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How do you like them? Any benefit over plums?
theyre on my list, so following. I plan to grow them if actual cherries dont work out lol
I really like Sweet Treat - prolific, it hangs a long time so lots of harvest, bigger than a cherry but smaller than a plum but you can still eat it in two bites, high sugar fruit punch flavor but not much acid, skin isn’t tart…but no cherry tones for me after multiple seasons.
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yeah i plan on looking at the red fleshed one
Wow, 42 posts on pluerries! That’s more than I expected.
I finally decided to try them out this coming year to see what all the hubbub is. I was never a big fan of the various plum hybrids I tried, so I largely ignored these. The only hybrid I still have is Flavor King pluot.
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They bloom super early like Asian plums. I have all 3. Sweet treat is by far the best and most reliable. It’s loaded up every year. I concur, very little cherry flavor but a yummy tropical flavor is what I would say. Like stated above, fruit punch.
Candy heart has not set as heavy and I usually get just a dozen or so. It’s watery in comparason to sweet treat and not as good a flavor by my and my plum loving son’s tastes.
Sugar twist, despite 4 years in my collection and blooming profusely with its sister hybrids, has yet to provide me with a single fruit to taste.
Nadia is probably a better plum than candy heart or sugar twist. Sets heavy like sweet treat and taste better than candy heart. One of my sons likes Nadia better, and the other likes sweet treat. I like them both a lot and consider them keepers over the other 2 ( sugar twist and candy heart)
Nadia I believe is marketed as a cherry flavored plum cross that is not a hybrid. I still don’t get the cherry taste on Nadia, but it is awfully yummy. But is more similar to these hybrids in taste than other Asian plums I would say.
Also, candy heart, sweet treat, sugar twist, and Nadia all bloom at the same time in Seattle anyway. A whole week before any of my other Asian plums bloom. That’s another reason for my Nadia tangent from the original topic.
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nadia is also a prunus salicina x avium hybrid. its just that the term “pluerry” is trademarked. so other ones call them “cherry plums” which is confusing because the cherry plum is also the common name of Prunus cerasifera / myrobalan plum.
Its like how only some people can call plum apricots pluots, and some have to say plumcot.
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Yes, you are correct. I crossed the Nadia and Prunus cerasifera / myrobalan plum in my mind. Thanks for catching that. I learned of it as puente plum.
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I ordered some candy heart and sweet treat scion wood to graft, but I also ordered a Nadia tree from Gurneys a little while back for spring shipping. If you watch their website, theyll have deals where its like free shipping on orders over $49 or something like that.
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I have a bare root (Sweet Treat) on order. I want to try grafting some low chill cherries on it and see if the cherries fare better this year on intermediary stock. So far only one surviving cherry out of three and it looks a bit sketchy.
Reviews say Sweet Treat tastes more plum than cherry.
To my knowledge, these are not self-pollinating, in case this isn’t common knowledge. I have Santa Rosa plum already, which will pollinate Sweet Treat.
In my location I find these as good cross pollinators for Sweet Treat
Plum blossom data for Spring 2025 by variety:
Blossom data: BAL- ballon stage, Tran- First blossom opens, BO - all blossom open, PF - Petal Fall
Variety. BAL. TRAN. FB. PF
Kuban Cometa 3/20. 3/23. 3/25. 4/3
Waneta 3/18. 3/25. 4/5. 4/12
Beauty plum: 3/15. 3/18. 3/25. 4/5
Obilnaya: 3/15. 3/18. 3/25. 4/5
AU Cherry plum: 3/12. 3/18. 3/25. 4/5
Flavor Supreme: 3/5. 3/18. 3/25. 4/5
Camp Joy Sauna: 3/5. 3/18. 3/25. 4/6
Sweet Treat: 3/18. 3/23. 3/25. 4/5
Apricot Plum: 3/20. 3/23. 3/25. 4/5
Burgandy plum: 3/18. 3/20. 3/25. 4/10
Luisa: 3/15. 3/18. 3/25. 4/5
Lavina: 3/18. 3/20. 3/25. 4/5
Dennis
Kent, Wa
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I’d like some explanation attached to this. I wonder if your exploration wasn’t cut short too early, or if your weather difference from mine, or different taste preferences are responsible for your decision.
My first attempts at my site to grow pluots were disappointing but in recent seasons a couple varieties have become an essential part of my harvest season. Spring Satin and Flavor Rich bookmark my J. plum season- extending it on both sides as far as really sweet and flavorful plums. But then you also rejected Rubyqueen, which I consider to be my most valuable J. plum of all. Then there is your dismissal of Sugar Pearls apricot.
Palate or location seem the most probable differences. However, I’ve never given anyone a ripe pluot of any variety that they didn’t love and favor over most J. plum varieties I grow. People tend to love high brix and pluots generally produce more sugar than J. plums.
Here’s the recap..
Spring Satin gets mushy on the tops before the bottoms get ripe. This is a problem with several fruits in my climate. Nadia also has this problem, as does Gold Dust peach and Afghanistan apricot. I think it’s climate related.
I never grew Flavor Rich.
Ruby Queen also had problems with uneven ripening, it also was not as good as other plums in its season. Some fruits were great though. It’s similar to Spring Satin, some fruits there were also great. If I was getting the best-quality fruits all the time they would both be great fruits for me.
I didn’t grow Sugar Pearls very long so maybe I just had some unlucky years with it. I should have kept it a few more years.
Flavor Supreme was always totally fantastic but produced almost no fruits.
Dapple Dandy can be fantastic but was bland some years.
Flavor King is always fantastic, the only problem is it is highly prone to rot.
Flavor Grenade I didn’t find very exciting in flavor.
My guess is most of it is climate related but probably some is tastes as well. A lot of people like Flavor Grenade and it ripened well etc, I just wasn’t a big fan. I’ll take a Lavina, Satsuma, Emerald Beaut, Weeping Santa Rosa, or Laroda any day over a Flavor Grenade.
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Last season I harvested sweet treats, candy heart, Nadia for the first time. All excellent in my opinion. Candy heart had some cracking issues but I was still able to eat them all. Candy heart was also a tad sweeter than the other two. Only had one Nadia plum but it was very good. I tend to favor very juicy plums and I enjoy the very sweet ones-which some people dislike. Looking forward to more this year (hopefully).
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How has candy heart been to grow for you in 5b? I’ve wanted to grow it but every nursery says it’s zone6. Do you have a whole tree of it or just a graft?
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Well, we do agree on this one. Wonderful plum here too.
I wonder if I will get any J. plums this coming season. I think we’ve been down as low as -9F but at least it’s all happening when everything is a hardened off as it can be… but it is the longest stretch of cold in memory.
I loved my Flavor Grenade. It was also occasionally sold by name so I got to compare mine to commercial. Both where great to me.
It’s a very good grower for me. No dieback, It had a lot of blooms last year but after thinning out the curc bitten ones I ended up with about 1/3 which came out to about a dozen. It put on more fruit than the sweet treat right next to it. Both were third year trees last year so I assume it’ll set more and more now. I have the sweet treat and candy heart very close together so I prune the middles hard and it ends up looking like one tree with two trunks. Both grow like weeds so far.
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Do you still have any of those cultivars? Wild idea try planting a Rosa Rugosa under the tree and let them grow into it it. The flowers release ethylene as they age. Or any flower that dies around the time your plums need to ripen.
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