no, beauty is terrible texture and shiro fair.
Splash is similar to an underripe italian prune as Splash reaches ripeness, but it will gradually get softer and juicier, eventually when way overripe it will be to juicy and too soft, but long after its reached high brix and great flavor unlike those Japanese plums you list.
Italian prune goes from firm to mealy rather than bag of juice. Splash is cling stone.
That is a fantastic crop for having been grown in the PNW. I sure wish they sold Splash up here in BC.
Nice work @Vincent_8B.
Wow @Vincent_8B !! Very prolific !! Very happy to see that. @tbg9b i might be visiting Vincent this winter, let me know what you need from him.
Once again, you have a great touch with stone fruit. Nice!
Here’s mine from Yesterday. BTW, I picked a Geopride that was firm but split and colored. It was good. I didn’t realize it is so early, in the past I’d only had them way overripe. I liked it better than the Emerald Drop I’ve had so far, but I don’t think I’ve had a ripe one of those yet. This year I have plenty that I should be able to try them at different stages.:
Another nice thing about Splash is that it seems split resistant. Maybe the heavy setting helps with that. Geopride, Emerald Drop, and Flavor Grenade all have some splits on the same tree but I haven’t noticed any on Splash. We’re getting some rain today and tomorrow. I’ve tried to keep the tree a bit dry hoping for better sugar and flavor but that probably isn’t good for tolerating rain and not splitting.
This year I’ve done a better job of getting the fruit mostly above deer browse but mostly within hand reach.
I agree, Sweet Treat is excellent!
I picked some under ripe today(8.1st.24) because squirrels started to steal the fruits every day. Fortunately Sweet Treat we can enjoyable early stage of ripening. So crisp juicy and deep sweet and tart complex flavor fruit.
They are good at this stage or can be left on the counter for additional ripening.
Very nice Tree, Jafar!
My grafts of your scions were very successful this spring, so I look forward to testing these! This year the squirrels took my few Sweet Treats which is one of my best, got scions from Vincent three years ago. But my Obilnaya which is also very good did well and escaped a squirrel attack somehow! I have one unknown native that is exceptionally good maybe family fav so far, so I will be grafting it this summer now that it has mature green wood buds.
Native Red
Obilnaya: Very comparable to Flavor King in taste and appearance
Hi Dennis
This is the plum you grafted onto my Nadia. Forgot the name. (Adara plum)
It ripped now, mild sweet and powder texture. It’s good pollinator for my orchard fruit trees. Thank you so much.
I have about 7 fruit, they are maybe as colored as your least ripe ones. I’m looking forward to it.
I’m just picked about 30 lbs of Nadia this morning. I estimate the tree had around 150 lbs or so of ripe fruit.
I really like the look of the flesh in your picture. BTW, the AU Producer are dark and soft now. I prefer them a little less ripe. So their window for ripeness is smaller than many of my favorites. I’ll probably process the rest this weekend if I get to it.
That’s really good. At least you have sweet treat tasters for this year. I plan to send some to you if you don’t have any. Remember to taste underripe stage also. @murky
My bare root sweet treat last year has 10 fruits for now. Pictures below.
Unfortunately I have to trim half of my 7 years old sweet treat tree down, all the leafy parts very soon. Maybe just keep the trunk because of leaf diseases. So that tree may not have any fruit for a couple years. (The tree in last picture will be big trimmed all branches)
This looks like Adara fruit to me.
Hi Vincent,
It’s called Adara. Cherry plum! As I recall we placed it pretty high on your Nadia as a pollinator. I think they probably do help cross pollination. I have a lot of these fruits this year where I used it as an interstem to top work my sweet cherry tree. Between Methley, Adara, and Beauty this tree gets a lot of cross pollination. Glad to hear it helps yours!
Dennis
Adara seems fast growing and disease resistant plum with shiny beautiful small leaves.
Vincent do you have any samples for me? : ) I have some ripe mulberries i can trade you.
