san jose ca and salt lake city ut is where i have seen the most purple leaf cherry plums. they are a little sour but as a kid i ate them untill san jose started cutting them down so its bot like it was in the 80s with whole streets lined with them.
That must have been cool! I see them here and there, but not lining entire streets. They do attract a fair amount of pests, so maybe it was necessary to remove them.
When we bought our property near Portland Oregon there were 2 plum trees in bad shape. They both have quarter sized fruit. One is tart with yellow flesh and skin with red blush. The other has sweet red flesh with tart purple skin. I assumed they were probably some old root stock.
I have a Nadia cherry plum hybrid from Australia for 5 years now. To be honest, it tastes a lot like a Japanese dark plum. I greatly prefer my pluerry fruit (two varieties); much sweeter and complex flavor, even though the Nadia plum fruit is larger size.
I've heard of Nadia, but I haven't found it yet in the states. Thanks for sharing your thoughts on it. Nadia is a cross between a sweet cherry and an Asian plum. The cherry plum I'm growing has no actual cherry in it. It's all very confusing.
Seeds are not true to type, so you'd get something similar but not exactly the same as the tree it came from. I personally do not grow from seeds unless it's for a rootstock. I don't have the 4-7 years patience for seedlings to fruit!
@@fletcherfarm I'm trying a bunch of seedlings of all sorts of tropical fruit trees to see what I get, I'm also doing some grafting, but I'm not a commercial operation.
Correct. I'm in San Diego. My intention was to say Burbank settled in Northern California, and not in Burbank outside of LA (that's a different Burbank).
@@fletcherfarm I made that clarification because some of your viewers might want to visit the Luther Burbank Home & Garden in Santa Rosa which still has a small part of his test garden.
I have tried plain myrobalan as a rootstock a few years ago without much success. Now I use myrobalan 29c and marianna 2624, with more prolific growth from the later. I have japanese, "wild" and chickasaw varieties growing on them with the chickasaws growing on there own roots. Give me your handle or email address and we can swap some wood this winter if you wish. I am in 9b, very south louisiana and am envious of your growing conditions..
san jose ca and salt lake city ut is where i have seen the most purple leaf cherry plums. they are a little sour but as a kid i ate them untill san jose started cutting them down so its bot like it was in the 80s with whole streets lined with them.
That must have been cool! I see them here and there, but not lining entire streets. They do attract a fair amount of pests, so maybe it was necessary to remove them.
When we bought our property near Portland Oregon there were 2 plum trees in bad shape. They both have quarter sized fruit. One is tart with yellow flesh and skin with red blush. The other has sweet red flesh with tart purple skin. I assumed they were probably some old root stock.
I have a Nadia cherry plum hybrid from Australia for 5 years now. To be honest, it tastes a lot like a Japanese dark plum. I greatly prefer my pluerry fruit (two varieties); much sweeter and complex flavor, even though the Nadia plum fruit is larger size.
I've heard of Nadia, but I haven't found it yet in the states. Thanks for sharing your thoughts on it. Nadia is a cross between a sweet cherry and an Asian plum. The cherry plum I'm growing has no actual cherry in it. It's all very confusing.
How did it turn out?? I'm searching for them also
This past spring I grafted its pollinator. I didn't get fruit this summer as a result. Hopefully in 2025
Good video, could you have planted the seeds when you found them or because it's a hybrid that wouldn't work?
Seeds are not true to type, so you'd get something similar but not exactly the same as the tree it came from. I personally do not grow from seeds unless it's for a rootstock. I don't have the 4-7 years patience for seedlings to fruit!
@@fletcherfarm I'm trying a bunch of seedlings of all sorts of tropical fruit trees to see what I get, I'm also doing some grafting, but I'm not a commercial operation.
Can you freeze cherry plums with their seeds still inside? I got 5 lbs organic from a neighbor
I've never tried freezing. They never last long enough for that.
Luther Burbank settled near Santa Rosa CA Sonoma county, not near Sacramento.
Correct. I'm in San Diego. My intention was to say Burbank settled in Northern California, and not in Burbank outside of LA (that's a different Burbank).
@@fletcherfarm I made that clarification because some of your viewers might want to visit the Luther Burbank Home & Garden in Santa Rosa which still has a small part of his test garden.
👍 I want to visit, too!
I have tried plain myrobalan as a rootstock a few years ago without much success. Now I use myrobalan 29c and marianna 2624, with more prolific growth from the later. I have japanese, "wild" and chickasaw varieties growing on them with the chickasaws growing on there own roots. Give me your handle or email address and we can swap some wood this winter if you wish. I am in 9b, very south louisiana and am envious of your growing conditions..