Does anyone have experience with Pamela plum? I ordered it from Fedco for next spring but was not able to find much about it. Per the Fedco description:
"Prunus spp. Late Summer. Prunus americana seedling, Westmanland, Maine. Fedco intro, 2015.
High-quality sweet-fleshed totally freestone medium-small fruit. Reddish skin with yellowish undertones. Productive and extremely hardy. Flowers with a pinkish tone.
An excellent pollinator for hybrid and American plums. Many years ago, longtime Fedco growers Steve and Barb Miller purchased a hybrid plum from another nursery. The grafted plum never did well but the rootstock sprouted from below the graft and eventually fruited. It was so good, they began to graft it around the farm.
When Steve first told us about the plum, he just called it Pam (from P. americana). We decided to dignify it a bit. Z3. Maine Grown. (3ā6ā bare-root trees)"
I called Fedco for additional information but wasnāt able to learn much from the representative. I specifically asked about bloom time but wasnāt able to get a good answer (per the call, its bloom will likely overlap with Toka).
I saw it was also recently listed on the website for Humble Abode A Permaculture Nursery. I have no experience with this nursery but found it while searching the plum online. This nursery states āa selection of American plum (not a hybrid) that produces exceptional fruit!ā
Links below:
Pamela Hybrid Plum - Fedco Trees
Plums - Humble Abode
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I saw it tooā¦ while i was buying Lavina.
An american seedling doesnt really interest me even though i have someā¦ @ztom and @Cgardener i think are the only ones on here growing it and ztom said its tastyā¦
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@krismoriah Thank you for the thoughts. I hope my plant will survive and I can provide additional information in the future. I got it, in part, because it is an American seedling because I hope to cross it with other plums. I also ordered Lavina which has a lot of discussion on the forum and seems really promising.
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I see this happen often when nurseries introduce their own selections without much info. The lack of depth to published info from the original source seems to have the ripple effect of that plant not getting widely picked up by other nurseries and ultimately doesnāt get enough audience to get trialed and written about by garden enthusiasts. For all we know āPamelaā could be a āmust haveā plum, but is suffering only from lack of marketing enthusiasmā¦ 
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It looks like a ācherry plumā to meā¦
This is the only Americanized one im growing supposedly the fruit looks like thisā¦ with no bitterness in the skin.
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Speaking as someone who has tried to bring notoriety to Chickasaw plum cultivars, itās a worthy task when you find a good one. Iām kind of surprised that you got as good of a description as you did from the originating nursery. As for bloom time, it will take multiple people growing it in different locations and under different conditions to nail that down. The best thing to do is to record bloom time with it growing alongside well-known varieties. If multiple people in multiple locations do that, future growers will have a better chance of guessing what it will bloom with. The nursery said that itās a good pollinizer of other plums. That may be true if its wild type. But I would be a bit surprised if thatās been tested particularly well.
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I also have this one coming from Fedco. My hope is that it is later bloom like my seedling american plums.
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How is your Pamela tree doing? So far mine has put on good growth. I noticed that the leaves look pretty large to me (compared to toka and lavina which I also planted this year).
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