It should be, you can even freeze pollen if it is dry.
Here sweet cherry bloom times and Asian plum bloom times can cross. Everything can bloom at once when spring is late to arrive here. I’m going to start a log to keep track of bloom times here for my own needs.
Right, if one wants cherries that will bloom with Nadia you’ll need the very low chill types like Minnie Royal and Royal Lee. High chill sweet cherries bloom weeks later than most other stone fruit.
I’ll be amazed if this thing tastes better than a turd.
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Lol
Fruitnut, have you been standing under the ‘Goat’ tree? LOL
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I’m hoping Nadia isn’t the goat tree!!
But on a more serious note we are lucky to have something like this to play with, assuming it’s at least decent, and it probably will be that. I think most breeders would have saved this for commercial production and asked for royalties. I guess that’s my big concern, if it’s so great why is it so readily available?
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Yes, very true. There are even earlier blooming cherries in the “Royal” line up, if you can grow them, that might have even better bloom timing for Nadia, if you’re interested. Too high chill for me (but still probably not really considered “high chill”), such as Tioga, Hazel, Tenaya) and Rose Rainier. Good luck getting one, though. Have never seen any of these cultivars available on the retail market.
Patty S.
And reasonably priced. I think I’m one of the only people that doesn’t have one. I want to wait for reactions to taste.
I’m looking forward to the party at Scott’s house! I’ll bring my pruners!
I would not call this tree readily available only Raintree sells it. Although I do get the point of the industry hiding it from home growers. I think that is a mistake, but they can market however they want.Maybe the Aussie owner is a backyard grower too?
To me this fruit is already worth it from a nutrition standpoint. Eating super fruits even if bland is a very good thing.
There are about a dozen. Brady
Nadia has been out for a few years in Australia/NZ. Someone could easily contact someone growing them and get their impressions.
More of what sounds like marketing on Nadia:
[quote]BACKGROUND INFORMATION ON NADIA
The number of stone fruit varieties available at fresh markets has
been increasing as the demands of the horticultural industry and
consumer preferences change. Important traits such as improved
production yield, longer shelf life and more consistent fruit quality
are highly sought after. This cherry plum hybrid was developed in
Australia to meet these demands by naturally crossing cherries with
plums and then selecting and growing lines with desirable
characteristics. Nadia is not genetically modified.
Nadia exhibits the sensory and sight characteristics of the cherry,
but has the size and supply chain robustness of the plum. According to
Birchmore, “It tastes like a cherry. Nadia is effectively an oversized
cherry and with more flesh compared to its pip size than a standard
cherry. Its slightly thicker skin means it’s less prone to splitting
during heavy rain and it also lasts longer in transit and on the shelf
“.
Customers are also becoming more discerning and are selecting
products with beneficial health properties. Much has been said recently
about the Queen Garnet plum and its link to anti-obesity, but this is
true of all fruits of the colour purple, that are naturally high in
anthocyanin, which potentially offer this reported benefit. The same
claims can therefore be equally said of Nadia; in that its juice
similarly contains beneficial compounds with antioxidant,
anti-inflammatory and anti-obesity attributes.[/quote]
It’s really interesting Nadia is Australian variety but not available to home growers there. Every now and then I visit Australian forum http://www.daleysfruit.com.au/forum/ but there is not a single mention of it. It’s available only commercially with one exception - USA. You are very lucky it’s available in your country, Raintree either paid a lot of money or they are good friends with the breeders 
I was able to find some info on another interesting AU variety, Queen Garnet plum on Daleys but nothing on Nadia, really strange. If someone is interested, link to Queen Garnet is here:
http://www.daleysfruit.com.au/forum/queen-garnet-plum/
Daleys comment to it in the thread is:
"Daleys Fruit Tree Nursery says…
At Daleys we did try really hard to get the go ahead to use their propagation materials for the Queen Garnet plum tree. We do believe that the home backyard is not in competition with the large orchards that grow them. If anything a handful of people growing them in their backyards would mean that we as Australians have a connection both to the fruit and the trees that were developed here. This would work in everyones favour and be a very positive outcome. We did suggest we could limit them to 1 per person or address so that it isn’t possible for someone to grow them commercially.
However currently the plum trees are only to be used by registered growers.
You can of course grow them from seed however a seedling selection will have different health properties, Chill requirements, fruit size, cropping habit and much more. To be technical you couldn’t call this a Queen Garnet plum as it is totally different variety or it’s own genetically unique plum tree."
So will it turn out looking more like peach with every seed time after time, or is there a variance on the way it will turn out. So if you grew 250 pits out would they all be the same or would there be different ones too? Wouldn’t it be fun to have all the time and land to play with the genetics of fruit.
No, the DNA recombination possibilities is in the tens of thousands. It’s why we clone for the most part. I hope to get some good crosses too, I have all kinds of ideas
that makes the two of us. But it is definitely on my radar, which is contingent to the feedback i get here.
kind of ‘user-friendly’ am i not? 
Yepper! 
If you have fruits that bloom different times, why couldn’t you take a few branch cuttings and force them to bloom inside. I have cuttings in a vase right now all in bloom from some pruning i did a couple weeks ago (apricots/plums). Timing is an issue here because you need to know how long it takes to get a pruned branch to bloom indoor and you’d have to know when the other tree is going to bloom. Just a thought.
i have the same sentiments, and was holding back mentioning it as didn’t want to be the bearer of bad news.
it is strange indeed. Ancient aussie creations like granny smith are still talked about in the forum, but nadia seems queerly unheard of…
but then again, who knows? maybe taste is regional too? The fruit-farming aussie threads seem to inquire about american-bred jujubes quite endlessly than their homegrown creation…
Juju and Mrs.G.,
I’m one of you, too. All I can say is if this Nadia performs anywhere like Nadia Comaneci in 1976 Summer Olympics, it’s a 10. For those who don’t know the other Nadia, you are way too young 
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From the thesis posted above, Nadia is grown mainly in Victoria, Australia, I checked climate in Victoria out of curiosity. It varies quite a bit so it’s hard to say which US climate would be best fit for Nadia. I’ll check with my Aussie friend if he has ever heard of this cherry plum
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yeah, but do you know Olga?