Plum Diamond Sweet

[JesusisLordandChrist]

My wife picked up a bag of diamond sweet plums. Pretty doggone good if you ask me.

Will sprouting pits amount to anything?

Thanks

[poncirusguy]

they should turn out well. You can graft a scion to your new seedling tree and have an exact duplicate

[evilpaul]

Mystery seedling or mystery rootstock…

[poncirusguy]

Use the seed grow tree to graft a twig from the mother plat so you have 2 identical fruiting tree.

[JesusisLordandChrist]

So i think i’m hearing go ahead and grow diamond sweet plums from pits. Then graft diamond sweet onto a suitable rootstock. Is that correct?

Thanks for all the replies.

[kokopelli5A]

The pits won’t come true. They might be pretty good, but not true. They might make OK rootstock.

Diamond Sweet may not be available to the public yet (under patent,) as a scion for grafting. Or it may be a trade name for a commonly available variety.

It’s fun to experiment. But is your goal reliable production of good fruit?

The percentage move is to find out from your local ag station what those varieties are and plant one. Plums need a pollinator, but there usually is one in most neighborhoods.

If you want to save a buck, buy a newly grafted tree a ‘whip’

[JesusisLordandChrist]

Its been 21 days (3 weeks) in the refrigerator, wrapped in a damp paper towel sealed in a ziplock baggie. I used vise grips to crack the pits/stones and remove the seeds. Looks like one seed is starting to root. I’ll stick them back in the refrigerator and check again in about another week.