starting to bear. I picked a half dozen this year, birds got the rest. What do you use as a pollinator?
The last two springs… my AU Rosa and Shiro plums have bloomed set fruit… then we get a late march frost… and all fruit shrivvel and drop.
I have tried grafting in some later blooming varieties to possibly help… including Alderman, Superior, Beauty, Vic Red American plum.
I hope some of those will pollinate each other.
TNHunter