Cool! Thanks.

i think it might be a European variety or at least the wood looks like a purple plum. Remember not being able to tell the plants apart until the had fruit.

Main any case in the market for a sweet yellow plum :)

You said golden/yellow coloured plum.

Check these two from an Ontario nursery:

http://www.whiffletreefarmandnursery.ca/product_p/plu-ja003.htm

and

http://www.whiffletreefarmandnursery.ca/product_p/plu-e003.htm

As a yellow sweet as honey the Mirabelle de Nancy is another one, I never tasted the Metz.

Man those look so yummy.

Mirabelle ha. Was at the nursery and the tags didn't state which mirabelle variety. Interesting.

Had several cultivars on this one tree, last year the tree died, [old age] and lost this Mirabelle.

I'll be starting over again with scion this year.

Good call!! Must be a fave.

I'm hoping to find some mirabelle scion wood at the bc trust tester association AGM next month. We are running out of room.

Ordered some rootstock as I am currently trying to save what I think may be a green gage.

Had any luck grafting plums (and not budding)? Cambium is pretty darn thin! I've tried a small branch cleft, a whip and a couple side bark grafts. Fingers crossed. Giving this old plum one more year and possibly some renewed life.

Sorry. Bc fruit testers association

Anyone growing transparent or golden gauges? Just planted a green gauge...

I have a Cambridge Gage. It was slow to crop ( about 4 years) but since then has produces loads of delicious fruit every year except one when jackdaws removed all the baby fruitlets. It ripens quite early, mid to late August, which can be a problem if you tend to take holidays then. No pest or disease trouble so far. I can't remember when I planted it, but at least 15 years ago.

How does shiro compare to 'Mirabelle de Metz'? It's pushed heavily here as a very good yellow plum.

I'm interested to hear too! Thanks for posted that.

Shiro is a Japanese plum. Its larger, much more watery, has some tartness and bitterness in the skin but is generally pretty mild. Its an early, heavy, reliable producer. Its semi-cling stone. It can cook into a mild jam with a slight apricot flavor.

Mirabelles are smaller, sweeter, free-stone and meatier with less water and less tartness at the skin.

I prefer to eat Mirabelles. For yield and ease of growth, Shiro. But I have a strong preference for European plums over Japanese.

Thanks murkwell.

Thank you mirabelle it is!

Golbell,

Mirabelle is partly self-fertile. If you can get another E. plum like another mirabelle, gage or damson types, it'll help with better fruit production.

Or, you can plan to graft another E plum on it in a few year. Save yourself some space.

>>Had any luck grafting plums (and not budding)?<<

I do bark..grafting

I've tried some side grafting because it's early. Bark isn't quite slipping yet and put out some chip grafts today. Fingers crossed! This grafting thing is addictive...

And I do have an Italian plum, a green gage with some with Yakima or Bradshaw grafts in the works so lots of friends for mirabelle to play with :)

Love that photo Konrad! Hope one day have on of those multigrafts on our property nice job!

'Beauty' is an excellent sweet plum with yellow flesh. Can't speak to how well it would do in your locale.

http://www.davewilson.com/product-information/product/beauty-plum

I take back what I said about bark not slipping. Went to cleft graft and Apple and I could believe how loose the bark was. Unreal! It's a very early Apple though and we are having an early spring to boot. Everything else is still pretty dormant (plums) but not for long I suspect!!

Question about grafting. The buds on my pluot scion are starting to open up. Does that mean the graft has taken it is it just using the stored energy in the scion?

It could be stored energy...you need to see active leaf growth..about two weeks, then you should be out of the woods.

I don't quite know, but it mostly depends on the temperature/growing zone you are in. I would say that it has taken, but are buds opening on other trees and plants, or is the scion the only thing that is budding?

Oh, how I wish there was a grafting forum...

The plum is still somewhat dormant. I'm in zone nine. It's been about 10°C

Plum hasn't woken up but looks like it could start. The Palou lots produced by the end of June so they grow early in the spring

You want to graft when you see growth,..or at least good bud swell.

Yes. Buds swelling :)

Konrad....just saw your previous posted about timing. Thanks. I'll report back in a few weeks about it

This is what I'm seeing for the pluot growth.
The plums buds (the tree) are starting the break. Can see green now.

Just put an additional piece of parafilm on this morning. There is parafilm under the brown tape (that's difficult to see).

Tiny little scions. Small plum tree.

Bought a mirebelle tree and it's in the ground! Thanks everyone for your suggestions!
Unfortunately the nursery wasn't sure which mirebelle it was. They don't get that specific.
Guess I'll find out in a few years!

Italian prune plum
Greengage
Possibly golden gage (unknown variety)
Mirebelle

Should be wonder in years to come.

Konrad...do you need scion wood for mirabelle?

Thank you Globell, ..just got a stick and pretty sure it's the Nancy.

Lucky man! Sounds good. Always happy to share my stock here.