and is its seed/pit sterile or can i plant it? will it grow ok in mid connecticut?do you need 2 for pollinization?
2006-10-15 13:01:28 · 6 answers · asked by Anonymous in Home & Garden ➔ Garden & Landscape
I don't know anything about propagating it, but we look and look for these in the grocery stores...they are delicious...our very favorite "Plum"
why don't you search and type in propagating pluot pit....good luck
2006-10-15 14:21:52 · answer #1 · answered by Cassie 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Pluots are delicious. They keep well in the refrigerator, too. It's a plum-apricot. I don't think you can get the same fruit from the seed. I asked a question about getting bigger plums from my Satsuma plum tree (from a seed) weeks ago and Victory gave me a good answer (see below).
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If your tree was started from a pit from a commercial plum, then it was almost certainly a hybrid, and hybrids don't breed true.
This means that any tree grown from that pit will NOT have the characteristics of the parent plant, but of one of the two species crossed to GET the parent plant (the hybrid).
Bottom line: what you have is a variety of plum tree that is "programmed", if you will, to produce the size of fruit it is bearing.
And, yet...a little Miracle Grow couldn't hurt!
2006-10-15 21:37:16 · answer #2 · answered by Lynda 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
A pluot (plü-ot) is a tradename for a fruit developed in the late 20th century by Floyd Zaiger. In the United States, the fruit is known by most regulatory agencies as an interspecific plum[1]. It is a complex cross hybrid of plum and apricot, being ¾ plum and ¼ apricot in parentage. Pluots are widely available in grocery stores, and are sometimes marketed as a Dinosaur Egg (another trademark, belonging to a California grower who was one of the first to plant large acreage of the hybrid.)
The fruit's exterior fairly closely resembles a plum's. Pluots are noted for their sweetness (due to a very high sugar content) and for their intense flavor. Pluots are also rich in vitamin A.
"Pluot" is a registered trademark of Zaiger's Genetics.
2006-10-15 20:10:28 · answer #3 · answered by Music-Lover54 1 · 1⤊ 0⤋
A cross between a plum and an apricot. It grows on a tree. I wouldn't know anything about planting it, since I wouldn't eat it anyway!
2006-10-15 20:03:46 · answer #4 · answered by Stimpy 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
a plum
2006-10-15 20:08:59 · answer #5 · answered by seef 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
i think it is pluto spelled wrong?
2006-10-15 20:11:28 · answer #6 · answered by sam 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋