We always grow Wessel's Purple Pride. It's an elongated, paste type. Pretty sure that it's not considered a plum variety, but it is very prolific and great for canning. It's a cross between Cherokee Purple and Green sausage with small seed cavities. We love it!!

I like Polish Linguisa.

How long is your season? I think Opalka is an ~85 day variety. I've read great things about it, but I haven't tried it, yet. I imagine it must produce a lot when it starts to produce. It's got large fruits.

I'm trying Polish Linguisa, Sausage, and Green Tiger, this year (first time for each variety).

I've tried Roma, Oroma, Martino's Roma, Black Plum, Maglia Rosa, Scary Larry, Kara Market, Graham's Good Keeper, Porter, at least four of my own unique types, and maybe some others, as well as lots of pears, if you want to know about pears, too.

My favorite plum type for production of those has been Roma. Scary Larry and Oroma have production potential. Kara Market was the earliest. Maglia Rosa was the sweetest. IMO, Scary Larry was one of the best-tasting, along with Maglia Rosa, and my own unique types, followed by Kara Market and Black Plum. Scary Larry had by far the largest fruit, followed by two of my unique types, and Oroma and Roma. The others were nearly cherry-size. Roma was probably the most practical to plant (with both a compact plant and high production), although some of the others might have done a lot better in better conditions.

For pears, I like Yellow Pear, Red Pear, Chocolate Pear, Green Pear and Pakenham Pear for production. Green Pear is bigger than the red, yellow, and chocolate pears. Pakenham Pear is pretty nice in both production and larger size. Yellow Trifele is interesting, and larger, but it has always been mealy for me (not terribly prolific, either, and it got BER the second year I grew it). Beduin and Aladdin's Lamp didn't do so well the year I tried them, but they didn't have much room to grow, and they were probably over-watered. Medovaya Kaplya is extremely sweet. Cherokee Green Pear is a decent size with good flavor.

Green Pear got BER the second year, too (the reseeded plant that appeared to be Green Pear didn't get BER, but the transplant did).

Chocolate Pear was by far the earliest pear.

Of all the pears I've grown, I'm most likely to grow Pakenham Pear and Chocolate Pear again. I'd love to get Chocolate Pear crosses with larger varieties (Chocolate Pear is cherry-sized).

Chocolate Pear, Green Pear, Medovaya Kaplya, Cherokee Green Pear are my favorites for flavor.

Prunus domestica subsp. insititia, or sometimes Prunus insititia

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