@DennisD
Dennis, please start a thread in February for this. I am sure many will participate.
Thanks for the work!
1 Like
A note on the Segundo I posted. It’s not Segundo. This strain has large red plums with apricot clingstone flesh. It stays firm and is fleshy when soft ripe. I grafted UFL Gulf Series plums (Gulf Beauty, Gulf Blaze and Gulf Rose). The growth habit is identical to the Gulf series plums and is quite distinct from any other plum I’ve ever seen. The Segundo bloomed super early, with my earliest blooming wild type chickasaw plum. In talking with the guy I got the scion from, I found out that it came from the scion orchard of the previous owners of Just Fruits and Exotics. I know that when UFL ended their fruit tree breeding program, Ted and Brandy from Just Fruits rescued some of the test strains. I think this “Not Segundo” is either a Gulf Series plum itself or a sibling to the Gulf Series plums. It comes closest to fitting the fruit description of Gulf Blaze, but the one glaring difference is that Guld Blaze is supposed to be free stone. The tree bloomed much earlier than Segundo should have. The fruit was quite a bit bigger than the fruit on Segundo should have been. The fruit was quite a bit firmer and then fleshier than Segundo should have been. And the fruit looked and tasted nothing like Robusto which Segundo is supposed to be very similar to. I really think that this is a sister to the Gulf series plums. Like Segundo, all the ones I grafted onto Tooles Heirloom Chickasaw cultivar grew light lightning bolts and are going to try to bloom this spring. The Not Segundo doubled in size again this year. It’s acting like it wants to become a huge tree.