Oddballs, Combos & Crosses 2024
Asian Persimmons
Japanese Persimmons (Diosypros kaki) can grow 15’ – 30’ tall. They are valued for both their ornamental and fruiting qualities. They require full sun and can tolerate brief periods of drought but extended drought can kill them. Regular watering will support shoot and fruit development. Asian persimmons do not need pollination to set fruit, and do so on young wood, so regular pruning to maintain vigorous, young wood is advised. Our offerings are grafted onto D. lotus rootstock.
Fuyu Jiro: Known as “Apple Persimmon”, this is a medium, flat-shaped fruit that is still crunchy when ripe, non-astringent. The hardy, attractive tree is practically pest free. You can make tea from the leaves! Fall harvest. Self- fruitful.
Chocolate: Fruits are small to medium size, oblong, with bright red skin and sweet, spicy, firm, brown flesh with superb flavor ‑ the choice of connoisseurs. The name comes not from the appearance, but for the notes of cocoa in the flavor. Self-fruitful.
Prunus Combos
Fruit Cocktail 4-way Combo: Frost Peach, Puget Gold Apricot, Hardy Red Nectarine, Italian Prune, Ranier Cherry and Lapin Cherry. Mariana 2624 rootstock.
4-way Fruit Salad: Frost Peach, Puget Gold Apricot, Harcot Apricot, Hardy Red Nectarine, Nadia Plum, Shiro Plum. Mariana 2624 rootstock.
Intergeneric Prunus Crosses
Flavor Delight Aprium: This apricot x plum hybrid produces a fruit resembling an apricot but has a firm texture and sweet flavor all its own! One of the tastiest early-season fruits. Self-fertile but more productive when pollinated by another apricot variety. Citation rootstock.
Bella Gold Peacotum: This peach x apricot x plum hybrid makes a rounded fruit with fuzzy red-gold skin. Tart skin gives way to mildly sweet amber flesh for a delightful eating experience. Early-midseason bloom, ripens mid-late season. Naturally semi-dwarf tree. Pollinized by ‘Harcot’ Apricot. Citation rootstock.
Flavor Punch Pluerry: This plum x cherry hybrid boasts extremely high flavor fruit with orange skin blushed red, and red/orange flesh. Late ripening with a long hang-time extends your fruit harvest into fall. Harvest mid August through September. Pollenized by Pluot®, Pluerry® and mid-late blooming plum. Citation rootstock.
Dapple Dandy Pluot: You may know this fruit from the grocery stores where it is sold as a Dinosaur Egg Plum. This is a freestone plum x apricot hybrid with not just a unique speckled appearance, but a juicy, delicious flavor. Pollinize with Asian plum, such as Hollywood, Beauty, or Santa Rosa plum. Citation rootstock.
Nadia Plum Cherry: This complex cross of ‘Black Amber’ Asian plum and ‘Supreme’ sweet cherry yields a tastebud-tingling combination of summery plum flavor with an intriguing note of cherry. Larger than a cherry and smaller than a plum, the skin is dark red as is the flesh. The fruit is firm, sweet/tart and very juicy! Needs pollinization from another Asian plum. Mariana 2624 rootstock.
Quince (Cydonia oblonga)
Smyrna: Pineapple Quince is an attractive small tree with large cup-shaped pink and white flowers that yield generous crops of large yellow sweetly aromatic fruit with a flavor reminiscent of pineapple. Used widely for preserves and pectin. Self-fertile; ripens in late fall; deserves to be more widely grown.
