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First Flavor King Pluot

14 years ago

All Asian type plums have set about 50 plums by their third season in my orchard. This wet season has cracked the mid to late plums pretty bad. The late ripening FKP has set only five plums but none have cracked. There were only American Hybrid plums to pollinate and I expect better FKP fruit set with several Japanese pollinators next season. I had footied four FKP and left one to color naturally. The late ripen fruit are getting holes from yellow jackets and they go for the sweetest ones. Lately I have been leaving dropped peaches on the ground and the yellow jackets are going after them. I picked the first FKP today because it was uncovered. It had dark burgundy color with whiteish speckles. It was hard and I thought it was unripe. The first bite was meaty and firm juicy too. The flavor was complex like the descriptions, I describe it as a delicious fruit punch flavor. Flavor King is aptly named. The tree is vigorous gets mild shothole and no disease but only grows to twelve feet.

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fruitnut Z7 4500ft SW TX
14 years ago
Hey ace, that's some good fruit growing to get anything from this variety in your climate. Major Kudos!! I have several friends that think my Flavor King are about the best going. I don't agree. Although they were pretty good this yr.

Have you tried Flavor Grenade? It sets much bigger crops for me.

The Fruitnut
alan haigh
14 years ago
Ace, my Elephant Hearts cracked like clay in drought as did Fortune. Methely not much and same with Shiro- we got a break from rain just as they ripened (I'm probably 50 miles from you).

Satsuma did not crack much although likewise the YJ's are becomming big issue. Time to start trapping.

Santa Rosa and Early Majic didn't crack at all and were quite good as was a numbered variety I have from Cummins that set huge purple fleshed fruit which ripened with and past Santa Rosa. I'm trying to get Cummins to propigate some more of this one-it is a wonderful plum for adverse conditions and almost immune to black-knot.

All the plums mentioned here fruit heavily most years and require ample thinning. Let me know if you want any wood.
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This is my first harvest of Flavor Finale on second leaf trees in my greenhouse. They set a good crop, not nearly as much set as Flavor Grenade but more than Flavor Treat my latest pluot. The fruit size is up to 2.75 inches long by 2.65 wide with a slight point on the tip, that's really big for a pluot/plum. Exterior color is a dark purple. The flesh is reddish near the skin and amber near the pit. Not freestone. Taste is very sweet with excellent flavor. There is a crunchiness near the skin but also quite juicy. This is the sweetest pluot/plum of the year and my overall favorite. The only fruit overall this yr that might have been better was Arctic Star nectarine and they were sensational, incredibly sweet. I had my best ever Flavor King pluots this yr. Some have compared the flavor of Flavor Finale to Flavor King. While Flavor King is more aromatic, to my taste and as grown in my greenhouse, I much prefer Flavor Finale. I don't think they taste anything alike. Finale is more of a traditional plum taste to me. My congradulations to Zaiger and Dave Wilson. All of the recently released fruit I've tried has been great. My favorite new release from last yr was Geo Pride pluot. Some people say plums are as good as the pluots. I don't agree at all. I've been cutting back all my plums and letting the pluots fill in the space for several yrs now. I still have about 8 plums. None compare to the best pluots. The Fruitnut
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theaceofspades
Original Author
14 years ago
Fruitnut, at the time I thought Flavor grenade would be too late so I planted the Flavor King pluot. ACN didn't have any info at the time. Still surprised there is no published research for pluots in the NE. I just added a Dapple Dandy and an Emerald Beaut. They are growing out extremely well. Now I have my late plum category filled to the max. So Don't temp me anymore with exquisite fruit tasting tales 8^)

Harvestman, got 5 marianna 2624 rootstocks growing. I know I will bud the Satsuma in a week or two. Early Magic is a seedling of Santa Rosa so it probably ripens at the same time right?

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