A late season dessert plum cultivar. The white spring blossom is followed by medium sized, round yellow fruit, flushed reddish-orange, the skin covered with a light blue bloom. Very sweet, juicy flesh is pale yellow described as tasting of apricot and tangerine. Cropping season: mid September. Pollination group 3
2.5-4 metres
2.5-4 metres
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Tolerant of a range of soils as long as well drained, but prefers loamy, ideally slightly acidic soils pH of 6 to 6.5. Plant in a sunny, sheltered site. Flowers may be susceptible to spring frosts damage. See how to grow: plums for further cultivation details
Propagate by chip budding or grafting onto a rootstock for fruit. The rootstock will largely determine the vigour of the tree. Seed raised trees are of variable fruit quality and tree size
Prune regularly depending on how the tree is trained – see pruning plums. Train fan-trained trees in spring. Pruning established fans is carried out in early summer and after harvest
May be susceptible to plum aphid, red spider mite and winter moth caterpillar. The fruit can be damaged by plum moth caterpillars, wasps and birds
May be susceptible to peach leaf curl, silver leaf, bacterial canker, blossom wilt and honey fungus