Sprite Cherry-Plum = P. salicina × P. cerasifera cultivar.
I potted these from bareroot today in between rain showers. They came from One Green World.
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i noticed fruitwood nursery has rooted starts of several cherry plums for sale if anyone’s interested. dont think they are hardy here.
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It’s funny how some nurseries are listing this as a hybrid between sweet cherry and Asian plum when it’s actually cross between “cherry plum” (Prunus cerasifera) and Asian plum. The official botanical name for this hybrid is Prunus ×rossica.
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I emailed them asking that they correct it.
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Here is their source:
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Hi Richard,
I have Ozark Premier grafted onto a limb of my cherry plum. What’s the likelihood that the CherryPlum could pollinate it to produce a different variety similar to sprite?
Dennis
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Good question! Zaiger is recommending a Japanese plum to fertilize Sprite. Historically I had nursery inventory of both Japanese plums, Sprite, and Delight (no double graft) and everything fruited. I’ve no information about Ozark Premier.
I will try to cover my Ozark premier flowers to allow me to cross them just for fun! Will let you know if I get something different.
Dennis
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It’s so weird information from Raintree.
Sprite thrives in most of the nation from USDA Zones 4-9 - its myrobalan heritage makes it unusually cold-hardy. As an Asian (salicina) by Eurasian (myrobalan, aka cerasifera) cross, it will pollinize with our other Asian plums. Although myrobalan plums are commonly known as “cherry plums” (due to the fruit’s small size), this is NOT an interspecific plum/cherry cross. Only 400 chill hours needed.
I ordered Sprite and Delight on the same tree.
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Hi Vincent, how and where were you able to order a custom graft of Sprite and Delight on the same tree?!
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@Number2 I ordered back in September.4th 22. From Bay Laurel nursery. 2 N 1 cherry plum on citation $42.95. I got it in early January 23.
Now available @
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@Vincent_8B Thanks Vincent! I am lookin at Bob Well’s website now, but am tempted by the Emerald Beaut, which including shipping is the same price as One Green World (but out of stock). 
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I like inexpensive but I won’t do cheap.
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I also bought a black sprite and white sprite, i thought it was something like a pluerry.
Ozark is famous for being a really high quality plum, any update on your crossing?
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@Heldervalente
I’ve not heard of “Black Sprite” nor “White Sprite”. Consider starting a new thread discussing them.
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I grafted sprite into three different chickasaw plum cultivars this spring. All three of them have taken.
Chickasaw cultivars can make 20’ trees, so I’m fairly sure that the root system will support the weight of the mature tree. It would probably make a bigger tree if grafted into Mariana 2624. But I didn’t have any Mariana suckers left when I got the scion sent to me.
This particular individual is high grafted on the chickasaw rootstock I’m convinced that high grafting a potentially disease susceptible scion onto a highly resistant rootstock can add a little disease resistance. At least the scion is further away from soil born pests and pathogins and is less likely to get hit and scarred up lawnmowers. We shall see how it does in SE Georgia.
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I would like to hear more about what is meant by white vs black sprite.
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Yesterday we picked this year’s sole fruit from our two potted trees. Sorry, no picture (chagrin). It was almost a perfect sphere about 1.5" diameter, very dark purple skin and dull amber flesh with a few purple veins. The seed is relatively small, not freestone but not entwined in fiber either.
Janet thought it was very good. Among plums it is my favorite but perhaps not yours. The skin is less tart than many plums although it is definitely sub-acid. The pulp is less juicy than one would expect from a Japanese plum but not lacking either. The pulp flavor is excellent by my tastes.
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