Monday, August 16, 2010

Pluots and Sugar Plums

Last week, I picked samples of three varieties of Pluots and our only European plum:



The yellow ones at the top are Flavor Queen Pluots:  Pure sweetness - too sweet for some people when fully ripe.  Clingstone.  This variety does not set fruit easily.  I only have a few fruits this year.

To the right are Geo Pride Pluots - tender, flavorful, sweet.  Semi-freestone when soft-ripe.

At the bottom are this year's first Sugar Plums - a small European variety which survives in our climate.  They can be dried into prunes without special treatment.  Sweet, like the typical prune-plum.

On the left are Dapple Dandy Pluots:  Bumper crop this year, as most years.  Firm, clingstone.

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