Given there are a number of different mirabelles out there, does this photo provide any clues which mirabelle this could be and/or could not be?
-Fruiting for the first time here in PNW area(Vancouver, Canada). Definitely has a distinctive shape vs 3 green gages i have.
-scion grafted 2021 from Denman island but source could not provide any specifics on the mirabelle
-pollination/bloom indicated on pic
I don’t think it looks like mirabelles Parfume de Septembre or mirabelle de Nancy (I have them). The look in your pic reminds me of a gage plum.
@scottfsmith has a lot of Euro plums. Hopefully, he can help you identify your tree.
All the mirabelles I have seen are round, even when they are small. Plums of that shape are usually prune plums, like Italian Prune, French Prune, etc.
I’ll have to look again, but I vaguely recall today noticing my small forming mirabelles didn’t yet look round. Maybe I’m mixing it up with a picture I saw of something else.
Hey Tubig.
Sounds like you’ve been acquiring almost exactly the same plums from the same sources as myself. I picked up a mirrabelle tree from Denman last fall. It is not fruiting yet as I cut it back drastically to turn it into an espallier. When I topped the mirabelle tree I grafted a scion from it onto a yellow egg plum, (I also cut down for espalliering). That mirrabelle graft is now growing very well, but I guess I’ll have to wait until next summer to find out what my version of mirabelle looks like. Hoping it’s a real mirabelle as they are very hard to source in Canada, as you know only too well.
@scottfsmith
My mirabelles are not round when they are young. They are round once mature.
Pics taken today
Parfume de Septembre.
Coe’s Golden Drop,
French Improved
Beautiful Mam!
@mamuang i take it you do not have other mirabelles? Mine appears to have more of a narrow “collar” near the stem end and looks more like a “drop” of liquid than your parfum de September. My source of scion for this didn’t have any french improved plus mine are more “rounded and fatter” which leads me to think it’s not french improved either. Maybe I should just wait but I’m just too excited. 
I guess those I was thinking of those as round, at least relative to the plum in the initial picture. In any case it will be very clear in a few months what type of plum it is.
From bloom to harvest, how many days do mirabelles take? (Just so i know when i should go all out on protecting the handful on this graft.)
Mirabelle de Metz. Oval. I had three mirabelles. My mirabelle de Metz was never as round as my mirabelle de Nancy.
More photos of mirabelle…
It seems to have a slightly more “stretched” or elongated collar than mamuang’s parfum September:
@mamuang what are the indicators for optimal ripeness for mirabelle? I prefer rich flavor but not fermenting.
They turn from green to mellow yellow. Some may have red blush or red speckle on their skin
When they ripe, they fall into your hand as you touch them. When I pick my mirabelles, I shake a branch lightly, most ripe ones will fall. Save me time. Don’t shake hard, green ones could fall, too.
Those look great. Don’t you usually get bad cracking? By the way, this is a glimpse a year into the future.
Yes, bad cracking when rain shows up during ripening time like this year and 2021.
So far, I picked 25 lbs of mirabelles, 12 lbs were good, the rest cracked at varying degrees.
@mamuang I only got one single mirabelle and this is what it looked like (left yellow next to a green gage)…probably less than an inch tall. It still had a little collar at the stem end. It appears “deflated” somewhat in shape…probably under-watered? Upon popping into my mouth, it “smelled/tasted” like a very familiar lovely expensive flowery perfume with perfect sweetness and great delicate flavor. The perfume smell was very familiar but I just couldn’t put my finger on where I smelled it before. The only room for improvement was the quantity and size. Definitely a keeper and hope to get a bigger crop next time!
Does it sound like a mirabelle strain?
