Honestly I think pluot are such a new plant breed there is very little information on them yet. I think if we are talking about any of these hybrids there is no denying that the hybrids are new to the scene and little is known yet about them. I believe Dave Wilson Nursery does not even list zones for most of the pluots. Some pluots and pluerry I cannot even find for sale. I believe there is a pluot or pluerry drew51 really likes and has mentioned called something like fiesta and I cannot find it for sale for the life of me.
Also just looked it up on Dave Wilson website. Most pluot seem to have a 400-500 chill hour listing but some are listed 600-700 and 700-800.
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I tasted some pluerry at the farmers market, they are sweet and small. So I ordered one pluerry that has the lowest chill hours, I did get 3-4 fruit this year but they are not small size, which is very weird, they are the size of the regular plum.
I got a pluerry a few years ago from King Soopers (our local Kroger) they were certainly good. I have the fruit punch pluerry. Pluerry is one of the fruits people canāt seem to figure out if it is zone 5 or zone 6. Both Raintree and One Green World say zone 5 and Grow Organic Peaceful Valley and Dave Wilson say zone 6. I recall it tasting similar to a Japanese plum but sweeter kind of like a pluot. In fact I recall it being very similar to a pluot. Weirdly enough it is September and I have not seen pluerry for sale yet at my local King Soopers. I have seen pluots all season but not pluerry.
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They donāt sell them at my local supermarket, they are sold at the farmerās market.
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One is tnnursery.com
They are wholesale, meaning you have to buy a bundle of 10 of one kindā¦but the price is 3 to 7 dollars per apple tree. Other companies in central Tennessee offer good pricing too.
Then, thereās Century Farms and a couple other NC nurseries in the 24 dollar range offering 100 or more varieties.
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Sounds like my story. Here is mine. I lost the central leader to fireblight one year (I know itās supposed to be resistant) and it has a lot of grafts. The grafts will probably bear before the tree. This is a semi dwarf rootstock. Unsure which. Those long unruly branches are grafts I hope to share next year.
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Wolf river is very slow to produce here as well.
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I see the resemblance (though yours has had more water and fertilizers than mine)!
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My guess is M111, like mine.
The root sucker is a clue.
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Often when there are only a few fruit, they get much larger than otherwise. On the flip side, overbearing usually leads to smaller fruit.
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You are not kidding about the low quality. They are picked early when they are as hard as wood. I like to joke that if you find a piece of high Brix fruit at the supermarket, it is probably a mistake. They could have pumped more water into it to increase yield.
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Like I said my first pluot was super wrinkled but was as sweet as a cherry. Then I tried the regular looking pluots and they were not nearly as sweet. A good pluot is super sweet but in my experience few from the store will taste like that.
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Let them sit several days or even weeks. You may be surprised how good the plums get eventually.
Went to the tnnursery site. Their trees are cheap. Less than $10 for a 4 footer. Then I found the catch. You have to blow $500. Wish I had known about that years ago.
Blueberry mentioned it was a wholesale website. Dave Wilson is the same way. I remember to order from them you have to order something like 10 trees of a massive caliper size that would be super expensive or buy 25 trees. Wholesale nursery generally are more so starting trees and selling to nurseries and the nurseries you buy from are just middleman making a profit. A lot of the trees places like Grow Organic Peaceful Valley, One Green World, Bay Laurel Nursery and Raintree are buying from wholesale people like a Dave Wilson and just shipping it out to you. 500 dollars is a lot for a random person unless they are starting their entire orchard that year. To a nursery who is just acting as a middleman eh that 500 dollars seems like a ok price. Trees Of Antiquity propagate their own trees from my understanding. In my experience many online nursery also tend to congregate in certain areas. Native Foods Nursery, One Green World, Burnt Ridge Nursery and likely a lot more are in the Oregon/Washington area. A state or two rate below those is CA where Trees of Antiquity, Grow Organic Peaceful Valley and Bay Laurel is. I believe Myrobean Nursery Cummins Nursery, Double A Vineyards and Nourse Farms all are in the New York and New Jersey area. In fact I think a decent amount are in Ithaca NY. I think there is just some spots that are more profitable to grow and sell plants.
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Had I known about that when I first started I would have blown the $500.
Many of these websites use things like Zaiger which simply means it is a Dave Wilson patent. The Zaiger family is a family of plant breeders that works along side Dave Wilson to create new and approved varieties. You hear about a lot of them as they are quality. The Weeping Santa Rosa, pluot, spice zee nectaplum and many others was created by the Zaigers and is sold on the Dave Wilson site. In fact I believe some sites have the Dave Wilson logo on their photo. Most of these wholesale websites will flat out tell you that you need to buy a lot and like I said most people are not buying that amount. Like I said Dave Wilson states how many trees on their website are for sale if you want to go straight to them too. I was wrong about it being 10 trees from Dave Wilson I guess it is 150 trees from Dave Wilson or 500 grape vines Buying from DWN | Dave Wilson Nursery
Tallest limb, right of center, is that a red fleshed apple? My guess is it is.
