Thinking about adding one or two pluerry. Do any of them have any actual cherry flavor to them? How about brown rot and other diseases? Hoping for some cherry flavor that is not a brown rot magnet.
I have a Candy Heart Pluerry, which made fruit for the first time last year. Here are my notes: âextremely sweet, non-astringent, like a plum but with something extraâ. Not too sure about cherry flavor. I am very happy with my choice, and thinking about getting an additional pluerry variety.
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If someone had handed you one and you didnât know what it was. Would you just think it was a plum after trying it?
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I heard from @Girly and @RichSV and others here, out of first experience, that CHP is excellent; the best pluerry.
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I remember a lot of sweetness and not a lot of strong flavor. If handed to me, I would probably be confusedâŚnot a straight plum. Not tart enough to be a cherry plum. Not a pluot. Itâs hard to describe.
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Ivâe had a sweet treet pluerry for the last 4-5 years. Itâs consistently the âbestâ tree in the yard. Huge production (thousands without thinning), very edible early, long hang time, great tasting when ripe. i wouldnât say the cherry taste is pronounced, but itâs more than a plum.
Now my bavayâs green gage on the other hand looks great, same size, gave me two measly fruit in 3 years. 
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CHP is a sugar bomb. I like sweet fruits so I love CHP. CHP is larger and has a little more flavor than sweet treat pluerry. STP is also very good but again just high sugar, no other flavor. Both set plenty of fruit and need aggressive thinning. I also have the new pluerry from 2020, will post back on how that tastes⌠If you like fruits with more flavor and not just loads of sugar, you may not like Pluerries. I didnât get any cherry flavor on either but I donât have a refined palette either anything with sugar makes me a happy gal âŚ
And have not see brown rot on either pluerry.
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Well shoot, that did it right there!. As a fruit grower who values sweetness above all else, now I have to order a CHP next year! 
I have to say that everything you just said really sounds exactly like my tastes- unrefined pallet, mostly just happy with anything sweet. Makes me wonder if you have tried Saijo Persimmon- my favorite âsugar bombâ. ?
I have a sweet treat Pluerry that is on 2nd leaf and hasnât fruited. sounds like I got the wrong one!!!
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Sweet Treat is high sugar as well, based on your description, I think you will like it 
Iâll keep an eye out for Saijo
Everyoneâs palate is different. If given Flavor King at 20 brix and CHP at 27 brix and STP at 27 brix - My husband would rate FK as 1, I would rate CHP as 1 and my son would rate STP as 1! But all 3 of us would pick FK if its at 25+ brix
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Iâm not sure these work well outside of California. I tried Sweet Treat and Nadia and gave up after neither of them worked out. Neither of them ripened well. All the positive opinions on here are from California it looks like.
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No, it tastes nothing like a plum. The skin is not bitter like a plum. Candy Heart is at its best when firm and has some crunch to it. If it is left on the tree too long and softens, a few weeks longer, the flavor tastes past its prime, slightly mealy. It has a very sweet, mild, almost watermelon taste to it. I much prefer it to Flavor King which has a perfume type taste along with Sweet Treat that I do not care as much for. I never get tired of eating Candy Heart, kind of like eating cherries. Friends that I have given them to love them.
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Interesting, maybe I got lucky with sweet treat, itâs in a prime spot with nearly full sun. It eats like mild starbursts and I never tire of eating them, even 50 to 60 a day :).
Everyone perceives taste differently, that is how it is, nothing right or wrong with that. Our likes are different.
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Give it more time and youâll be rewarded. Euro plums need a couple more years to start producing well.
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