I love the taste of Pluots! However, they are hard to grow in the SE due to early bloom times and late frosts.
QUESTION: What is the latest blooming Pluot variety?
I saw one source that said Flavor Grenade bloomed relatively late but another source contradicted this by saying it bloomed early.
Thanks for your help. I am in zone 7a.
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Frank,
This might help. I’m in zone 8 a. This year I recorded this data from my trees.
code FB = full blossom, BAL = Balloon, PF = petal fall
On 4/6/23:
Methley: FB
Beauty: BAL
Sweat treat: FB
Oblinaya: FB
Flavor king: BAL to FB
Satsuma: BAL to FB
Adara: FB
Luisa: BAL to FB
L3 : BAL to FB
Kuban comet: BAL to FB
L4: FB
Black Splender: BAL
Ozark premiere: FB
Dapple Dandy: FB
Nadia: FB
Opal: FB
Friar: BAL
Geneva Mirabelle: BAL
Shiro: FB
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My Flavor Grenade has close to 100 blooms on it.
Maybe I won’t need to thin as much next year.
Did your Flavor Grenade bloom relatively early, late or mid-season for a pluot?
I have no reference. My FG bloomed from Feb 27th till Marxh 10th.
Only one forum member within hundreds of miles of me.
I’m only 20 miles from the Gulf of Mexico as the crow flies. Our last freeze this spring was Feb 20th.
I mean relative to other plums and pluots.
For me i only have Sweet Treat Pluerry, Santa Rosa, an unknown plumcot to compare to.
The FG started blooming about a week earlier than the santa rosa…but the bloom period lasted longer.
You might have seen me post elsewhere, but my FG has been blooming for the past 3 weeks! Im afraid I won’t have any flower buds left for next spring.
Speaking only about Pluots,
There may be a few small differences every year for a few days, but in general latest group is in this order:
Flavor King
Flavor Grenade
Flavor Finale
Flavor Fusion
End of February till beginning March, depending of year weather and climatic zone move a bit earlier or latter
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