Sugar Twist™ Pluerry
Sugar Twist™ Pluerry is one of the newest in interspecific plum cherry hybrids and has intensely sweet flavor. Sugar Twist™ is unique for its very early harvests, usually around early June and a month earlier than Sweet Treat! Fruit has red skin with amber flesh and the sugar sweet taste of a ripe cherry with the twist of plum you might expect from such a hybrid. Requires around 500 chill hours.
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Latin Name: Prunus salicina x Prunus cerasifera
Site and Soil: 1/2 day to full sun and well-drained soil.
Rootstock Description: A semi-dwarf rootstock for Plums and other stone fruits, Citation produces trees 12′-18′ in height or less.
Pollination Requirements: Pollinated by Emerald Beaut plum and most mid to late blooming varieties of Pluot®, Pluerry™ and Japanese plum.
Hardiness: Hardy to minus 10° F.
Bearing Age: 2-3 years after planting
Size at Maturity: 12-18 ft. in height.
Taste: Intensely sweet
Fruit Skin: Red skin
Fruit Flesh: Amber
Bloom Time: Late March
Ripening Time: July-August
Yield: 50+ lbs.
Pests & Diseases: Our plums are not bothered by pests. Bacterial Canker can occasionally damage trunks or branches. Symptoms of this disease are exudations of amber-colored sap. Spraying lime-sulfur or copper in the fall and early spring can help control Bacterial Canker.
USDA Zone: 6-9