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Best temperate fruit variety in Southern California (low Chill)?
« on: December 31, 2023, 08:06:52 PM »
Im looking for ideas of what to graft on Lovell and Saint Juliane A rootstock. I have a lot of different fruits I can graft on them but looking for recommendations. So far my favorite temperate fruits (that can be grafted onto plum rootstock) that Im growing in San Diego area are: Leahcot (tastes like a giant nectarine size, juicy apricot), Sweet Treat Pluerry (one of the latest harvesting really tasty plum type fruits, like Aug, sept harvest), Pluot Flavor Grenade (another late ripening plum like fruit...able to harvest when all other plums are done). What do you recommend?

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Re: Best temperate fruit variety in Southern California (low Chill)?
« Reply #1 on: January 02, 2024, 02:54:38 PM »
How many chill hours are you getting over there?

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Re: Best temperate fruit variety in Southern California (low Chill)?
« Reply #2 on: January 03, 2024, 09:51:05 PM »
Maybe 200-400 chill hours on average.

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Re: Best temperate fruit variety in Southern California (low Chill)?
« Reply #3 on: January 03, 2024, 10:27:35 PM »
How long have you had Leahcot and has it been productive?

I bought a many many stone fruits this year to test out. I think my best bets are Flavor Grenade pluot, Splash pluot, Beauty plum.

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Re: Best temperate fruit variety in Southern California (low Chill)?
« Reply #4 on: January 04, 2024, 07:34:35 PM »
Ive had leahcot for 2 years. It was moderately productive last year for its size but like I said fruit was awesome. Most sites state leahcot need 500 chill hours....Appreciate the recommendations, I have flavor grenade and agree, it tastes great! Ill have to look up splash pluot and beauty plum.

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Re: Best temperate fruit variety in Southern California (low Chill)?
« Reply #5 on: July 29, 2024, 12:00:51 AM »
If you can pull sweet treet pluerry (I've read 450 chill hours), you should give Santa Rosa Plums a go. They taste great and you should have enough chill.
And something handy, this helps if you want to find roughly how many chill hours you get:
https://www.heritagefruittrees.com.au/chill-units/
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Re: Best temperate fruit variety in Southern California (low Chill)?
« Reply #6 on: July 29, 2024, 11:34:55 PM »
Pluot

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Re: Best temperate fruit variety in Southern California (low Chill)?
« Reply #7 on: July 30, 2024, 06:47:21 AM »
Also, give subtropical apples a go. You should easily grow varieties like Golden Dorsett, Tropical Anna, Tropic Sweet, Ein Shemer and others.
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Re: Best temperate fruit variety in Southern California (low Chill)?
« Reply #8 on: August 08, 2024, 10:30:59 PM »
Speaking of apple, the pink lady home grown are super good.  Also pears grow easy.
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Re: Best temperate fruit variety in Southern California (low Chill)?
« Reply #9 on: August 14, 2024, 07:16:45 PM »
Satsuma Plums are another suggestion. Same chill as Santa Rosa.
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