Good idea on the post…i’m going to steal that. I have a limb touch the ground and the rabbits are eating all the leaves off of it.
Everything looks great. You can eat splash over an extended period. They just continue to get sweeter and sweeter. I would imagine FS should be pretty close to ripening for you. I like the trellis. That is a slick way to grow fruit.
Thank you very much. It is a lot of work isn’t it
I have it, just remind me when the time comes.
Jwsemo,
Your fruits looked clean. What are your spray schedules?
Tony
Haha. Actually drew that post is over a year old. I received flavor Supreme from two different sources this spring and have several successful grafts growing now. Thanks for the offer though.
I spray bravo in fall and spring dormant season, this year I used it during bloom for blossom blight. Then I spray on a two week schedule unless it rains then I spray right after the rain. I mostly use topsin with captan, but periodicly I rotate in pristine or indar. I especially prefer pristine and indar late in the summer when we start having heavy dews. For bugs I mainly use imadin, but I like to use mustang max at petal fall, and later in the summer for stink bugs. I use seven XLR for Japanese beatles. I think it is very important to stay ahead of problems rather than waiting for them to show up, especially with fungal diseases. Much easier to prevent than to cure.
Well that’s my weakness, most of mine failed, only a few takes, oh well, I’ll try again next year! Cool, good luck with it!
can you grow this in zone 9
Flavor Supreme pluot , harvested this afternoon in my orchard.
I had previously harvested other interspecifics such as Flavorella plumcot, Flavorosa pluot, plum parfait plumcot , Early Dapple pluot, Bella Gold Peacotum, Hesse plumcot , but Flavor Supreme is much tastier than the other varieties, Dapple Supreme will come soon.
Some photos of Flavor Supreme.
Regards
Jose
Congratulations on your success with Flavor Supreme. In my climate it has been a disappointing failure. Five years of fruiting with only a few each year and those few damaged by insects and disease. My tree looks like yours except I only count 3 fruit on mine this year. My tree flowers when weather is cool and there are few pollinators. I admire your success.
Have you tried hand pollination to see if you can increase cropping?
Great harvest Jose. FS is very hard to get fruit set because bees aren’t attracted to the flowers. Just today I grafted FS onto three other pluots hoping to fool the bees into landing on a few FS flowers. I’ve watched the bees fly up to FS trees and then fly off without visiting any flowers. The best set I ever got was by moving flowering potted pluots of multiple varieties into one mass group. I pushed all the flowers together as much as possible.
Beyond that hand pollination works but is very tedious.
Maybe other types of bees would work better. My experience is mostly bumblebees, some honeybees.
I’ve eaten them many years and they are an all time great fruit. The best pluot. Even better than Flavor King.
All else I’ll say is that despite the 26 brix those fruits look 2-3 weeks or more from being ripe. Fully ripe they are darker color. Still mottled but dark.
Those must have a very big tart component. Even full ripe they can be pretty tart at skin and seed along with very sweet.
Yes.
The bumblebees, at least the most common species in Spain (Bombus Terrestris), do not even come close to the flowers of FS.
Regarding attractants for bees, here in Spain a lot of commercial brands of bee attractant pheromones are marketed, to improve pollination of stone fruit trees, so it can be a good solution.
Regards
Jose
I would gladly accept that proposal, but I would have to get up very early to go pick the fruit from your greenhouse hahahaha.
I have taken some photographs of the area of my orchard, intended for plums and interspecific hybrids.
There are 8 lines of fruit trees ( plums , and hybrids ), and each line has 30 trees.
More what I call the "litle orchard " (I’ll take some photographs tomorrow), which I use as an experimentation field, to test varieties, since experience has made me understand that all that glitters is not gold, and now I only put in the orchard high quality varieties.
With this number of varieties, unless it has spring frosts or prolonged rains during the flowering period, I usually have a very large fruit set, often excessive.
He has been in the orchard looking at the Metis varieties ( interspecific from Bradford Genetics ) , and only the Oxy Solar variety is mature
This variety:
https://www.metis-fruits.com/en/families/oxy-solar.html
Some photographs of this variety.
It’s not that I don’t know how to prune fruit trees.
This is a Metis Oxy Solar, grafted using the crown system, on a poor quality adult plum tree, and it is still in the formation period.
When I harvest it, I will do a powerful pruning in a vegetative state.
This variety is very sweet, it has a very good size, but it lacks that spicy " tart flavor " that we like from the good varieties of Zaiger pluots.
I will post more photos later.
Regards
Jose
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Hi phil.
Congratulations, for that good harvest of FS.
Follow the advice provided by fruitnut, that is, do not harvest this variety prematurely, because even if you eat a fruit , and and it is sweet with a very pleasant flavor, it will not have reached its maximum expression of flavor.
That typical flavor is achieved by letting the fruit ripen quietly on the tree.
In case it can serve as a guide, I wait for two or three fully ripened fruits to fall from the tree, the rest of the fruits will remain in the tree with a firm texture , but they will have reached that intense flavor characteristic of this variety and others such as Flavor King, Flavor Treat or Flavor Finale.
In my case, since I have two FS trees, I harvested a tree a little earlier, so as not to gather the fruit from the two trees at the same time.
This is my second FS tree , waiting for its optimal ripening point .
Well, again my most sincere congratulations, for being able to enjoy this exquisite variety.
Regards
Jose
