Description

Semi-dwarf on Citation rootstock.

• Zones: 6-9

• Chill hours: 500-600

• Harvest: July-August

• Looks: Greenish-yellow skin, amber-orange flesh.

• Personality: Candy-like sweetness, wonderfully pleasing flavor.

• Facts of note: The Flavor Queen Pluot was one of the first introduced by the world famous hybridist Floyd Zaiger. Large green with green skin when first ripe turning to a blushed yellow as it gets syrupy sweet. Tasting this gems leaves no wonder why it catapulted the Pluot to worldwide notoriety. The flesh is a light amber orange almost melon like. A mid season ripening variety the Flavor Queen has a long hang time often eating well for over a month. Only getting better and better, sweeter and sweeter. Pair this royalty with the Dapple Dandy or the Flavor Supreme, but sorry it does not work well with the Flavor King … go figure? Also the Burgundy plum works well as a pollenizer as well as the Santa Rosa plum. A fast growing large tree keep the Flavor Queen under 10 feet with summer pruning for size control. This is one for dehydrating, which brings out the intense flavors and intensifies the sugars.

• Pollination: Pollenized by Dapple Dandy, Flavor Supreme Pluot or by a Japanese plum such as Burgundy. Not pollenized by Flavor King Pluot.

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