The reason I asked. Because yesterday I stopped by Flower world nursery and saw they have some Flavor Grenad good size trees. I bought one. Remember you had one red fruit riped in August. The tree I bought has one flit green fruit. I think the harvest time is in raining season.
Anyway already bought one let’s see how it doing next few years. Thank you so much for information Jafar. Below my new tree.
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Vincent,
I found a picture from September,2019.This shows the fruit,about the ripeness,for my liking.
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Thank you so much for looking for picture @Bradybb Brad. I am so happy to see that picture. It’s mean some years we can harvest Flavor Grenade here not too late or before raining season. Thank again.
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This is the first year mine split, and I had other stuff split that doesn’t usually. I’m hopeful that it won’t be a big problem. This year the stone fruit seem a little later than normal here.
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Funny, this year my Splash aren’t as good as usual. Maybe still not ripe, but it’s almost September.
I did pick the very cracked Flavor Grenade, and half of it was very good:
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Great news,I am excited to have Flavor Grenade. DWN said maturity date August 30 to October 2. Your fruit looks delicious not even the end of August yet. It’s skin red color as apple.
My splash first year, the tree wasn’t strong enough to support energy to its fruits. Especially I didn’t thin them out. Too many fruits on one tree. Tomorrow I will pick all last ones in. I am happy to tasted them only on the first year of planting. I like theirs strong flavor. If the taste a little more sweet would be perfect. Hopefully next year. Thank you for all information @murky Jafar. We have a good year enjoyed all the fruits.
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My tree flowered a bunch in the Spring, but didn’t set any fruit. The Asian grocery store had “green plums” from Family Tree farms that I’m pretty sure were Flavor Grenade pluots (left?) and Emerald Beaut plums (right?).
The Flavor Grenade had a really nice plum/pear/apricot flavor and maybe mango or hint of banana or something else tropical going on? The other one hadn’t started to soften yet and was just a sweet mild plum taste. The skin didn’t seem to be tart on it. I was eating slices though, so maybe I wasn’t getting as much skin:flesh because of the size?
In any case, hopefully I’ll be picking lots off my own tree next year.
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I would have guessed flavor grenade for the big one on the right.
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Here is information about the Plumcots they sell.
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Red Grenade and Flavor Grenade two different fruit varieties. Based on familytreefarms information from Brady.
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The large fruit on the right in Evilpaul’s post is just the same color as mine got when I picked them.
BTW in south Louisiana I picked my last FG June 23rd. That tells you how much location can move those published ripening dates.
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So while plums do not ripen off the tree, it appears that Flavor Grenade Pluots do.
I’ve tested enough now to know. They turn more red and become sweeter, not just from concentrating the sugars during dehydration.
I am guessing though its apricot parentage really isn’t expressed in the taste, perhaps in this way it is expressed as apricots do ripen off the tree.
Any others find this to be true?
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Yes, it behaves the same for me; but just to make it clear, the quality is way better when you let it get red on the tree.
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I’m sure. I still have a lot on the tree. Let’s see if the birds and nature in general let some get there.
Next year I’m netting the tree.
PS when I let a few get all red inside but not fermenting yet, I’d have sworn I was eating a ripe nectarine!
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Why not buy it now? From Amazon you will get it in a day or two.
Don’t be optimistic, the more sweet the fruit is, the more viciously it will be attacked by critters.
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Yours looks way better than ours, at what height are you topping yours out at?
For ours, I headed back the central leader at 32" and I’m controlling the height to a little less than 8 feet.