It is plum-like. The one crop I got was of high quality. It came to my surprise. You would think it is more popular with such nice fruit. It is still early for a final evaluation. Maybe the tree is difficult to crop. I was disappointed to see not a single fruit this year. The temperatures where challenging in spring but not terrible. Other stonefruit managed to set decently, Aprikyra not so.
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Yes.
I am curious about this Nadia / Candy Heart offspring. If I understand it correctly is there less IP issues with offpring since it is specific clones that are protected.
Also, since I can not find any pluerries here in Europe, I think seeds from a pluerry x pluerry cross would be interesting. (seeds less of a logistics and hygiene issue too)
BTW. Everywhere I read about pluerries they suggest plum or pluerry as pollinator. Would pluerry also pollinate cherry and/or be pollinated by cherry?
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I’m not sure what IP is,but if it has to do with patents,the seeds are not covered,to my knowledge.The resulting plants though,can’t be sold,with the same names as the original.
I took a tour of Zaigers and their process is fairly simple and straightforward.Planting seeds in trays and trying them out,once they produce fruit.
Right now,the opinion probably is that Cherry pollen will only work with it’s kind,but that doesn’t mean people can’t try.
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Correct, the patents are concerned with asexual propagation.
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That’s a beautiful tree.
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IP means intellectual property, patents are a form of IP, trade secrets is another form.
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This is 4 years late, but I’m planning to graft Nadia to the neighbors curly peach trees, unless I hear that its a bad idea. That’s how I landed here, looking to see if people know how it does.
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I picked my 2nd gallon today out of about 3 that the tree bore this year.
They are juicy and soft with a sweet tart balance, a little more acid than sugar, haven’t measured brix but I’d guess 15 or 16. Will be interesting to check that.
I’ve noticed this year that the texture is very distinctively more cherry than plum. That hadn’t been as obvious to me in past years. Maybe the skin has more plum tartness, and it is cling stone.
tested one: 15 brix
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Wow! This is from growing in a pot? Can I ask how you fertilize them?
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I use bone meal fertilizers and miracle gro water soluble all purpose plant food.
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Last year, I open-pollinated my Nanking cherry bush with various sources of pollen: peach, apricot, myrobalan plum, and myrobalan x Japanese hybrid. The pollination was a success and it produced a nice crop. Thus I tried to germinate the seeds by natural and artificial cold stratification, however, both methods failed. I believe it was probably due to hybridization incompatibility.
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I probably try seedling Nadia open pollinated this year.
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I’ve picked 12 or 13 gallons of ripe fruit so far this year. I weighed a gallon at about 9lbs. It probably produced over 150 lbs of “salable” fruit and continues to be one of the easiest trees to manage. I opened up the center and let it et pretty tall, maybe 12 feet. I didn’t think it had set heavily, but I was wrong. I don’t think it drops fruit like plums. The branches arched and drooped nearly to the ground, so I was able to do all of the picking from the ground with my hands.
No broken branches! Almost no splits even though we had a couple of days with thunderstorm amidst otherwise drought and intentionally limited irrigation.
I really like this picture:
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My “Nadia” are large plums with dark blue/purple color. They have not ripened yet.
Glad to see the color of the flesh. I hope my is a correct variety.
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If it ends up being a mislabel “Nada-ia” is too perfect a name not to use
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Hi Jafar,
That’s a huge increase in production from 3 gal in 2022 to this years 13 gal. How old is your tree? They do look like very nice fruit so glad to hear you like it. Congrats and good report.
Dennis
Kent, wa
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Very nice! Do they taste more like a plum?
What size is the container? Asking because I am space challenged
Yes, they taste like a plum most years. At least one year it had distinct cherry flavor. I don’t detect any this year.