Yes, I have Flavor Queen Pluot.
Flavor Queen is the only pluot that I have that tasted like freshly pressed sugarcane juice and nothing else. Emerald Drop has a little bit of complexity. The best one in the same line is Emerald Beaut.
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My Flavor Queens are twice as big as Emerald Drops. Then again, the Flavor Queen has a lot lower fruit sets than Emerald Drop because of the timing of the blooms. Practically there is heavy rain during the peak bloom of Flavor Queen, so theyāre naturally thinned out and thus the bigger fruits.
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im glad i have these emerald drop pluot still healthy half way through year one in zone 7 NC
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I am surprised at the difference in my Flavor Queen in comparison to yours Joe. We do have significant micro climate variations with me on the coastal hills and you located a bit north east on the flatland but the flavor profile of my fruit is quite different for some reason. Mine are also top work grafted to prunus cerasifera. The skin and flesh adjacent to the pit is always quite tart while the rest of the fruit is very juicy and sweet. I sourced my scions from the Berkeley CRFG exchange. I have also had a very heavy yield this year (no thinning), close to 300 large fruit on one medium size tree.
If you are passing by Vallejo in the next week or so please feel free to stop by and sample some.
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IMO thatās not Flavor Queen. FQ has no tartness at skin or pit. Those exchange varieties arenāt always what they claim to be.
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Interesting, any guess as to what they may be otherwise? I noticed that the Flavor Queen that I bought at a farmers market were quite bland compared to mine and lacked the distinct floral fragrance of my ripe fruits. They did appear to be identical in appearance.
No I donāt know what it might be. There are so many.
Might do that!
I just had one like this, maybe a touch more yellow. I picked it several days ago as the one with the most give. This is the first one that Iāve really liked rather than just showing promise.
It was delicious. Crunchy limeade. I suspect the brix was around 20 or so. I didnāt measure it, but it was plenty sugary all the way through for the first time for me.
Hopefully the rains we are having isnāt splitting the rest.
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With pluots I donāt think the external color and what the inside is like always correlates across growing conditions.
My Flavor Grenade and Splash get a lot redder than it seems to for other folks.
Whatās the texture like on those yellow ones? The yellowest I have, the first ones turning, seem to have started softening at the stem end. Getting a little wrinkly. I donāt know if theyāll all do that. Iāve yet to have one that yellow. Those look good.
Why did they name it Emerald if it is yellow, not green when ripe?
Iāve noticed with green gages that usually the yellow ones are sweeter and juicier but sometimes there are ones that are green that are in the high 20s in brix.
edit: I now have some going golden. Based on the one I ate warm from the tree, I think Iām going to agree that Iāll like them better like this. The texture, while still good, is probably going in the wrong direction. I bet the brix is high, but also very tangy.
