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Pleurry!

I have pleurry for the first time! The fruits are the size of a cherry and look like a cherry. The skin turns reddish purple like a plum/cherry when ripe. Texture is crunchy-ish like a plum. Taste is sweet like a good cherry. Definitely recommend this tree. I hand pollinated the tree. I don't know how many chill hrs this needs but we hardly got any this yr in Phoenix, AZ

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That looks amazing! I have two pluots and one aprium I planted 3 months ago, no fruit this year but they are amazing growers, I'll post some pics soon.
You can always put plants that need chill hours against a wall that doesn't get winter sun for extra chill time. That's what I did for my pluots and apples.

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How about throwing ice around the tree. Have there been studies on just chilling part of the tree.

Not sure, but Dave Wilson's nursery has an experimental plot where they grow high chill apples 600-900 chill hours with only about 100 chill hours total, they get fruit and plenty of growth.

Pluots and an aprium
I just pruned then a week ago, about a foot on all sids.

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Looks great. I have a Sweet Treat Pluerry I put in the ground this year. Worried about the crosspollenation.   I have a Santa Rosa and Bruce plum along with Flavor Grenade, Flavorosa and Flavor Finale as potential pollenators.

What did you hand pollenate it with?

I didn't get the chance to pollinate either of them, for some reason they didn't flower this year... but I grafted two varieties onto the flavour king and the flavour grenade, as well as two varieties onto my aprium, don't remember which varieties they were off the top of my head, I do know that they were cross pollinators that shared flowering times.
Next year they should go crazy.
Did your pleurry surprise you with how fast it grew, so far I'm blown away with the three I put in ground this year.

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Originally Posted by flyingbeekeeper
Looks great. I have a Sweet Treat Pluerry I put in the ground this year. Worried about the crosspollenation.   I have a Santa Rosa and Bruce plum along with Flavor Grenade, Flavorosa and Flavor Finale as potential pollenators.

What did you hand pollenate it with?

Do you have a favourite yet, or one you're most looking forward to?
Flavorosa is one of the grafts on my flavour king.
It looks like you have the pollination covered.
Would love to see some pics of your trees.
Sweet treat is on my list, probably going to wait till September to get one thought.

I thought there was only one variety of pleurry and im not sure what kind mine is. Basically i dont have a pollinator because the burgundy plum graft onto my tree didnt work. So...when mine was in bloom there was another plum tree in the vicinity that was also in bloom. It's the kind that has black/purple leaves. I have no idea what tree that pollinator is but it looks like a commin plum tree and it blooms every where but i had never seen fruits. In the dead of night, i strolled by and plucked off a few flowers and then went and pollinated my tree. I was pretty certain it wouldnt work, so it surprised me thay i had fruit this year. The fruit is really good too i think this is the 3 yr for this tree. First year, i thought it was a goner because after planting it, all the leaves fell off as it got really hot. Surprised it came back to life the following spring. It hasnt grown that fast for me. It's still on the low medium size.

Hope to get some more of those low chill fruits from that nursery that was mentioned.

I have a sweet treat pluerry that has been growing in my backyard for about 3-4 years. It has been productive even when I received only 150 chill hours. I imagine it is pollinated by just about any plum or pluot. The downside is that it tastes like a small ordinary plum. I have about 10 pluots/plums and they all have much better tasting fruit.

Mine tastes like a cherry but texture like a plum.

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