Anyone know if a candy heart can be pollinized by flavor king, dapple dandy, and/or flavor supreme pluot? There’s citrus, persimmons, and early/late season dwarf nectarine and peaches blooming close by too. In 9b
How strictly should I take the specific pollinizer recommendations on the sales tags for trees when purchasing?
Thanks for the all the help this site has provided.
All Asian plums, pluerries and pluots will polinate each other if their blooms overlap in time and bees or other pollinating insects are present.
All these are irrelevant.
Take them with a big grain of salt. Pollination partners listed on a tag are fine, but there are many other varieties that would work just as well.
The ones on the tag are probably only going to be things the seller carries as well.
I had this question about Nadia Cherry plum a year ago. I asked on here and people said pluots would work just fine. I asked Raintree and they claimed pluots will not pollinate as well as Asian plums. Funny how the seller can have a different response to these questions.
Yes interesting, “they’ve” told me all sorts of things. Did you end up trying the pluots to pollinate?
I ordered the Nadia at Cummins last spring so it is coming this year. I have the Nadia, 2 different kinds of 4 in 1 pluots, weeping Santa Rosa and fruit punch pluerry all coming. I already have 2 bubblegum plum as well so I should be more than covered either way. I think Drew51 has stated he has pluots around his Nadia and it pollinates just fine though. I just have a good area for plums so I am planning to grow a lot of them. My agriculture extension mentions plums, apples and pears all grow well where I live. Besides where I live each pluot costs 79 cents from the grocery store so a tree pays for itself.
Hi Jared,
Candy Heart is the earliest of the plums/pluots/pluerries for me. Depending on where you are that is 9B, possible options for you are:
Flavorella
Emerald Drop
Howard Miracle
Splash
Dapple Supreme
Note that all of these have been reported to bloom early in California. However, even within that there will be variation.
For me, My Laroda plum would bloom a week after Candy Heart, offering enough overlap that I would get decent Candy Heart crops (but not great). If you have more chill then your bloom time will be more compact.
Flavor King and Dapple Dandy do not overlap Candy Heart at all, at least where I am, and Flavor Supreme would not be expected to be any better. Good luck!
Thank you all very much. Having tried an emerald drop last summer for the first time and just learning it’s an earlier bloomer (and that bloom times is what matters - thank you Stan), I think I’m looking to plant one of those with a candy heart in the space I have left. Wonderful resource y’all are.
This year Inca is going to overlap bloom with Candy Heart. Nothing else that I still have looks active.