Pacific Northwest Fruit & Nut Growers

[Oregon_Fruit_Grow]

@Bradybb

There is usually so much fruit that set on my Flavor Grenade,that I wonder if it’s self fertile.But,like murky’s,not a vigorous grower.

What I have read is FG is vigorous and Flavor King is a weak grower.

@Ciderlady

Well I guess we aren’t too far north of CA, but Santa Rosa fruits well here in southern Oregon.

are you in the rouge river valley?

@DennisD

I think the best way to assure pollination of most Asians and their hybrids is to keep a calendar of the blossom schedule of what you have and add to each tree a pollen compatible variety such as Beauty or Methley which both have fairly long blossom periods. The variety you are depending on to cross pollinate pluots must be producing pollen during the first week the pluot flowers are fully open. Depending upon what a nursery tells you is not as reliable as your own observations! Since varieties generally keep a relative schedule in a given geographic area, the advice of your neighbors is more reliable, than any nursery.

That’s what is said in a UC book. Any self-fruitful J.Plum with overlapping bloom times should pollinate other plums.