Plum Crosses
Some interesting crosses between apricots and plums have been developed over the years and even between plums and other stone fruits such as cherries! Japanese plums can also provide cross-pollination.
1.25-2m (4-6') bareroot trees

Photo courtesy of Raintree Nursery

Pluot : FLAVOR SUPREME® Dwarf (Krymsk 1) (Orchard Grade)

Name: Pluot : FLAVOR SUPREME® Dwarf (Krymsk 1) (Orchard Grade)
SKU: 152-3941-2
Price: 49.95 CAD
Availability: InStock

$49.95

In stock

An 'orchard grade' is a tree that may be somewhat shorter, slightly crooked, or a bit scratched, or for some other reason is not a perfect front lawn specimen. These trees will work just as well in an orchard as a first or number one would, since they still produce the very same fruit.

Another winner from Zaiger Hybrids in California, Flavor Supreme® is the first pluot of the season to ripen and as one grower put it - "The most coveted early fruit in our orchard." Greenish-purple mottled skin covers the rich, honey sweet, burgundy-red flesh with dribble off-your-chin juiciness. Like all pluots, Flavor Supreme® boasts a substantially higher sugar content than either a plum or an apricot can attain on it's own. It will cross-pollinate with other pluots or a Japanese plum such as Santa Rosa.

NEEDS A POLLENIZER | ZONE 6 | HARVEST: EARLY AUG

Rootstock

Dwarf

Pollenizer

Needs a Pollenizer

Zone

Harvest

Early Aug.

Rootstocks

G41 Dwarf

(2.5-3.1m/8-10ft)

G935 Small Semi-Dwarf

(3.25-4m/10-13ft)

G969 Small Semi-Dwarf

(3.25-4m/10-14ft)

G30 Semi-Dwarf

(3.6-5m/12-16ft)

G890 Semi-Dwarf

(3.6-5m/13-16ft)

Pollenator definitions

Some trees and many berry plants are SELF-FERTILE ̶means the insect pollinators or even the wind can pollinate the blossoms without the need of a second tree.
NEEDS A POLLENIZER ̶ means another tree of the same type or kind but a different variety must be blooming nearby at the same time.
EXAMPLE A Liberty apple and a Wealthy apple can cross-pollinate. Two trees of the same variety ie: ̶ 2 Wealthy apples, cannot cross pollinate because they are genetically identical.
Other trees are marked as SEMI-FERTILE. These will set fruit without a second tree. However they will often bear more, and sometimes larger fruit if another variety of the same kind of tree is nearby.
You can select 2 different trees of the same kind marked as NEEDS A POLLENIZER or plant one of those along with one SELF-FERTILE or one SEMI-FERTILE. Also consider ripening times ̶ a Goldrush apple might not start blooming before a Pristine is finished.