Number Two:
Ok. Enough with the pictures, I have to go to work. I’ll visit this page during my breaks and lunch.
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“Nadia number one. Nadia number two. One. Two.” Reading that made me feel like I was having an eye exam. 
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Friends don’t let Friends Surf the Net while Drunk! Do you see one or two?
I think this may be a trick question!
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Nadia could be the biggest bust ever. I hope not. Looks like we’ll be well over 500 posts by the time someone starts a “How Nadia tastes” post.
Guess I should start by hoping someone can set more fruit than the two I’ve found so far!! Two isn’t enough for a good evaluation.
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I think enough of us have it here on this forum that that we could have a group consensus of a few fruits but regional differences could effect the taste. If mine is to be pollinated this year then Spring Satin plumcot is going to have to pollinate it at 8’ away, both are on the west side of my house. My Burgundy plum is on the south side of my house with Sweet Treat, Toka and Black Ice about 70’ away. Flavor Grenade and Flavor Heart pluots are on order and also will be planted near Nadia on the west side this spring.
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Fruitnut,
I was about to say that I have never seen so many people rave about something no one here ever tasted before like this.
It is baffling me how everyone (or almost everyone) goes crazy about it just from its description. Hope it lives up to everyone expectation.
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The wait to find out is what makes it more interesting to read and talk about. It’s what makes football so great. They play on sunday and you have to wait a week to see what happens next. You can’t wait for them to play again and all you can do is talk about them all week. The biggest thing with Nadia is it looks like a big cherry and we all want that! No one has tasted it and we have to wait a year or more so all we can do is talk about it. Anticipation!
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I’d think it is more like pre football when every fan thinks his/her team has a chance to win Super Bowl. Then a season starts 
I hear you about anticipation. I have read GW and GF for many years. Just never seen anything like Nadia’s sensation.
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Well, I think the big excitement around this fruit, is mostly due to how it looks - like a giant cherry. That, I think, is very enticing. Wouldn’t we all like to have a really good cherry the size of a plum? Who could say no to that!
Patty S.
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Yes for me the looks of the fruit was a big draw. Also that East Malling institute wants to put it in it’s breeding programs. That was a good sign it’s a worthy fruit. Plus this got here fast from Australia, not like we have a ton of Aussie trees around here! This is extremely unusual, and I can’t imagine the effort it took to build a world wide distribution is over something that sucks. No this fruit has had green lights at every intersection. I have read reports too that it does taste like cherry, and plum too, a mix of both is what I have read on taste. The article said it is better than the pluerry that doesn’t really taste like a cherry.Well they were diplomatic and just said other sweet cherry x plum crosses were disappointing with little to no cherry flavor, and Nadia does have cherry flavor. Here’s The article, posted by the weatherman on Garden Web. The very first post about this fruit. Plums don’t fruit well in 2nd leaf, that certainly is not unusual, it’s too early to judge performance just yet.
Black Amber seems like a lost cultivar here. A California cultivar btw.
I have not heard of any of us growing it? Grandpa’s sells it, the description
“The Black Amber plum is a high quality fruit with a rapid growing, heavy bearing tree. It has round, firm dark
purple fruit that closely resembles a Friar plum. It ripens with Santa
Rosa and is a good companion for that variety.”
A description from Boyer Nursery
"This plum has a purplish-black skin and is ovate in shape.
Very similar to Friar plum. Flesh is amber colored and sweet when fully _
ripe. Tree is vigorous and spreading. Ripens late August."
Sounds like a fairly decent plum, fast growing, heavy bearer, sounds pretty good so far. It was introduced in CA in 1980.
OK the Supreme Cherry. hard to find any info being an Australian cultivar.
I found info here
“Supreme
A seedling of unknown parentage selected by Mr C
Sackett at Young. The fruit is large and red–black.
Fruit size and shape tend to resemble that of the
Rons Seedling variety. The flavour of the Supreme
cherry is excellent, particularly for such an early
maturing variety. Flesh firmness is good but this
variety is known for splitting after the smallest
amount of wet weather. The mortality rate of trees
is also high during dry spells”
I found this too
Supreme cherries are a large heart‐shaped variety with
dark‐red to black skin and deep red flesh. They are one of the easier
cherries to pit, making them a popular choice for jam and they have a
rich, sweet flavour. Supreme cherries are available early in the season.
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I agree.
I have five fruit trees (all of them less than one year old), and none of them have produced any fruit yet. I am fine waiting to see how it turns out. That is part of the fun
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A couple of other things i have found out from reading…it doesn’t crack like sweet cherries and it is highly resistant to brown rot. Those are huge for my area…make sweet cherries hard to grow here.
I’m excited about this…even if it isn’t a slam dunk, its still looks to be a very cool fruit to grow…should be an interesting one to share with others…especially if it does have some sweet cherry flavor.
I agree it’s all about potential for this fruit. Sweet cherries have a taste all to their own and through all of the complex research and time spent on interspecific fruits this is the first time we’ve heard of a variety that actually has cherry flavor. People had high hopes for Pluerries and in the end no one thinks they taste like cherries. I keep reading they have a unique taste but most reports say they are okay or rather ho-hum but aren’t knocking anyone’s socks off. At least for Sweet Treat. Haven’t heard much about Candy Heart yet. One thing for certain is that Nadia certainly looks a lot more like a sweet cherry than the Pluerries do.
black amber is a big plum of July, large, black skin and amber flesh is like eldorado, but with better taste
I came across this in my quest for Nadia info.
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Well that’s just everything I want hear about this fruit. Almost seems to good to be true!
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those stats are outright extraordinary, especially the brown rot resistance, fruit yield, and brix. If even just 50% of the stats are true, it will still be peerless, i think…
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Looks too good to be true. I’ll believe it when I see it, or at least some reports from folks here. I will not get any Nadias until next year, mine died mid-year last year.
I would like to hear reports of Nadia from the east coast Nadia owners.