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.
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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