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Satsuma plums
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Posted by
Itheweatherman USDA 8b, Elevation 2 (
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Sun, Jun 1, 14 at 21:17
| My satsuma plums are almost ready. |
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RE: Satsuma plums
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| I'm jealous. Do you have a pollinator for it? I have a beauty plum that is supposed to pollinate it but it doesn't produce a lot of flowers and they don't seem to flower at the same time. |
RE: Satsuma plums
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| Nice looking tree and fruit! They were my dad's favorite plum. They are really sweet. My Santa Rosa is the pollinizer. |
RE: Satsuma plums
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| Yes, the pollinators are my neighbor's plums, however, I don't know the variety. One is a green skined plum: extremely sweet, honey-like flavor, very juicy. The other is a red plum: Very hard, poor flavor, clingstone, not very juicy; Here is a picture. Can somebody ID this plum, please. |
RE: Satsuma plums
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| Satsuma is a solid red fleshed plum. Glad you like the fruit anyway. Who sold you the tree? |
RE: Satsuma plums
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| think he was talking about the red plum that is his neighbor's pollinizer... |
RE: Satsuma plums
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| First picture s my Satsuma plum; Second picture are my neighboor's plums (unknown variety)---would you ID this plum? I bought it at Home Depot about eight years ago. |
RE: Satsuma plums
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| It's color looks like Ozark Premier, but they are much bigger- huge things like baseballs. They also seem to be self thinning so failure to do that wouldn't explain smaller size. But this is based on how they do in NE NY. Sorry about the rush to judgement. I read these things while having my morning coffee at dawn- apparently the caffeine hadn't clicked in yet, or maybe it's just not working anymore. Satsuma is an excellent plum that I only found out performs well in the NE in the last five years. I thought it was a CA plum only where I used to eat them as a boy. . |
RE: Satsuma plums
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| The Satsumas in the top picture look nowhere near ready to me. They should hang all colored for a few weeks. If you don't taste clove in them they are not ripe yet. Satsuma is my favorite plum, it tastes great and is super easy to grow. I was ignorant that I should not be growing California plums when I planted it a dozen years ago; occasionally you get lucky. I was less lucky on the next-door pluot, my Flavor Supreme has set exactly one fruit for the second year in a row. Scott |
RE: Satsuma plums
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| Scott is correct about those Satsumas not being ripe. |
RE: Satsuma plums
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| They are now ripe...well the bottom ones. I'm thinking of making plum jam this week. |
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