Taste test winner. Unique plum-apricot hybrid with sensational bouquet and sweet, spicy flavor. Reddish-purple skin, crimson flesh. Naturally small tree.
Flavor King Pluot® Interspecific Plum
Flavor King Pluot® Interspecific Plum
- Estimated Chilling Requirement
400 or fewer hours below 45°F - USDA Plant Hardiness Zones
6 - 10 - Pollination
Pollenized by Flavor Supreme Pluot® or Dapple Dandy Pluot®, Santa Rosa plum or Late Santa Rosa plum.
- Bloom Season within fruit type(see note)
late midseason - Harvest Season within fruit type
late midseason - Harvest Dates
August 11 to September 3(approximate for Hickman, CA) - Developed by Zaiger Genetics. U.S. Plant Patent No. 8026. (Expired)
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Additional Notes
1. Flavor King Pluot®, an interspecific plum, includes plum and apricot in its parentage.
2. In DWN formal taste tests, Flavor King has been one of the most consistently high-scoring varieties, as compiled in the 2014 DWN Fruit Tasting Report.
WHILE DWARFING ROOTSTOCKS HAVE IMPORTANT ADVANTAGES, ROOTSTOCKS SHOULD BE SELECTED PRIMARILY FOR ADAPTABILITY TO THE SOIL AND CLIMATE OF THE PLANTING SITE. For the 2019-20 planting season, Flavor King is offered on the following rootstock(s) (listed in order of quantity in production, largest quantity first):
Citation (semi-dwarf, 3/4 of standard size)
Myro 29C (standard)
