About me: I grow Jupiter grape which is about the tastiest vitis I have ever had the joy of eating!
I find that the Negronne fig is the tastiest ficus in the Northwest, bearing two crops per year.
As for plums, the best European plum I have found to date is the Brooks prune. Huge, sweet, late, and full of good flavor. I cannot imagine a prune with better characteristics, except maybe ripening earlier than late September.
I have two candidates for favorite Japanese plums: one being Santa Rosa. All too common and available, but hey, they flavor is all there!
My other fav is something I found locally called "peach plum". It is actually about the size of a peach, is yellow with light blush of red on the sunny side, yellow flesh, small stone, and the flavor varies with the fruit. Some have a hint of clove, others a hint of some other flavor I cannot ID, but truely wonderful. And yet others a good plummy taste. And this is all from the same tree. One year I forgot about some of these peach plums in the back of my frig for around 2 months. When I discovered them, they were in fine condition still, altho the subtle clove flavor had disappeared. Still good eating though! So this one has fairly good keeping qualities as well.
My zone is: Z8
I find that the Negronne fig is the tastiest ficus in the Northwest, bearing two crops per year.
As for plums, the best European plum I have found to date is the Brooks prune. Huge, sweet, late, and full of good flavor. I cannot imagine a prune with better characteristics, except maybe ripening earlier than late September.
I have two candidates for favorite Japanese plums: one being Santa Rosa. All too common and available, but hey, they flavor is all there!
My other fav is something I found locally called "peach plum". It is actually about the size of a peach, is yellow with light blush of red on the sunny side, yellow flesh, small stone, and the flavor varies with the fruit. Some have a hint of clove, others a hint of some other flavor I cannot ID, but truely wonderful. And yet others a good plummy taste. And this is all from the same tree. One year I forgot about some of these peach plums in the back of my frig for around 2 months. When I discovered them, they were in fine condition still, altho the subtle clove flavor had disappeared. Still good eating though! So this one has fairly good keeping qualities as well.
My zone is: Z8
GardenWeb Member: 2005-10-30