Your Cox Orange should do fine. I grew one 30 miles NE of Raleigh NC. I don’t own the property anymore, but it appears to be still alive. It was planted in 2002.
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Hi Kris,
I have followed your thread on blackberries for several years. We’d like to follow your lead on plums.
Could you or someone else recommend 3-5 fresh-eating favorites— maybe a Japanese (we tried Satsuma once and loved them) a pluot, pluerry, or peach-plum? Thank you! Thank you for your research and experimenting.
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I am trying just about all of them as well as the Euros and hybrids…
I am doing this for trial and error… as the reviews on them vary from state to state or even yard to yard.
@alan and @mamuang i think live in similar zone to you and have excellent discussions on various plums in this forum.
Ruby Queen is a good start.. since you like Satsuma.
Others will chime in but probably not worth it on a 3-5 choice to look at pluots, pluerries.. as they are mostly just good selections of Japanese plums that probably do much better in a better climate than the East Coast.
If you have brutal summers and think that is the new trend for your area it might be wise to try the AU or Okie selections as well as a couple of old favorites like Spring Satin.
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Don’t forget Spring Satin aprium. Can be a shy bearer but it appears immune to black knot and is pretty vigorous so should be the ideal mother tree. No other delicious J. plum I’ve tried shows this immunity or bears fruit so early in the season. Another one similarly resistant is something I got from Cummins that they never sold through their nursery but came from Cornell’s breeding program. Its fruit are big and beautiful with dark purple flesh and skin… sadly not enough sugar to be good to my palate. That’s likely why it was never released under patent.
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I always thought Spring Satin was a plumcot, not an aprium. It didn’t work out for me.
Same thing, but the Zaiger family copyrighted plumcot. Spring Satin was produced by the government breeding work being done in GA.
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trademarked* 
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actually i thought it was relevant which came first in the name. so aprium would have an apricot “mother” and the non trademarked version of plumcot is pluot
edit: aparently wrong, PLUOT is the trademarked one. so is aprium. plumcot is the nontrademarked version
Trademark search though its registration is dead. so i guess its not a registered trademark anymore, but probably still has common right protections, idk.
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Yes, you may be right on that. Spring Satin was named aprium before the patent on pluot ever existed. That was just my flesh AI platform jumping to erroneous conclusions. I also managed to read plumcot as pluot. Brains tend to see what they expect, I’m told.
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The release publication for spring satin definitely refers to it as a plumcot, you are correct that pluot is the trademarked name
But I’ve never seen SS called a pluot
Right, because that is trademarked by Zaiger
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If only there were a lawyer to take TyTy to the limit just one time…
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Id do it. Zaiger dm me 
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Thank you! Not sure I’m following this part…what are AU or Okie Selections?
I’ll look into Spring Satin and Ruby Queen.
Also tried to figure out Asian pears. Some are great and others just awful.
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AU Producer, AU Rubrum etc.. there are several of them.
WR Okie (breeder)- Ruby Queen, Rubysweet, Spring Satin, Black Ruby etc.
Take a look at Drippin Honey
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Those people are crooks
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You are in Utah, that’s great news for growing fruit. Your climate is dry so issues with plum diseases are likely to be low to very low.
I used to have several varieties of European and Japanese plums but have cut down a lot due to black knot. My favorites are Elephant Heart, Lavina, Laroda and Inca. I like European plums, too. Empress, Coe’s Golden Drop, several Gages plums. They take long to fruit, though.
I tagged @Ahmad as he grows all kind of plums, pluots and other stone fruit. He probably could give you good advice on what to grow.
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Here are my recommendations:
Excellent/Amazing: Flavor King, Flavor Supreme (not productive in many areas), Flavor Punch pluerry, Candy Heart Pluerry, Bavay Green Gage (and sisters: RC Doree, Old Green Gage, Cambridge Gage; Cambridge and Bavay are more productive. I only tasted Bavay).
Very Good: GeoPride, Flavor Grenade, Vision, Golden Transparent Gage (low acid), Coe’s Golden Drop (low acid)
Emerald Drop has very good reviews, but I never tried it. Same for Emerald Beaut.
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Thank you! There is very little overlap on everyone’s favorite plum/pluot/pluerry. How to choose?! I’ll see what I can source locally, but if you already know a good source to purchase from let me know. Sounds like TyTy is not it.