Don’t pick them too early because they are more plum tasting than cherry plus too much acids. I also used a squeeze test to see if they give some.
Tony
I don’t do squeeze test anymore. Last year I squeeze tested my Easternglo nectarines. By the time they were ripe for picking. They had bruise marks from my squeezing. My “gentle” squeezes were not that gentle after all. 
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Stop eating too much spinach!!!
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Yes, sir.
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My first Nadia, skin was very astringent, probably needs a little more ripening.
I love plums in general, this is a keeper for me, flesh is a dark red with very sweet juicy flavor.
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Now I want One.
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My first Nadia fell on the ground yesterday. I cut it up today. It was soft, probably very ripe. Unfortunately, several days of rain made the fruit to be very watery. I could not detect much of anything. Brix was 14.
Size- wise, it was a very large cherry but a small plum. I put it next to a medium size Beauty plum here. Beauty had brix between 8-10. Frequent and heavy rain has diluted fruit ripened at this time in my orchard.
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I wish We had the rain you had!
Rain is good for my brown lawn and trees in general. Every tree has perked up. It is the fruit that get negative effects…
If we split the amount of rainI have had, it would have made central MA and Newport people both happy.
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There were two fruit left on my tree,still there because they felt hard.Today,one gave a little when squeezed and so I picked it.
The flavor was very good and the flesh had multi parts of amber and red. Brady
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I had some premature nectarines fall off and I tried one anyway and usually at this point they are bitter and very tart. I would say the fruit needed three more weeks and it was very sweet. If the rain holds off, I’m going to have amazing stone fruit this year. I’m probably going to harvest my Nadia today. Going out of town for 2 weeks. Am out of town now! Coming back to water.
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Picked another Nadia today. This one was underripe. The shape was just like a cherry, a giant cherry. I put it next to a golf ball. It was almost as big.
Taste is sweet and sour ( not quite ripe). Brix was 14. I detected a hint if cherry in it. The area around the seed was definitely sour. The texture was firm like a Bing cherry. The flesh to seed ratio was good, lot of meat with a small seed.
I suspect that it will not be this firm once it is fully ripe. Had it have this firm texture and sweeter, it would be one of the best cherries.
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Picked my last batch of Nadia before squirrels took them all ( they broke my bread bags and stole Nadia from the whole branch !!!
Even with so much rain, 2 of the last 5 fruit had brix at 17 and 19. In a dry year, it could definitely get sweeter. We could detect some cherry flavor but the texture was not as firm as Bing when fully ripe (but not mushy, either.). The fruit turned dark color when ripe, as dark or almost as dark as Bing.
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Found these two very last Nadia this morning. They are bigger than any of my plums. The pic showed the size of Satsuma plum, Nadia and Bing cherry.
Ate one. Brix was 19.5. Even Hubby said he liked it and could tasted cherry in it.
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Nadia is a keeper but hopefully it will set more fruits for me as it aged.
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My Nadia was the first plum to start turning color, in July, but took so long to reach ripeness that Shiro beat it by a few days. Most of my Nadia ripened with Santa Rosa. I assume the lack of sun in the last 2 weeks of July had something to do with it.
Soft, overripe Nadia taste like a typical red plum to me, but firm Nadia has the acidity that gives it a cherry-like flavor. Of course, I thought Nadia tasted like it had little Santa Rosa in it when comparing the two. I guess it is all subjective.
I agree.
I wish it ripened earlier. It ripens about the same time as Shiro and Lavina here. Picked the last two around 8/18. And the last one had brix at 20.
Squirrels swiped a whole branch of Nadia from me. I only see a couple of squirrels around but they have caused major damage this year.
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Anyone have comments on the skin?
I just ate 2 overripe Nadia. It seemed a lot like Burgundy plum. The skin had very little bitterness after chewing it. I haven’t been checking sugar levels much this year, but these two seemed to have higher sugar than expected for the weather. One was 19 brix and the other was 20 brix. I wonder if it is the cherry DNA?
If the skin bitterness was there, it was not noticeble by us. The sweetness overwhelmed it. I also tasted more cherry flavor with these very ripe last two. I would not call them overripe since the texture was not mushy.
Due to lack if heat and lot of rain for weeks this year but the ripe ones still tasted better than any of my J plums. I expect they will perform better next year (if we have less rain).