Empress is one of my 2 most productive Euros.
Melon,
@alan has a problem with us young folk that are full of life and enjoy our passions of growing things as well as discussing them. Scott made this forum for us all to enjoy and share as a community.
The schtick of wanting recognition doesnt work with this forum… the heart system (which he doesnt like that you heart my posts and not his…he has said this openly)… is odd behavior.
He wants to make it clear to everyone that Methley is a black knot magnet and that its taste is bland or lacking. Which is why he started that new thread… to further his point of view. He wants the results to match his.
The fact is that its not true for everyone.
Dingdong which is on this forum i think… lives in a climate similar to the poster. He says its an ‘excellent’ plum…
Why would anyone want to be so passionate about talking people out of something that could be ‘excellent’ to them? That for sure cant be the spirit of this forum.
Send me a PM @Melon and i will share info about Ruby Queen. We cant post about it because alan has a thread on it… but we can discuss it privately in peace. Without the 
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@alan and @krismoriah I think you have done enough rounds of arguing here. Please no more arguing on this thread, mentioning of each other, etc. Thanks.
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Wow. Wild commentary in this thread.
Since I was linked in my video, I’ll wade in to say that we research our product information thoroughly at Raintree, and found several reputable resources saying that Methley was reliably BK resistant (which of course never means immune). We don’t see black knot in Western WA since our summers are not hot and humid. Plums seem to be quite challenging for folks in those hot and humid climates to grow, and sometimes that’s challenging to address in our short-form videos. They are dead simple to grow here since their bloom resist most of our cold-and-wet spring weather, and we don’t get summer rain that could cause splitting or bad brown rot. We don’t have the insects other regions have.
In response to OP, I can say I grow Methley, Early Golden, Kuban Comet (I know, not a real Asian plum, but it really performs like one), Beauty, Hollywood, Shiro, and have just planted Flavor Supreme, Flavor Grenade, and Cocheco. My favorite is Early Golden (my earliest fruit besides mulberries), followed by Hollywood, and then a tie between Methley and Shiro. Methley’s flavor - when properly thinned by at least 60% - is really great: rich, sweet, complex, and strong. But it has such a short window of ripening that I tend to miss a lot of it if I’m not paying really close attention. Shiro doesn’t have such amazing flavor but it ripens so slowly that I can harvest it over many weeks in many stages of ripeness - same with Early Golden. I wish we could grow some of the later-ripening J. plums like Elephant Heart (swoon!), Emerald Beaut, Golden Nectar, and most pluots, but we just don’t have the summer heat to get them to reliably ripen.
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