Description
Yellow fruited cherry plum. Delicious 3cm sized fruits festoon these feral trees. It was covered in heavenly sweetly scented flowers in March making it easy to spot. This summer we were awarded with a bounty despite the months long drought and multiple heat domes. Small leaves. Rounded form no more than 10m tall and just as wide. Pick fruits when they start turning yellow as they don’t stick to the tree when ripe. Does very well on forest edges and along the beach front. Used as rootstock for many domestic plum cultivars. This is a new grove of strong growing hardy trees appear to be free of all visible signs of disease including black knot.
- Seed Count: 10-12
- Collection Date: August 2024
- Hardiness Zone: 4-8
- Preferred conditions: Full to semi sun; humus rich acidic soil
- Height and Width: 7m x 5m
- Germination test type: float
- Family: Rosaceae
How to germinate Prunus cerasifera seeds:
Like its peach, apricot, and almond kin, soak seed in hot tap water so that tiny bubbles arise from the hydrating shells. Do this several times over the course of two days. Let the water cool between treatments. Seed should sink or sit heavy on water surface. Warm stratify 30-60 days to mimic the “last of summer” weather. Then cold stratify 120 days. Then germinate at 25C, higher temps might cause deep dormancy. Seed might need light. I always germinate this genus via baggie sowing with great success (see our upcoming’baggie sowing’ article under Seed Starting). Use deep pots or a well dug nursery bed. I always use deep pots (5 gallon tall size) for good root development so there is no trauma in transplanting to its final position. Don’t let seedlings dry out or freeze during the germination process or in its first few months of life. Like peaches and almonds, sometimes they can be stubborn to sprout so another round of cold stratification might be needed. That’s just the nature of the beast. These seedlings are just as strong as their early sprouting kin.
Reviews
There are no reviews yet.