Geo Pride is pretty much freestone and is supposed to be a good pollinator. It would probably ripen for you in late August to early September.

Are you sure Emerald Beaut would ripen for you? It's pretty late in my greenhouse and I'm a couple weeks ahead of CA.

I thought of E B as an August plum that hangs late. Not so?

fruitnut - that photo of Geo Pride you just posted does look pretty freestone.

I've never noticed flowering overlap problems with any Japanese plums, even though they bloom at different times they all overlap in the middle. Even the super early pluots end up overlapping with the others. I just put in EB this year so I don't have direct experience with it, but I do have 20 or so different Japanese plum varieties blooming.

I am trying a bunch of new California Japanese plums, they are a total crap shoot in terms of how they do in hot humid weather, about 2/3 have been failures and 1/3 have been awesome. So far the only one looking bad of my new group is Padre, it gets horrible bacterial spot, about the worst I have ever seen. EB is very vigorous and has only minor spot.

Scott

It's August in central CA. I'd think you are at least a month later. Adam's County has a harvest chart that should be close for you. They show Flavor Grenade, for example, about 5 weeks later than CA.

Be patient, the chart is slow to load for me.

Here is a link that might be useful: Adam's County harvest chart

Great chart!

I should be fine if that's reliable - Stanley does very well here.

I picked Flavor Delight last week, and Beauty is just getting ripe now. Shiro is still green.

My thought is to cut the Hollywood and possibly the Methley off my 4/1 and replace them with freestone varieties.

Here's another harvest chart. This from DWN for the Modesto, CA area.

Here is a link that might be useful: DWN harvest chart

Dave Wilson Nursery lists Beauty, Burgundy, Late Santa Rosa, Nubiana, and Flavor King Pluot as pollinizers for Emerald Beut. If you're going to get a second tree for cross pollinization, Santa Rosa and Late Santa Rosa are supposed to be really good pollinizers for other Japanese plums. It may vary with area though.

Can anyone say how well Emerald Beauty and/or Geo Pride do in the upper Midwest climate?

My Emerald Beauty has been blooming later and later--this year even AFTER my Euro plums. Since it was all alone in bloom this rainy spring I was sure I would get no plums, however, somehow it set the most plums this year of any of my trees. So I would say don't worry about fruit set.

I can't give any opinions about fruit quality/ripeness in your area, but for me they are my favorite plum, and the fact that I can eat one a day for 2 months hanging on the tree is quite a bonus!

Carla in Sac

Could any one help me Emerald Beaut is a plum or plumcot? Because I'm living in Seattle which is very good place for growing plum but summer weather never hot enough for plumcot. and all the fruit tree informations here never mention about Emerald Beaut plum tree in western of Washington. Thank you for any of idea.